Dream Setup

Just a slight update on my summer jobs before I get onto my blog about my Dream Setup. Success Tutorial did not "need" me for the summer camp. Apparently, they have a long-time tutor who was interested in teaching, but the coordinator didn’t "know" when they "hired" me. So now they say they will try to find me a permanent class. I really hope I do get to teach.

Anyway, yes! I finally have my Dream Setup of my work space. What is my Dream Setup? Dual monitor with my laptop. At last, the Acer AL1916W 19" wide-screen monitor have come down to my target price. It actually came down once before, but I hesitated and when I finally decided to get it, and it was sold out. This time, I reacted fast, and got my hands on one. I have wanted this monitor for the longest time. It was very expensive when I first saw it, but now, it came to the right price and it’s a deal.

The new monitor is pretty big. Not super-huge, but big. Bigger and wider then a standard 17" LCD. Originally, I just wanted a standard 17" LCD, but this one is that much nicer. The dot pitch is a little larger then the 14" widescreen on my Presario V2000, but then one of the reasons I wanted another monitor was because I wanted to see the subscripts in formulas and larger dot pitch means bigger fonts. The first thing I did was to check for dead pixels. None! I was worried about them, but I found none. Yay!

The color is a little different. The Acer AL1916W is richer, warmer, but more yellow. I am still trying to fine tune it to match the Presario V2000. Maybe the color difference is due the the fact that it doesn’t have the shiny screen like my laptop does. As others on the net say, the Acer AL1916W is really a bright monitor. I have both the contrast and brightness set to zero, but it is still bright in broad daylight.

So far though, I love my new monitor.