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    Hunting for a Keyboard

    Blocking - can't press more than n number of keys, or certain combinations. Ghosting - press a bunch of keys, and yet another keypress is registered.
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    Hunting for a Keyboard

    I've heard that old keyboards were far les susceptible to ghosting. If that's the case, buy a whole bunch of different el-cheapo models from geeks.com.
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    Any new keyboards like the Darwin Smartboard?

    There are smaller keypads available from other manufacturers. Also, you don't want your hands to be in a palm-down position, but closer to a hand-shake orientation. To achieve that you have to "tent" the boards. That reduces the width. The most extreme solution is to have the boards down by the...
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    Any new keyboards like the Darwin Smartboard?

    Why not? You can relegend/reprogram them however you want. Can use 2 or even 3 of them at the same time to have just the kind of ergonomic setup you want. I like this idea (but with 2 POS USB keyboards): http://www.thecraftstudio.com/bcboy/keyboard.html They also last forever.
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    Any new keyboards like the Darwin Smartboard?

    www.plum.bz Weird, I know, but nothing you can't remap. ML short-travel mechanical switches, but, IMO, the keycaps are too big, so if you press on the edge of a key, the motion becomes very stiff. Get 2, and make yourself your own ergonomic keyboard. Mechanical boards don't get any cheaper...
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    Wanted: external kb with pointstick

    I'm looking to get one myself, to round out my KB collection... But your journey is not over yet... Please read this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=107191&highlight=keyboard
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    Wanted: external kb with pointstick

    How about these 2: http://www.amazon.com/IBM-USB-Keyboard-...F8&s=electronics&qid=1173765349&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/IBM-ULTRANAV-KEYB...F8&s=electronics&qid=1173765349&sr=8-3
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    Monitor Profiles/Settings Thread

    xt, Would this profile import properly into OS X? Mine imported without errors, although I can't really tell if that's how it's supposed to look. It looks darker, and more saturated. Definitely darker than Apple's standard 1.8 gamma. Is it the ideal for text as well? Thanks in advance.
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    The burn-in seems unrelated to the other issues, and is easy enough to test. In my case, a white window on a black background does the trick. Say, open a PDF file, leave it for 30 minutes (I haven't really timed it, or really bothered with the whole issue all that much). After you close it...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Spoke too soon. The burn-in is still there. Oh well.
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    NEC got another unit for me to have a look at. And it's exactly the same. Sigh... I'm keeping the one I have. Strangely enough, after it spent a week being off, I don't see anymore burn-in happening.
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    I also have the non-US version. Got it 2 months ago. I'm pretty sure it's got a revision sticker somewhere on the back. Anyway, when I get mine back (or a new one, hopefully), I'll let you know. I don't believe the NEC is capable of 75 Hz. The tech did try it anyway, but it made no...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Crap. I too blamed the noise on my laptop, cable... But I had a couple of 2007WFP Dells a few weeks before getting the NEC and noticed no difference between VGA and DVI (they sucked for other reasons, though). My DVI has no noise, but still has burn-in problems. BTW, when did you get yours...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    xt, just to update you on my LCD20WGX2's noisy VGA port. I took it into my local NEC service center. At first no-one could see it. However, what they did see was the image persistance - I had a notepad window up for a few minutes, and when I closed it , you could see faint white glow where...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    xt, I've sort of gotten a decent setup now. I'm runnig gnome on X11 on OS X on the mac-mini, which is connected to the monitor via DVI. This lets me by-pass the crappy OS X font smoothing, and use the X11 font rendering. I ssh to my Linux laptop, and use Synergy to share the keyboard and...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    I haven't managed to, no. I would have thought that you cannot see dithering on solid color images that are not moving. I've just tried the Mini's DVI output via a VGA adaptor. Same thing. Looks like it's on the monitor end. BTW, when I was fiddling with the cabling at the back of the...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    xt, Looks like I may have found the cause of "oh, but my laptop has nicer text than the 20WGX2 - same resolution, but 3 inches smaller... must be the higher PPI". Well, I've been experimenting with different color schemes for my x-terminal in linux. I am working on the assumption that for...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    According to this site, it's TN: http://axofiber.no-ip.org/inside/monitor.lcd.panels.htm
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    You are welcome. BTW, here's the notebook LCD screen table on that same site. http://axofiber.no-ip.org/inside/notebook.lcd.panels.htm
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Although it's the most comprehensive site that I've found , you may also want to cross-reference things with other sides: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Master_Monitors_List http://www.prad.de/en/guide/vergleich_auswahl.html This site seems to be referenced...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    This Russian site seems reasonably up-to date. http://axofiber.no-ip.org/inside/monitor.lcd.panels.htm You can also filter the table by panel-type,brand, technology, etc.. Quite nifty. Translated to English the fields are: Brand / Model ,resolution ,brightness, contrast, response...
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Dot pitch, dot pitch, dot pitch... I'm mad about the dot pitch! I've had an NEC LCD20WGX2 for 3 weeks now, and it's effing great. Especially when compared to the two 2007WFP panel lottery turds that preceded it. First one - a Samsung PVA job. Second one - an LG-P IPS, but it was obvious...