I don't really care for LCD's, plus I don't have the money.
And I would LOVE to have the new Apple Keyboard, but like I said above, I'm broke.
And uh, that strip is a piece of duct tape. I was bored, put it on and haven't taken it off
you could buy a very cheap one, like an old dell 17 inch, or gateway 17 inch, but you dont care i guess, you could get your parents to lend you some money for the new keyboard!!
I think that CRT's provide a more even picture, they're more durable, easier to clean and cheaper as well. Plus I don't have to worry about people touching my screen. Touch it all you want, you're not going to harm it!
well, in 5 years, CRT's may just be history, and an LCD would be essential, more energy saving, they banned the Incadecant bulb in california, soon it may be the whole US, then they'll ban the CRT's in cali, then the whole US, they are more efficient, and if you think the colors are vivid enough for you, you can always cal brate it, a LCD will give you a lot of desk space to.
I'm the same about my iMac.. I don't really care who uses it touches etc... but I am like a hound when it comes to my MBP
well, you've got the new imac (like me!) that has a glass over the LCD, so if you touch the screen, you leave a fingerprint! what kind of mbp do you have, glossy, or antiglare?
Speaking of CRTs... I've spent the morning re-arranging mine!
Both CRTs were pulled from skips, both were legendary in their day, but both now have their issues. The left is a 20" Silicon Graphics (Sony Triniton tube) which doesn't go as bright as it should do, the right is a 21" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro (Diamondtron tube) which shows horizontal banding in line with bright contrast boundaries, which is probably just due to a dry solder join on the HD15 input board if I could be bothered to open it up & repair it!
Well, I will hook up one of my LCDs for my (little used) XP box, then neaten stuff up. A spot of lunch too...
(PS - I also have a 21" Sony Triniton TV in the other corner of the room, which I also pulled from a skip! It's become quite the past time since moving here, I picked up an old blue clamshell iBook yesterday).
sony trinitrons are good displays, even their CRT's, i used to have a sony trinitron CRT, it was HUGE, like 22 inch, big for a CRT, it was pretty good, my other dell CRT, was horrid, it was like 14 inch, and most CRT's are like that, but you have some pretty good ones there, you should try to get money for an LCD though
, you will save desk space, you seem very cramped there, an LCD would be a great investment, if you cant afford even an old dell 17 inch, ask your parents for some money, and pay them back later!!he has little space, unless he shoots holes in the desk for the wires to go through, he is pretty much hopeless at hiding wires
Do I really have to quote myself?
Mine's a 320GB (the silver one beneath it is also a 320GB Barracuda!). I'm a long time Seagate fanboy, but there are 2 things I dislike about the drive. 1.) it comes formatted as NTFS & 2.) the firmware power management has serious issues with Linux (& maybe Mac, though I've never used mine on my Mac) & can only be turned off via the Windows software (until somebody wrote a bashscript to modprobe it). Still, spending a couple of minutes disabling the feature is definately worth it for the Barracuda reliability & the 5-year warranty.
Anyway, a spot of lunch & some progress;
The messy cable on the left trackball can't really be helped, it has an extension cable on it so I can control music/movies/anime from my bed (which I'm standing on to take the photo, speakers are just to the left & right of the photo, you can see the edge of the right one with it's wire hanging down & the cable for the left one taped to the carpet).
so you tryed to hide your wires to the left?? still does seem pretty messy
, seagates are good HD's
