[CLUE-Tech] Monitors - was SuSE network install

[mlgjk at knaddison.com]

Quoting Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>:
> 
> On Sunday, Dec 21, 2003, at 15:26 America/Denver, Collins wrote:
> 
> > monitor resolution.  SUSE picked 1000x768 whcih is pretty much 
> > unreadable on
> > my old 15" monitor. Changing to 800x600 was no problem, but a few of 
> > the KDE
> 

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> 
> It's happily chugging away on the desktop machine now, and I didn't 
> spend the $300+ I thought I might end up spending on an LCD... call me 
> a cheapskate but I can get a lot of monitor for my money right now!  
> LCD would be nice, but... heck, this thing looks good and it is taking 
> up less space than the Samsung.

If you pay for your own power you may be penny-wise and pound foolish.  LCD's
use pennies of electricity per month vs. the dollars/month a CRT costs.  If you
pay your own electricity bill then an LCD can suddenly become a "2 year ROI"
investment.  Exact numbers of course depend on a couple different factors, but I
read an article about a Florida IT shop that did a comparison and found savings
of $8/month in electricity in addition to the increased happiness of their
end-users and presumed increased productivity from reduced eye-strain and...

Greg