Dell Selling 30" Flat Panels 417
bling..bling writes "Apple is not the only company selling 30" flat panel monitors. Dell is now offering a 30" flat panel display that has a native resolution of 2560x1600 and sells for $2,199. Just like the apple 30" display you do need a dual link DVI video card to drive this massive beast. This monitor also sports four USB ports and a media card reader.
I've been waiting for Dell or someone else to release a 30" display and hopefully bring the prices down. I'm tired of the dual monitor thing, I want one display device on my desk, just make it a very large device.
See the details on Dell's web site on the new Dell 3007WFP 30-inch widescreen digital flat panel monitor."
4, 19 inch screens (Score:2, Insightful)
Having several monitors gives you the ability to focus on the central screen while some applications (monitoring,chat,email, etc...) or on the side.
These monitors can be moved placed on top of eachother turned to a collega, etc.. so they provide you much more flexibility.
Also when one of the 4 screens dies thats not a big deal when your massive 30inch screen dies you have nothing.
smaller resolution (Score:4, Insightful)
Perhaps you need to adapt? (Score:3, Insightful)
Also, the geometry of the screen may be an issue too. I remember when the first generation of "flat" CRT televisions came out, people used to curved monitors thought that the image looked inwardly curved...
You may not have much of a choice -- CRT's are getting much more difficult to source these days, and when your current one dies, you may not even be able to buy a CRT that suits you!
Re:smaller resolution (Score:3, Insightful)
Any decent OS or web browser will let you scale up font sizes. The end result is that your text is the same size, but smoother. The only problem occurs when sites do stupid things like make navigation bars images of text.
Images, I admit, are another matter. I suppose the best thing here is to switch to all vector graphics that can be scaled up smoothly just like fonts.
Re:Two heads are better than one! (Score:3, Insightful)
The issues you bring up are window management problems. They're things that should be solved in software, rather than requiring you to spend good money to reconfigure your hardware. Optimally, switch to linux and configure the window manager's behavior until you're happy, possibly start off with a tiling window manager like ratpoison [wikipedia.org] or something.
Also, widescreen threw me for a bit of a loop... webpages aren't designed to be viewed at 1920 pixels wide, and aren't designed for 16:9 / 16:10, and some of them end up being much harder to read than you'd think they would. I end up wanting software to "halve" the monitor so it acts like a left and a right half. So if you're really really stuck on using hardware to solve the window manager issues, I'd suggest not getting a widescreen.
Also, widescreen really is the future: if you have a 50" widescreen monitor, and you sit a foot or two away from it, you don't need two of them. A widescreen monitor is shaped to fill your perhipheral vision well. We just need window managers to catch up now (especially Windows, if that's something we'll be forced to use at work).
Lame! (Score:2, Insightful)
dell can gain some respect from me and other true computer users/builders when they leave the trifecta from hell (dell, intel, microsoft) and stop manufacturing their own crappy parts and stick in quality products like antec and corsair.
Flaimbait? Not if you're a true computer tech.
Re:Well too bad for the rest of us (Score:3, Insightful)
One possible reason for such a headache is if your vision is slightly off. As you concentrate on the screen your eyes try to focus, but since they cannot do it fully the tension persists. The effect is pretty sensitive, so some people can read screens fine and are not aware their vision is in any way off, but get a headache if they do it for several hours.
So I would suggest trying a new pair of glasses or lenses.
Re:Here's one reasons to buy the Dell over Apple.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Imagine if no one bought HDCP monitors. When Vista came out, it would blow up massively--people would be furious at having to either use really crappy video or buy a new monitor.
Re:Dead Pixels Worries (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Calibrator vs Dell vs Apple (sorta) (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Calibrator vs Dell vs Apple (sorta) (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Here's one reasons to buy the Dell over Apple.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Small thoughts come from small minds (Score:2, Insightful)
Everyone is still thinking way too small. I've been thinking that I want something like HDTV on a computer with a 60 inch screen but that's still too small. So now I'm thinking about an interface consisting of a ceiling mounted projector with images on the wall from floor to ceiling. I want to be able to walk around and still see images no matter where I am in the room so I guess that means the projector needs to be on the other side of the wall in a closet. At work we have a 6 monitor solution that displays the status of servers in datacenters around the world so now I'm thinking a 6 monitor solution is barely an acceptable minimum.
My human machine interface should be something like my home theatre... A big screen, a powerful 7.1 surround sound system and a comfortable recliner. I don't want to be bothered with a mouse, pointing my finger and uttering a few sounds should be sufficient. Waving my empty 12 oz bottle at the screen should be enough for my computing assistant to know that a refill is in order.
Though I make a living working with machines I maintain that computers and robots are here to serve me and answer my every beck and call.
D. B. Dweeb
Re:Two heads are better than one! (Score:2, Insightful)
A lot of smart geeks have questionable hygene habits and have sex with flowers. What is your point?
Eh, maybe. I think that "smart geeks" (vs all the chicken head eaters out there) learn to use their enviorment to their best advantage -- or they re-code their enviornment. They don't whine about what what is out there and then, when presented with a work around, make some broad appeal to an imagined majority to justify their personal issues.
Re:smaller resolution (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Two heads are better than one! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Two heads are better than one! (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course the solution is to use two separate dual-link cards, but that doesn't seem to have crossed his mind.