I know I like to complain a lot about my life and my poor excuse for a freelance career, but every now and then, cool things happen and I feel really good.
Case in point: one of my corporate clients have been dragging their collective feet getting the downpayment on this big project to me. It’s a moderately large amount (and I’ve been spending money like water recently) so I had gotten a bit sweaty under the collar waiting for it the past month.
Anyway, I finally got it today — whoopee — and as I was thinking about how to spend it, I came across this beauty of an LCD monitor from LG, now available locally (believe it or not):
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This predecessor of the award-winning 1720B goes by the name 1740BQ and can be yours (and by that, I actually mean, mine) for an as-yet-unknown amount of hard-earned pesetas. (I’ll find out tomorrow when the stores open I guess.) Knowing LG, the artsy-fartsy design probbably means it’ll be on the high-end of the scale, but damn if it doesn’t look worth it. I hope it’s not too expensive though, because I wasn’t planning on spending over 30k on a second monitor (I still have a video card to think about, after all). Spec-wise it’s nothing spectacular, basically your average LCD monitor … except for the response time though, which is listed at 8ms (and should be no more than 12ms unless it’s an utterly shitty model).
My alternate choice is this rather chunky-looking (by comparison) Digimate 1715, which is supposedly a decent unit and goes for less than 19k, cash. You can actually get these at Columbia Superstores, which are oddly well-stocked when it comes to obscure manufacturers.
