{"id":1477,"date":"2005-02-25T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/edv\/050224-eizo_l685.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T02:29:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:29:07","slug":"screen-real-estate-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Screen real estate growing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another upgrade in my hardware department: This week I bought a <abbr title=\"Liquid Crystal\">LC<\/abbr> Display on eBay. I purchased an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eizo.com\/downloads\/brochures\/pdf\/L685.pdf\" title=\"583 KB .pdf file\">Eizo FlexScan L685<\/a> for the price of \u20ac 290 (including shipping). It is an 18 inch flat screen display with two input ports and a 4-port <abbr title=\"Universal Serial Bus\">USB<\/abbr> hub included. Having two video input ports is really excellent for me \u2013 I can connect my PowerBook and my G4 PowerMac at the same time, using the <strong>huge<\/strong> 18 inch display as additional screen estate for the PowerBook when I need it. Just the press of a button away. I&#8217;ll check if I can get a cheap USB switch too, so that I can use one keyboard-mouse combo for both computers, further minimizing clutter on my desk, and making my ergonomic keyboard and mouse readily available for my laptop too.<br \/>\nThe display is older than I thought (more than 4500 hours of use, the screen manager says), but it doesn&#8217;t feel old. It is spotless, has no pixel defects, and it is amazingly bright, clear, and colorful. I personally think I made a very good deal. At least if it doesn&#8217;t die in the course of the next 18 months or so. My former display (17 inch <abbr title=\"Cathode Ray Tube - I think\">CRT<\/abbr>) slowly got worse and worse, small fonts getting hard to read so that my eyes started to complain even more. No complaints about sharpness anymore. A nice side effect of it being an 18 inch display with a resolution of 1280&#215;1024 pixels is that the pixels on the Eizo and on my PowerBook have almost exactly the same density (~90<abbr title=\"pixels per inch\">ppi<\/abbr>), so that the size of windows and pictures doesn&#8217;t change when I move them from one screen to the other. Call me a happy camper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another upgrade in my hardware department: This week I bought a LC Display on eBay. I purchased an Eizo FlexScan L685 for the price of \u20ac 290 (including shipping). It is an 18 inch flat screen display with two input ports and a 4-port USB hub included. Having two video input ports is really excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[333,299],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-display","tag-pismo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}