And the Fail Boat plows on...
Oct. 8th, 2009 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI've been wanting to get a large monitor for my laptop for some time now, but I have no idea how to go about buying one or configuring one for my set-up.
Still, with that level of incompetence under my belt, I tried three different places to shop for monitors: Staples, Best Buy, and Frys.
Frys was the worst of all three. This rather surprised me, as I've come to expect better from them, but the guy literally told me that he didn't think I was interested in buying a monitor that day and he had other people waiting. The "other people" were an older couple who he proceeded to bamboolze with talk about how the machine he was selling was "on sale today only" and "worth every penny" and so forth.
Best Buy was a little better. When I told the guy I was using Linux he said, "Oh, I don't think any of our monitors support that." But kudos to him for at least letting me hook up the laptop to his monitors and try them out. We got some working, but I didn't think the resolution was all that great.
And Staples was the best: the woman let me try just about any monitor, and really did try harder to sell me something.
Still, I don't have a large-scale monitor for digital editing yet. And I could really use one. Just a cheap one, you know, something 21" and about $160 or so. Anyone know of a good one for a widescreen laptop?
Still, with that level of incompetence under my belt, I tried three different places to shop for monitors: Staples, Best Buy, and Frys.
Frys was the worst of all three. This rather surprised me, as I've come to expect better from them, but the guy literally told me that he didn't think I was interested in buying a monitor that day and he had other people waiting. The "other people" were an older couple who he proceeded to bamboolze with talk about how the machine he was selling was "on sale today only" and "worth every penny" and so forth.
Best Buy was a little better. When I told the guy I was using Linux he said, "Oh, I don't think any of our monitors support that." But kudos to him for at least letting me hook up the laptop to his monitors and try them out. We got some working, but I didn't think the resolution was all that great.
And Staples was the best: the woman let me try just about any monitor, and really did try harder to sell me something.
Still, I don't have a large-scale monitor for digital editing yet. And I could really use one. Just a cheap one, you know, something 21" and about $160 or so. Anyone know of a good one for a widescreen laptop?
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Date: 2009-10-09 01:11 am (UTC)I got a 21" CRT that does 1600x1200 for *free* off of freecycle a few months back. And a friend got a similar unit for $1 at goodwill.
Sure, you'll eventually want something better. But it's a cheap way to start playing with things.