Re: hardware quote comments?
I'm a little behind here due to an old procmail recipe I had forgotten
about, but I wanted to reiterate and expand on something Mr. Wehland
writes about:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:26:15PM -0600, Matt Wehland wrote:
> At 11:29 AM 2/25/02 -0800, you wrote:
> Save some money and buy the biggest/best monitor you can afford. People
98% agreement with this statement, the only quibble I have is that
*better* is more important than *bigger*.
Unless you are doing fairly high end graphic design and layout, a
19" monitor is about all your eye can really deal with--this is from
a couple years doing technical support for the graphic designers at
a medium sized...mens entertainment magazine, and just a lot of
years working as a graphic designer. I've used, and continue to use
everything from crappy 12" monitors (for very specific uses) to
15s, 17s, Dual 19's (xinerama is your buddy) at work and 21's.
Bigger, past a certain point is not better.
In fact, for the way most people work 2 17s will give them more
usable space than a 21"--and be about the same cost.
> never listen to me and like to drool over performance numbers of CPU's and
> HD's, but in reality most systems probably aren't even utilized 2%-10% of
> the time, the rest is just sitting idle while I type or read or
> something. On the other hand you spend every second with the computer
> looking at your monitor. Also get your self a good chair. I'd rather have
> to wait for my computer for a couple of seconds but be comfortable the rest
> of the day.
Yup.
And a good comfortable keyboard. And mouse.
Ergonomics.
Ergonomics.
Ergonomics.
This goes to things like how loud are the fans (high levels of noise
are a major source of stress), the relationship between your typing
height and your chair, and the height of your monitor (which is why
most laptops suck so badly--they put your neck at a bad angle, the
keyboards are marginal at best etc.).
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