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"David G. Bell" <dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I've seen monitors labelled as 14" and 15" side by side, and I had to 
>measure the image to see any difference in _image_ size (and the guy 
>selling them gave me a rather sour look too...).

Wasn't a Philips, was it..?  My Sony 15" monitor at work is bigger than
a Philips 17"...

>Yes, it depends on what you want to do, but I wouldn't use anything more 
>than 800x600 on a 14"/15" monitor -- I've tried and, while it lets you 
>look at more of a large graphics image, things are too small to work on 
>(even with the large fonts for the Windows menues).

Hmm.  I run 1024x768 with large fonts on my Panasonic 15" at home, but I
need to cos I type from 5 feet away.  It's still very readable, though.
And at work, I run with small fonts; the Trinitron screen is crisp
enough to make it quite useable, even for CAD work.

But, yes, all things considered, an Iiyama 17" would be better :)  If I
had room for one :(

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