drifterlee opened this issue on Dec 02, 2007 · 35 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 03 December 2007 at 2:25 PM
Quote - I stopped using CRTs five years ago and didn't regret it for a minute. If you're spending several hours per day in front of a computer, using a good monitor, keyboard and mouse is essential! I can't understand people who buy a new quad-core SLI RAID killer PC every year but still use the same 17" CRT they got bundled with their Pentium II. I always end up buying the cheaper PC and spend more on the monitor instead. A bad computer may make you wait a little longer, where a bad monitor will make you sick.
Yes -- I've always thought that it's an odd thing: when people talk about "upgrading": monitors rarely get mentioned in the mix. And this is interesting because the monitor is the one part of PC that you stare at nearly all of the time.
For 3D / graphics people -- you'd think (or at least I'd think) that the monitor would be considered a key element of the system. And an element which would be worth sacrificing on other aspects of the PC to get a good one.