Livin' Large
May. 20th, 2005 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaSo... A couple of months ago at GDC, my partner supposedly won a 23" HDTV. It finally arrived yesterday.
After a little fiddling around, we discovered it makes a swank monitor for my Mac. :) (The delicious irony here being that it was part of a MicroSoft X-Box giveaway and we've got Macs and a PlayStation. :)
Anyhow. Woo. Bright crisp display and it's huge. Not to mention it takes up a lot less desk space and makes the room a lot more open.
Of course, the resolution is lower than what I'm used to. I've been operating at 1600x1200 and this has a max of 1360x768. OTOH, I use 800x600 at work and.. For the most part this seems to be okay because of the layout.
I must also say that it makes SecondLife look pretty incredible. Not to mention the smaller screen size ups my framerate significantly. :)
All in all? I'm trying it for a few days. This whole 'modern' thing is turning into a bit of culture shock for me. The washer/dryer chirping happily at me was one thing, but when I have a monitor that can play TV in a window without bothering my computer at all and it's huge and thin and in my face AND it chirps happily when you turn it on. O_O I'm just not used to it. I'm used to my clunky old monitor squatting on my desk like an ogre with it's focus a little fuzzy and it's guns just slightly out of alignment so as to make me squinty-eyed.
I think the next step is to mount this on the wall above my audio keyboard and make some kind of fold-out for my computer keyboard and wacom tablet and then I'll take up half as much space as I currently do and have all my systems integrated into one incredibly geeky console. Animation disc/art desk to the left, computer/keyboard/tablet to center, and animation stand to the right. o_O For the short term though, I think I need to get used to this tek-nah-low-gee.
After a little fiddling around, we discovered it makes a swank monitor for my Mac. :) (The delicious irony here being that it was part of a MicroSoft X-Box giveaway and we've got Macs and a PlayStation. :)
Anyhow. Woo. Bright crisp display and it's huge. Not to mention it takes up a lot less desk space and makes the room a lot more open.
Of course, the resolution is lower than what I'm used to. I've been operating at 1600x1200 and this has a max of 1360x768. OTOH, I use 800x600 at work and.. For the most part this seems to be okay because of the layout.
I must also say that it makes SecondLife look pretty incredible. Not to mention the smaller screen size ups my framerate significantly. :)
All in all? I'm trying it for a few days. This whole 'modern' thing is turning into a bit of culture shock for me. The washer/dryer chirping happily at me was one thing, but when I have a monitor that can play TV in a window without bothering my computer at all and it's huge and thin and in my face AND it chirps happily when you turn it on. O_O I'm just not used to it. I'm used to my clunky old monitor squatting on my desk like an ogre with it's focus a little fuzzy and it's guns just slightly out of alignment so as to make me squinty-eyed.
I think the next step is to mount this on the wall above my audio keyboard and make some kind of fold-out for my computer keyboard and wacom tablet and then I'll take up half as much space as I currently do and have all my systems integrated into one incredibly geeky console. Animation disc/art desk to the left, computer/keyboard/tablet to center, and animation stand to the right. o_O For the short term though, I think I need to get used to this tek-nah-low-gee.
