My secondary monitor up and died on me Wednesday night. It came quite suddenly, with no warning. One moment she was happily displaying email and photos, and then there was a click, and she was gone; her brightly glowing screen and cheerful green power indicator light were no more. Resuscitation attempts involving swapping out power supplies and signal cables failed, and her warranty time had passed. She has been set aside for now while we consider whether to pay someone to try to repair her. If not, RIP my beloved PL2010M. You will be dearly missed… by me, and also by your younger brother, PL2011M, who is carrying on bravely in your absence .
After much researching, and a spreadsheet involving brain-melting math on different monitor specs, I determined that a replacement probably isn’t in the budget right now. I don’t want to spend money on a monitor that has less than 12” in vertical viewable screen area. It seems that in recent years, the 4:3 format in large sizes has become relatively obsolete in favor of the 16:9 and other widescreen formats. Since I have dual monitors, I don’t need width as much as I need height! And in order to get the height I want in a widescreen, I would have to go to at least a 25” monitor. I don’t know if that would even fit on my desk next to the other monitor, and it’s definitely out of my price range.
So, for now, our old ginormous Dell CRT has been dragged out of the closet and pressed into service. There is no such thing as white on its display; at full brightness, light gray is as close as you get. And the text at my normal working resolution has a headache-inducing fuzziness. I’m hoping I can find a slightly lower resolution that won’t hurt my eyes.
Possibly the worst part though is that, due to the physical depth of the old CRT monitor, I’ve had to pull the flat screen monitor forward several inches. I feel like the monitors are too “in my face”, kind of like sitting in the front row at the movie theater. Not to mention that there’s now not nearly as much room for me to make a mess on my desk! LOL And before you’re impressed that it’s actually clear right now, all the stuff that was there was just transferred to a box and a card table to make room for me to set everything up. :-b
This shot gives a better idea of just how much bigger the CRT monitor is…
At least there’s a window there to give me a couple of extra inches to work with. :-b
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