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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:28:45 -0500, Stephen Adler
<adler at stephenadler.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, I could get 2 HPL2035 or ViewSonic VP201b's
> for about $800 a piece. I would get 1600x1200x2 in pixel area
> or (4800x1200) instead of 1920x1200 ( a factor of 2.5 more!)

No, you'd get 3200x1200, or if you did double-portrait, 2400x1600.

> Makes much more sense huh? 

Well, depends. Do you mind having two monitors instead of one? Will
you be OK watching movies on just one, or with a big bezel in the
middle?

> But now I'm in video card indecision
> hell... Should I get a pci-express fire gl v3200, which means
> going out and buying a new motherboard... (something I've
> been postponing.. but maybe now's the time...) 

Yes, because I want to know how good Linux PCI-Express/Xinerama
support is, and I'd rather do it with your time and money than mine.
:--)

-- 
Gordon Marx
gcmarx at alumni.virginia.edu




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