Thursday, January 25, 2007

Dell 2407WFP Monitor

I finally broke down and bought a 24 inch LCD monitor for my home computer. This replaces my 19 inch Sony CRT, which was, and still is, a great monitor with vivid colors and sharp text. However, it is big and bulky. Thin is now in. This new, sleek, flat LCD monitor takes less desk space and give me much more screen space. In fact, the monitor is blinding me as I write this because there is so much white, even after turning down the brightness. Currently I have it connected to my computer with an analog VGA connector at an astounding resolution of 1920x1200. My graphics card has a DVI connector, but it won't work at this high resolution. I'll need to buy a new graphics card with more power. Just for the fun of it, I connected my Mac Book Pro to this Dell via the DVI, and the Apple immediately took advantage of the extra screen. What it does is let you drag windows off the right side of the notebook screen and they appear on the external monitor. How neat! So you have two screen to work with at the same time. The monitor also will tilt 90 degrees, and then you can adjust your computer to display in portrait mode. I'll probably not do this much, but it would be good for looking a long documents or web pages. The next step is to connect my old computer to the Dell so I can get rid of my 17 inch Sony CRT (anybody want it?). That will free up more desk space and make my computer room look less cluttered. Unfortunately, the Dell has only one DVI and one VGA, so I'll need some kind of external box to switch back and forth, if they make such a thing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Would luv to see some porn on that baby!!