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Replacing the fried monitor (Rose's little monitor doesn't cut it for all-day working...)
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After being cursed one evening (not by me, I was hoping to get another 6 months out of it) my monitor refused to turn on the next morning. It was a nice $1600 Sony G500, now quite old, and beginning to fail in multiple ways (and, honestly, becoming quite hard on the eyes). Anyway, need to get a new monitor now. I'm tempted by the 24" ones (my eyes could use the rest), but I'll likely just go for one of the $500 20" ones.

I'm thinking about the Viewsonic VX2025WM, mostly based on the Ars Technica recommendation for the "Hot Rod" box. I don't know the ats-systems people, I've normally gone through either CanadaComputers.ca (now defunct, apparently) or TigerDirect.ca. Oh well, hopefully not scammers.

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  1. Leigh Honeywell

    Leigh Honeywell on 07/11/2006 1:13 p.m. #


    it's canadacomputers.com :)<br />
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    also, viewsonics are awesome.

  2. Mike Fletcher

    Mike Fletcher on 07/12/2006 8:24 a.m. #


    Silly that, yes, it is canadacomputers.com and they do still seem to be around. They even have both of the models I'm considering in-stock. I'm considering the Samsung SyncMaster 204B, mostly because of the higher resolution and non-widescreen aspect ratio. Also, it doesn't have built-in speakers, which seem kind of pointless to me given that I have a decent speaker system hooked up already. Thanks for the clue-stick upsides.

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