What is the point? LCD upgrade rant

[minendo]

Just about everyone in the department is being or has been upgraded to 18" lcds. However, I fail to see the point of this since they run their Dell UltraSharp 18.1" at 1024x768.

It looks like crap and there is no reason for the department to spend money on hardware that is not properly utilized.

 

[fs5]

is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

Actually in a way it is.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

Actually in a way it is.

what do you mean in a way it is? your company is public?

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

Actually in a way it is.

if he pays tuition, and computer fees of course it's his money.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Because they are pretty and take up less space than a CRT. There is a guy here running his viewsonic 19" at 800x600.

 

[AmericasTeam]

Originally posted by: minendo
Just about everyone in the department is being or has been upgraded to 18" lcds. However, I fail to see the point of this since they run their Dell UltraSharp 18.1" at 1024x768.

It looks like crap and there is no reason for the department to spend money on hardware that is not properly utilized.

I agree. Send me one and I wil promptly set it to 1600x1200

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: minendo
Just about everyone in the department is being or has been upgraded to 18" lcds. However, I fail to see the point of this since they run their Dell UltraSharp 18.1" at 1024x768.

It looks like crap and there is no reason for the department to spend money on hardware that is not properly utilized.

Argh...I hate that as well.

 

[iamwiz82]

If the dept does not spend it's allotted budget this year, next year the board or CFO or whatever will think "hey, they didn't spend it last year, they won't need it this year." It is a very common practice.

 

[Imaginer]

Originally posted by: AmericasTeam

Originally posted by: minendo
Just about everyone in the department is being or has been upgraded to 18" lcds. However, I fail to see the point of this since they run their Dell UltraSharp 18.1" at 1024x768.

It looks like crap and there is no reason for the department to spend money on hardware that is not properly utilized.

I agree. Send me one and I wil promptly set it to 1600x1200

Ditto, I would be glad to maximize its use!

 

[agnitrate]

I'll test one of those for ya

-silver

 

[edmicman]

isn't the 1800FP's max resolution 1280x1024?

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

Actually in a way it is.

what do you mean in a way it is? your company is public?

they'll have less money to pay him because they spent it on pointless hardware.

 

[DanJ]

I can relate. A lot of the computer labs on my campus got upgraded to 17 or 19" LCDs. At first the network image pushed 800x600 resolutions on all of these (as it was the campus default), only since bumped up to 1024 x 768 but never will they run at their native resolution. Why? Because the people in charge don't want to deal with people complaining about small text (even though its sharper and without the horrible distortion of lower resolutions on LCDs); so these nice monitors all look like crap. To compromise for this larger resolution (1024x768) they've bumped the default font size to the large fonts (120%) which cannot be switched back unless windows is restarted which isn't possible with netboot (as the harddrive is just rewritten). Thus everything looks jacked.

Bunch of geniuses.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
If the dept does not spend it's allotted budget this year, next year the board or CFO or whatever will think "hey, they didn't spend it last year, they won't need it this year." It is a very common practice.

If the public sector was a business, it would be flat broke and have declared bankruptcy x10000000000000

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: DanJ
I can relate. A lot of the computer labs on my campus got upgraded to 17 or 19" LCDs. At first the network image pushed 800x600 resolutions on all of these (as it was the campus default), only since bumped up to 1024 x 768 but never will they run at their native resolution. Why? Because the people in charge don't want to deal with people complaining about small text (even though its sharper and without the horrible distortion of lower resolutions on LCDs); so these nice monitors all look like crap. To compromise for this larger resolution (1024x768) they've bumped the default font size to the large fonts (120%) which cannot be switched back unless windows is restarted which isn't possible with netboot (as the harddrive is just rewritten). Thus everything looks jacked.

Bunch of geniuses.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: DanJ
I can relate. A lot of the computer labs on my campus got upgraded to 17 or 19" LCDs. At first the network image pushed 800x600 resolutions on all of these (as it was the campus default), only since bumped up to 1024 x 768 but never will they run at their native resolution. Why? Because the people in charge don't want to deal with people complaining about small text (even though its sharper and without the horrible distortion of lower resolutions on LCDs); so these nice monitors all look like crap. To compromise for this larger resolution (1024x768) they've bumped the default font size to the large fonts (120%) which cannot be switched back unless windows is restarted which isn't possible with netboot (as the harddrive is just rewritten). Thus everything looks jacked.

Bunch of geniuses.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: edmicman
isn't the 1800FP's max resolution 1280x1024?

Yes.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

Actually in a way it is.

what do you mean in a way it is? your company is public?

they'll have less money to pay him because they spent it on pointless hardware.

that's what you think, you can't translate money NOT used for hardware as your money.
btw.. are we talking about a school or a business here?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
is it your money? so who freakin' cares.

Actually in a way it is.

what do you mean in a way it is? your company is public?

they'll have less money to pay him because they spent it on pointless hardware.

that's what you think, you can't translate money NOT used for hardware as your money.
btw.. are we talking about a school or a business here?

It is a university. I pay tuition which part of it is used for these upgrades.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: minendo
It is a university. I pay tuition which part of it is used for these upgrades.

oh.. well maybe they got an agreement with dell for some 18's

 

[lokiju]

Saves money on electric bill and they pay for theirselves in the long run.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: blazert40
Saves money on electric bill and they pay for theirselves in the long run.

I forgot to mention that most of these are being upgraded from 15" LCDs.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: minendo
It is a university. I pay tuition which part of it is used for these upgrades.

So the money basically belongs to the university.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: blazert40
Saves money on electric bill and they pay for theirselves in the long run.

I forgot to mention that most of these are being upgraded from 15" LCDs.

Oh, in that case its just a waste of money.