Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/the-new-monitor

Comment #2164

2010-11-09T17:44:52Z

UPDATE: I have to mention that I'm completely sold on the wider monitor. I just had to get over the idea that it was for movies. It turns out that many programs now benefit from the wider format. Spreadsheets, for example.

Comment #2163

2010-10-03T23:40:38Z

Well, I still use Word. :) Then again, I've been accused of being last millennium. I don't have any problems with the shape, though, no matter how I size the window. At full screen it automatically shows me two pages instead of just one in my normal, 100% "print layout" view. (I'm using Word 2007.) Do you notice the problem with anything besides Word? If so, it sounds like a problem with a monitor setting. If not, I'm clueless.

Comment #2162

2010-10-03T23:20:14Z

Does that shape make Word documents appear the wrong shape when you're typing, or am I still last-century to even be using Word? My new monitor at school makes my documents skewed??

lcs

Comment #2161

2010-10-03T19:31:34Z

Margaret, don't you think you need a Florida vacation? Come by car and I'll be happy to stow some computer parts in it when you're not looking. :) (And thanks for commenting! You're welcome anytime.}

Stephan, the rotatable monitor is exactly what Porter was looking for but the salesmen we talked to had never heard of!

Comment #2160

2010-10-02T07:27:30Z

I was looking into an external monitor a while back and really like the widescreens one could rotate from landscape to portrait orientation. My laptop's a widescreen (8:5 ratio) and while it's neat for movies (rare use) and great for our microscopy software (even rarer on my private laptop), the only thing that makes scrolling bearable is the high resolution (1680x1050), which if you don't mind really small type is great for displaying a lot. But a large portrait oriented screen...

I ended up giving up on that just because what we have works.

Comment #2159

2010-10-02T03:33:55Z

I'm so glad that my husband doesn't read this or he would be begging for your left over parts! He loves to tinker with such things and would probably decide that he needed just one more computer for his collection. :)

I'm glad you like the monitor. We recently upgraded my husband's monitor to a widescreen, and he loves it for the same reason you do!