| Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
13:37 - I Can See For Miles...
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Kris decided to splurge a bit and kick up his home computing horsepower a bit (he's stitching together some 2.5GB (in 170 separate panoramas) of contiguous photos into a series of linked, navigable QuickTime VR movies of our building, and the old 450 is blowing hard under the load); yesterday, he ordered one of the current "Wind Tunnel" G4 towers, the dual-gigahertz kind, which came to a nicely reasonable price via a friend's employee discount.
He also ordered this, which arrived today (!):
Hey, what the hell, right? Three side-by-side code pages, or every palette in the world open at once, eh? He and I both have 22" Cinema Displays from our initial purchase back in early 2000; they're still extremely fine monitors, but this new HD one will make it look primitive by comparison. (No, I'm not getting one for myself. Yet.)
Unfortunately we can't set it up here at work to test it out, because we don't have any ADC-equipped machines handy. Except one guy upstairs with a new tower; we cornered him in the parking lot and asked if he would let us set up the monitor to see how it looked. Sure, he said-- he'll throw himself on that particular grenade. Oh, the hardship...
So what's Kris going to do with his old 22" Cinema Display? Why, dual-monitor, of course. Over 3500 pixels of wide-wide-wide-screen goodness.
Hey, conspicuous consumption isn't dead...!
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