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by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 16th, 2009
That depends on what you need a computer for.
Personally, I have a tower and a netbook, and I use them both.
My tower has a 20" CRT, a 256MB video card, and 2.1 speakers. The big screen, the oomph to run it at high resolution and a decent framerate, and the stereo+subwoofer sound make it better for multimedia or gaming.
Also it is the print server for our home LAN, the optical drive for my netbook (via file sharing), and my transcoding box since it has more RAM and twice the clock speed.
My netbook is for surfing, since my wife is often home and wants to be online herself so a second computer is mandatory.
I also use it as an e-book as it has a few shelves worth of PDF files (mostly RPG books) that I like to peruse when I am on the go but don't feel like lugging (literally) my own weight in hardcovers around.
It can do videos, but the sound isn't nearly as good and the screen isn't something three people can siit on the couch and watch from a distance.
I have multiple needs and some of them require mutually exclusive features. Try getting a 20" screen and a decent subwoofer small enough to fit in a three-ring binder with room to spare.
I steer away from laptops. They are not as powerful as desktops unless you want to get one that either has a battery pack too big/heavy to carry comfortably or can deal with only using the thing near a wall outlet. They are also not as portable as a netbook, and often have shorter battery life than a netbbok with a 6-cell battery.
Add in the cost (often more expensive than a netbook and a decent desktop combined) and you get a machine that really doesn't appeal to me.
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20" CRT??? Goodness! That's HUGE! Where do you come up with the desk space for that monster?
by The Wade on July 17th, 2009
Modern office furniture is designed to either cram more workers into a small office like sardines or fit in a 300 sq. ft studio.
I have one of the old-school office desks from back in the day. It's about the size of a six-seater dining table, so I have my tower, mousepad, keyboard, monitor, and inkjet on the top and still have enough room (barely) to put a full-sized dinner plate and a beverage on the corner.
I used to have a 19" in a computer armoire, though I couldn't close the doors like I could with the 17" it replaced.
by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 17th, 2009
Wow. That's crazy yo. I couldn't imagine taking up that much space. Haha, I demand the high-def LCD's, and sometime soon the OLED's. They's nice for gaming, haha
by The Wade on July 17th, 2009
LCDs can only run well at one resolution though. If you interpolate them at all, they look like pixelated ass.
I run my desktop at 1600x1200 most of the time, but some of my games are older and only go up to 1280x960. If I tried that on an LCD, it would either shrink the screen or double up certain pixels and look horrible. A CRT can run multiple resolutions just fine.
by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 17th, 2009
Wow. I didn't know that. I'll have to look into such things yo.
by The Wade on July 17th, 2009
The term you want is "Native Resolution".
by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 17th, 2009
Ah yes. Thank you sir.
by The Wade on July 18th, 2009