And the Fail Boat plows on...

[elfs]

I'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?

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This is one of my few true complaints about the T6x series and many ThinkPads...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...is the lack of a digital output without buying one of their docks, but when they came out even then high resolution screens that really benefit from a DVI port were quite expensive, more expensive than the low-end dock and comparable to the high-end dock.

But whenever I've tried 20" or so screens on my laptop, I get driven bonkers by the fuzzy text that results even running at the screen's native resolution, since it's going through a D2A then an A2D conversion.

I blame being spoiled by 1920x1200@147dpi.