ever since he bought his powerbook, he's been wanting an external widescreen LCD for it. so when a friend pointed me to a deal on 19" widescreens, we figured, hey, why not?
i found out why not. Viewsonic 1912wb LCDs do not scale. at all. if you want to display any resolution other than the native, you're pretty much screwed. this is a problem for me, because as far as i'm concerned, the purpose of having a nice monitor is to play games on it. and i don't want to play games that are all stretched and smudgy because viewsonic has decided to not even allow the monitor to process the signal from the video card.
it has been RMAed and replaced with an Acer AL1917, which can scale, but isn't widescreen. i'm not used to widescreen anyway, and i don't really need it. and this monitor has a more normal resolution, and it scales DOSbox perfectly. no more stretchy badness.
only one problem remains: i can't balance my monitor dragon on top of an LCD.
[edit 11:43PM: no, the dragon is not my zodiac animal. i just thought it looked cool. also. there appear to be no dead pixels! ^_^ ]
also, it's been three weeks since we quit smoking. yay!
Friday, June 9, 2006
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You quit smoking? Why wasn't I consulted on this?
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