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The WIDE View
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
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I think that I have been putting my money in the wrong place.
Paul Boutin of Slate Magazine summarizes it this way: Speed is good, but spread is better.
The new$2000 24 inch iMac was what pushed Paul close to the edge. He points out that Dell has a Core 2-powered PC for $1,200 or a 24-inch flat-panel monitor for around $700.
Apple’s Web site has a study done by a third party that concludes that 30-inch monitors aren’t a luxury. That study found that “When working on a computer, we lose much more time than we realize through user-interface manipulations,” No surprising for those who do video editing or Photoshop all day – but their report also indicated sizable productivity gains for those who work in Word and Excel, or spend most of their daylight hours plugged into Outlook.
Not a flat screen in the house here, except for laptops doing double duty as desktop replacements. We have had these things around for about 25 years in one form or another – Starting with an ADM-3 in the S100 days and the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. Other than a splurge on a 21″ CRT about seven years ago – that’s been the extent of my focus on the display.
Annette has been operating with multiple monitors for years in the professional world – leaving some of us on the trailing edge. I think that’s about to change.
The conclusion of the Slate Article ? Upgrade the flat panel real estate now, skip a generation of hardware upgrade, let the first Service Pack of Vista crank through, and enjoy the view.
Probably the message that Intel and Dell did not want you to hear . I imagine that Intel can live with it, if you decide to grab the new iMac.
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