Why do we get used the size of things after while?

[racolvin]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: racolvin

Originally posted by: Baked
My 22" feels small. But when people come over, they say, OMG that's huge!

You show your 22" to just anyone that stops by?

Wouldn't you if you're packing?

You know, now that I think of it you're right - if I had 22" I'd be showing it everybody. Heck I might even be in the movies .. you know, those movies

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: racolvin

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: racolvin

Originally posted by: Baked
My 22" feels small. But when people come over, they say, OMG that's huge!

You show your 22" to just anyone that stops by?

Wouldn't you if you're packing?

You know, now that I think of it you're right - if I had 22" I'd be showing it everybody. Heck I might even be in the movies .. you know, those movies

OK Rodney Carrington.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have two 19"s at home and at the help desk I had 2 20" and better native resolution. From work to home I can manage fine.

Now I'm in another office and I have 2 widescreens, which are basically the same as my home monitors, but with the top cut off, and a super crappy native resolution. Sucks that everything is going widescreen now too. It's basicaly taking a normal size LCD and cutting the top off, so you lose lot of space for the same money.

I remember when I first got my 2 19"s at home. I upgraded those from a single 17 CRT and went from 800*600 to 1280*1024. Wow, what a difference that was.

 

[racolvin]

Originally posted by: ja1484

Originally posted by: racolvin

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: racolvin

Originally posted by: Baked
My 22" feels small. But when people come over, they say, OMG that's huge!

You show your 22" to just anyone that stops by?

Wouldn't you if you're packing?

You know, now that I think of it you're right - if I had 22" I'd be showing it everybody. Heck I might even be in the movies .. you know, those movies

OK Rodney Carrington.

HA! :thumbsup:

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I have two 19"s at home and at the help desk I had 2 20" and better native resolution. From work to home I can manage fine.

Now I'm in another office and I have 2 widescreens, which are basically the same as my home monitors, but with the top cut off, and a super crappy native resolution. Sucks that everything is going widescreen now too. It's basicaly taking a normal size LCD and cutting the top off, so you lose lot of space for the same money.

I remember when I first got my 2 19"s at home. I upgraded those from a single 17 CRT and went from 800*600 to 1280*1024. Wow, what a difference that was.

What monitors are at that new office, dual 1280x768 LCDs or something? I remember seeing those several years ago. Wondered why anyone would buy those instead of the ones at 1440x900.

 

[thegimp03]

Yeah, I have a 40" lcd tv sitting on my desk behind a 19" lcd monitor. At first, sitting that close to my 40" made me dizzy, but I'm use to it now.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: OCguy
Interesting. My SO still isnt used to the size. She can barely walk.

Sucks having to bounce off a pubic bone I guess.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I have two 19"s at home and at the help desk I had 2 20" and better native resolution. From work to home I can manage fine.

Now I'm in another office and I have 2 widescreens, which are basically the same as my home monitors, but with the top cut off, and a super crappy native resolution. Sucks that everything is going widescreen now too. It's basicaly taking a normal size LCD and cutting the top off, so you lose lot of space for the same money.

I remember when I first got my 2 19"s at home. I upgraded those from a single 17 CRT and went from 800*600 to 1280*1024. Wow, what a difference that was.

What monitors are at that new office, dual 1280x768 LCDs or something? I remember seeing those several years ago. Wondered why anyone would buy those instead of the ones at 1440x900.

I think they're 1440x900, but still that's less room then 1280*1024 or what I had at work (I forget, but it's the step above 1280*1024). I can see it being useful for certain things like if you need to have stuff open side by side, but I find top length is more important for most tasks.

 

[Nik]

Familiarity breeds contempt.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: darkxshade
I'm still using my $300 14" CRT from 1995

lol yea 19" monitor used to be considered massive lol course with crt the monitor was quite literally massive!

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I have two 19"s at home and at the help desk I had 2 20" and better native resolution. From work to home I can manage fine.

Now I'm in another office and I have 2 widescreens, which are basically the same as my home monitors, but with the top cut off, and a super crappy native resolution. Sucks that everything is going widescreen now too. It's basicaly taking a normal size LCD and cutting the top off, so you lose lot of space for the same money.

I remember when I first got my 2 19"s at home. I upgraded those from a single 17 CRT and went from 800*600 to 1280*1024. Wow, what a difference that was.

What monitors are at that new office, dual 1280x768 LCDs or something? I remember seeing those several years ago. Wondered why anyone would buy those instead of the ones at 1440x900.

I think they're 1440x900, but still that's less room then 1280*1024 or what I had at work (I forget, but it's the step above 1280*1024). I can see it being useful for certain things like if you need to have stuff open side by side, but I find top length is more important for most tasks.

in more office cases than not people want 'bigger' text and less side by side

We deployed widescreen 20 and 22" monitors and our management all switched to 800x600 and 1024x768.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: OCguy
Interesting. My SO still isnt used to the size. She can barely walk.

i see what she is doing wrong, the LCD goes on the tv table...

:thumbsup:

 

[duragezic]

Originally posted by: Imp
I've had to use 17" and 19" 5:4 LCDs at work all while I've had a 24" WS, so having to use crap 8 hours a day makes me appreciate what I've got.

I think I'm the opposite there. I have 2x 19" 5:4 at work which I think I'd rather have over the engineers who get 1x 24" WS because their laptops only have a single output.

For overall space, the dual 1280x1024 will offer more than a single 1920x1200. The dual monitors seem better for what I do since I usually don't need more height. At home, I can't get myself to buy a second monitor because even though it would be cool, I don't do work at home! That is when I want a single, large WS for general use, games, and movies.

Then again, maybe I'd change my mind if I actually used a 24" WS. I'm going to upgrade my 20" WS at home to a 24" when I find a good one for a decent price. There I agree with the OP, because my once seemingly huge 20" is weaksauce now.

 

[Hacp]

I'm stuck with a 6"

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
I have two 19"s at home and at the help desk I had 2 20" and better native resolution. From work to home I can manage fine.

Now I'm in another office and I have 2 widescreens, which are basically the same as my home monitors, but with the top cut off, and a super crappy native resolution. Sucks that everything is going widescreen now too. It's basicaly taking a normal size LCD and cutting the top off, so you lose lot of space for the same money.

I remember when I first got my 2 19"s at home. I upgraded those from a single 17 CRT and went from 800*600 to 1280*1024. Wow, what a difference that was.

What monitors are at that new office, dual 1280x768 LCDs or something? I remember seeing those several years ago. Wondered why anyone would buy those instead of the ones at 1440x900.

I think they're 1440x900, but still that's less room then 1280*1024 or what I had at work (I forget, but it's the step above 1280*1024). I can see it being useful for certain things like if you need to have stuff open side by side, but I find top length is more important for most tasks.

in more office cases than not people want 'bigger' text and less side by side

We deployed widescreen 20 and 22" monitors and our management all switched to 800x600 and 1024x768.

Gah, I fuckin hate that. Most of my coworkers (the ones with LCDs at least... several are still on CRTs) run their 19" 5:4 LCDs at 1024x768 or possibly even 800x600 because they can't see anything. Which really just means their glasses aren't doing their job, or perhaps they don't have their screens close enough or their screens are just too small.

People with big screens and bad eyes need resolution independence. Not that they'd use it...

 

[lifeobry]

When I got my new computer case, it looked absolutely enormous (because it is)

But now it just seems average.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: alkemyst

in more office cases than not people want 'bigger' text and less side by side

We deployed widescreen 20 and 22" monitors and our management all switched to 800x600 and 1024x768.

Gah, I fuckin hate that. Most of my coworkers (the ones with LCDs at least... several are still on CRTs) run their 19" 5:4 LCDs at 1024x768 or possibly even 800x600 because they can't see anything. Which really just means their glasses aren't doing their job, or perhaps they don't have their screens close enough or their screens are just too small.

People with big screens and bad eyes need resolution independence. Not that they'd use it...

I can see where they're coming from. Most of the people at work two jobs ago used 1024x768 on a 17" 5:4 monitor due to text size. I run my 24" WS native, but have to jack up fonts to large, and override text sizes in Explorer because everything is too small. If I upgrade, it'll be a 32" 1080p or 27" 1920x1200 for larger dot-pitch.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: alkemyst

in more office cases than not people want 'bigger' text and less side by side

We deployed widescreen 20 and 22" monitors and our management all switched to 800x600 and 1024x768.

Gah, I fuckin hate that. Most of my coworkers (the ones with LCDs at least... several are still on CRTs) run their 19" 5:4 LCDs at 1024x768 or possibly even 800x600 because they can't see anything. Which really just means their glasses aren't doing their job, or perhaps they don't have their screens close enough or their screens are just too small.

People with big screens and bad eyes need resolution independence. Not that they'd use it...

I can see where they're coming from. Most of the people at work two jobs ago used 1024x768 on a 17" 5:4 monitor due to text size. I run my 24" WS native, but have to jack up fonts to large, and override text sizes in Explorer because everything is too small. If I upgrade, it'll be a 32" 1080p or 27" 1920x1200 for larger dot-pitch.

The problem with jacking up fonts in XP is that it doesn't do it well. Vista does it better, but with XP you lose sharpness.

The best size for 1920x1200 is probably 27". It is true 24" is too small.

 

[CKent]

The only time my 22" seems small is when I want to sit in another chair further away from it and watch a movie. For general computing and games it's fine.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: alkemyst

in more office cases than not people want 'bigger' text and less side by side

We deployed widescreen 20 and 22" monitors and our management all switched to 800x600 and 1024x768.

Gah, I fuckin hate that. Most of my coworkers (the ones with LCDs at least... several are still on CRTs) run their 19" 5:4 LCDs at 1024x768 or possibly even 800x600 because they can't see anything. Which really just means their glasses aren't doing their job, or perhaps they don't have their screens close enough or their screens are just too small.

People with big screens and bad eyes need resolution independence. Not that they'd use it...

I can see where they're coming from. Most of the people at work two jobs ago used 1024x768 on a 17" 5:4 monitor due to text size. I run my 24" WS native, but have to jack up fonts to large, and override text sizes in Explorer because everything is too small. If I upgrade, it'll be a 32" 1080p or 27" 1920x1200 for larger dot-pitch.

The problem with jacking up fonts in XP is that it doesn't do it well. Vista does it better, but with XP you lose sharpness.

The best size for 1920x1200 is probably 27". It is true 24" is too small.

shit I used to run 1600x1200 on a 17, then 19...now I want a 24" to do 19x12

 

[LordMorpheus]

Here's an interesting question: what's the biggest screen that is reasonable for desktop use.

I've been itching to upgrade the desktop and the most important thing to me is having a kickass display, so I figured I'd just buy a 1080 LCD tv and use that as a monitor, but even the smallish ones like 42" seem like they'd be way too big.

Who here has a setup with a giant screen and how do you like it?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Here's an interesting question: what's the biggest screen that is reasonable for desktop use.

I've been itching to upgrade the desktop and the most important thing to me is having a kickass display, so I figured I'd just buy a 1080 LCD tv and use that as a monitor, but even the smallish ones like 42" seem like they'd be way too big.

Who here has a setup with a giant screen and how do you like it?

Unless you're going to use it to watch movies from a distance, why not just get a 24" 1080p LCD? I think a 42" LCD would be annoying to use as a computer screen.

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Here's an interesting question: what's the biggest screen that is reasonable for desktop use.

I've been itching to upgrade the desktop and the most important thing to me is having a kickass display, so I figured I'd just buy a 1080 LCD tv and use that as a monitor, but even the smallish ones like 42" seem like they'd be way too big.

Who here has a setup with a giant screen and how do you like it?

Unless you're going to use it to watch movies from a distance, why not just get a 24" 1080p LCD? I think a 42" LCD would be annoying to use as a computer screen.

I love my 42" westy...the only that sucks about is having to go to work where i only have 19" LCD...

to each his own...

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my ol' westy 37" (on the right) is relegated to wife duty now

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: aphex
As I sit here doing a bit of work, I recall back to when I first got this LCD. It felt HUGE compared to my old 20" LCD that it replaced.

Now the 24" LCD feels a bit small to me, dunno why.

Anyone else notice this?

swap to a 15inch laptop now and die! oh no space lol

 

[MistaFreeze]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

I love my 42" westy...the only that sucks about is having to go to work where i only have 19" LCD...

to each his own...

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my ol' westy 37" (on the right) is relegated to wife duty now

I don't see how you can sit that close to such a big screen. I guess it would just take some getting used to but you'd think it would be bad on your eyes.