Popped into PC World today and saw rather a nice looking
Sharp 16” LCD monitor for about £700 … it has the same
resolution
as a 17” LCD (1,280 x 1,024 pixels) rather than the usual 1,024 x 768
pixels of the 15” panels.
I asked to see it running windows at 1,280 x 1,024
rather
than the PC World rolling presentation shown at the 1,024 x 768 – the
native
resolution of the 14” and 15” panels - that it was being used
at
(so that I could see it working *WITHOUT*
interpolating the image up to be full screen). I was told that it
wasn’t
possible because the HP Pavillion PC that was
driving
the bank of LCD displays *COULDN’T
RUN
AT THAT RESOLUTION* - biggest load of bollocks I’ve ever
heard
of course and when I queried that this just didn’t seem feasible - a
modern
PC unable to generate a 1,280 x 1,024 image – the guy got quite
snotty
and insisted that he knew the capabilities of their demonstration kit
better than
I did.
(This was the same guy who insisted that the
“Power
Pivot” feature of a 17” Samsung LCD was that the stand adjusted
for
height … when I explained that it was that the screen rotated so that
you
could use it portrait or landscape he asked why you would ever want to do
anything like that and carried on insisting that it was such an obscure
thing
to want to do and that the “Power Pivot” was definitely that
the
stand adjusts for height and tilt!)
Anyway … this Sharp 16” display has both 15
Pin
high density D and DVI connectors and runs out at £580 ish
>from
these monitors and are they any good? I might go back and take my laptop to
try
this Sharp 16” LCD with but I fear that I may well get kicked out
again.
I hate incompetent, bolshy and
above all *INCORRECT* sales
staff!
Phil