The 19" ViewSonic on my main desktop crapped out last year and, being lazy, rather than go out and buy a new monitor, I just pirated the 17" Mitsubishi from my backup machine. After getting used to the 19-incher, going back to a 17" monitor was like staring into a postage stamp.
This makes the whiff of nostalgia from playing Master of Orion II on my Mac Performa 636CD even stronger; I remember when the Apple MultiScan 14" display was, if not high-end, at least an average monitor. Now it makes the 17" Mitsubishi look like a drive-in theater screen by comparison. And were all monitors so curved back then? This thing's like looking at a fisheye lens. I'm spoiled by flat screens. Oddly the effect is nowhere near as bad on older all-in-one Macs; you expect to be staring at a bitty screen with those, and the effect is kind of twee.
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My employer, "Large Multinational Corporation" fly me from Palmdale CA to El Segundo CA (near LAX) once or twice a week. When I get to the El Segundo site, i have to use a laptop. On good days, I don't need to go to El Segundo, so have a 19 inch monitor at my usual desk, and a 15 inch at home.
Add to that I have trifocal lenses, and my eyes get tired, so need more magnification as I move through my day. I shift through the lenses trying to find the combination that works for me this hour. That means I have 9 alternative ways of viewing a screen, and 2 ways of looking at dead tree text. After a few hours at work my neck is sore from imitating the little dog in the back shelf of a Buick, with his head going up and down, up and down...
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