should i take this?

[TwiceOver]

I just took 2 pallets of 17" - 21" monitors to our warehouse. Just can't get up the nerve to throw them out since they work just fine.

 

[xboxist]

Don't do it. It's a space-waster, and if your primary monitor at home dies you know you'll just run out to Circuit City or whatever and just pick up a new one that very same hour. You know you don't want to deal with hauling that big ass thing around and looking at a degraded, dusty box for a picture.

 

[imported_Imp]

No. Once you get sick of it (probably soon), you'll have a hell of a time humping it to the dump.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Captante
Only take it if you have an immediate need for it ... CRT's are hard to even give away these days.

no they're not, if you put a 21" CRT on Craigslist it will be gone within a week. It might be a small % but there are still some of us who only use CRT's. I bought 5 21-22" CRT's off CL's last year, price was too good to pass up. OP's potential monitor is a Diamontron which is baaad ass, as long as the monitor still looks good. No way in hell I'd take a LCD over a good Diamontron!

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: CasioTech
it's worth like $25.

i'm not out to get rich off of it you fuckin pylon.

LOL, I seriously WATCH for posts against casios posts.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Captante
Only take it if you have an immediate need for it ... CRT's are hard to even give away these days.

Thats why I am throwing mine away but first doing it promptly.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: Captante
Only take it if you have an immediate need for it ... CRT's are hard to even give away these days.

no they're not, if you put a 21" CRT on Craigslist it will be gone within a week. It might be a small % but there are still some of us who only use CRT's. I bought 5 21-22" CRT's off CL's last year, price was too good to pass up. OP's potential monitor is a Diamontron which is baaad ass, as long as the monitor still looks good. No way in hell I'd take a LCD over a good Diamontron!

Yeah but what about shipping?

 

[nageov3t]

I used to have a 21" crt back in the day... god was that thing heavy.

fucked up the computer desk I was using.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
the IT person here at the office just asked me if I wanted a 21" CRT monitor. they are throwing it out. i used to think it was awesome, about 9 years ago when i started here. it's an NEC Multisync.

should i take it?

Do you need a good boat anchor?

If so, I got a 17 and 2 19s wasting my space if you got a few more smaller boats randomly floating around.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I used to have a 21" crt back in the day... god was that thing heavy.

fucked up the computer desk I was using.

Did your desk break in two ?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: CasioTech
it's worth like $25.

i'm not out to get rich off of it you fuckin pylon.

:laugh:MAO!!!

 

[pcslookout]

I sold my old monitor for $3.51

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Patt
I considered one here at work too ... 22" behemoth. Decided against it because no one else wanted to help me get it to my car. Well, that, I seriously wasn't sure the table I use as a desk would support the weight long-term

Don't do it ... the missus will likely be pissed

so true. good point.

Yeah, my wife would be pissed if I brought home a 21" monitor. The first words would be, "where are you going to put it?" And she'd be right.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: Captante
Only take it if you have an immediate need for it ... CRT's are hard to even give away these days.

no they're not, if you put a 21" CRT on Craigslist it will be gone within a week. It might be a small % but there are still some of us who only use CRT's. I bought 5 21-22" CRT's off CL's last year, price was too good to pass up. OP's potential monitor is a Diamontron which is baaad ass, as long as the monitor still looks good. No way in hell I'd take a LCD over a good Diamontron!

Yeah but what about shipping?

CL is all local isn't it? I never see anything for sale on there saying they'll ship it. I drove about 11 miles, gave him $100 and walked away with 5 CRT's. I was stoked, I know they're old so they might die, that's why I bought them all. This way I should be good to stay with CRT until I die or Microsoft somehow forces us to use LCD. If that never happens I can be buried with my 22" Trintron by my side

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I'd take it ...
Got a thiple monitor setup on my main desk (2 PCs, using synergy so I can treat the second PC as if it were just another window on the main box, 24inch LCD in the middle and then 19inch CRTs on each side), I wouldn't mind making my secondary machine into a dual monitor setup

Synergy is literally one of the best things evar!

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: loki8481
I used to have a 21" crt back in the day... god was that thing heavy.

fucked up the computer desk I was using.

Did your desk break in two ?

it developed a pretty significant bow.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: loki8481
I used to have a 21" crt back in the day... god was that thing heavy.

fucked up the computer desk I was using.

Did your desk break in two ?

it developed a pretty significant bow.

So it looks like a boat now?

 

[Steve]

I use a 19" LCD and beside it is a 21" flat CRT with my desktop extended. I had to take the stand off the CRT, and set the LCD stand on a pair of dead hard drives (no height adjustment), but the screens are lined up very nearly perfectly as their heights are almost identical. Primary at 1280x1024 and secondary at 1360x1024. Plus, all those 20 second porn video clips look so much better on the CRT

 

[0roo0roo]

not worth the electricity and space it consumes. plus its probably old and faded...so its image will suck, or soon will. we are at cheap 19" lcd for ~ 100-150 bucks these days. crt you cant sell for anything lol, depending on your area..you might have to pay for electronic waste disposal..

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: SlickSnake

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: loki8481
I used to have a 21" crt back in the day... god was that thing heavy.

fucked up the computer desk I was using.

Did your desk break in two ?

it developed a pretty significant bow.

So it looks like a boat now?

if I remember right (got rid of the desk like 5 years ago), the center was like 2-3 inches lower than the ends.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: SlickSnake

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: loki8481
I used to have a 21" crt back in the day... god was that thing heavy.

fucked up the computer desk I was using.

Did your desk break in two ?

it developed a pretty significant bow.

So it looks like a boat now?

if I remember right (got rid of the desk like 5 years ago), the center was like 2-3 inches lower than the ends.

that's what happens when you put a 100lb monitor in the center of a folding 6-ft table