Flat Screen Monitors
If you’ve been wandering around places where computers are sold you may have noticed that in the last 12 months or so there has been a quiet revolution going on. The good old CRT monitor that have known and loved since last century has gone and in it’s place there are all those bright, shiny and big flat screen monitors.
That doesn’t mean that the bulky old monitors have gone from homes across the world, it just means that no one is selling them as part of a computer system any more. I’m sure that most of the people who are reading this are able to do so thanks to a CRT monitor.
However, let me suggest that if you are you really should be thinking of pensioning that old monitor off. You might think that it’s still working fine but I can tell you that image quality degrades as the monitor ages. You won’t notice it because you live with it every day but it is happening.
You also need to think about getting rid of that old monitor because they are a definite health hazard. They emit harmful radiation that, over time, can have a terrible effect on your health.
And you also need to think about ditching that old monitor simply because of its size. It takes up a huge amount of room on any desk and you won’t believe how much space suddenly becomes available when you pension off that old monitor.
Just in case you don’t believe me on the space issue here is a picture of my workspace. Don’t be put off by the three monitors - that’s a productivity thing that I’ll talk about some other time - but as you can see I have three flatscreen monitors and each of them is a 17″ model.
If I still had to rely on my old chunky CRT’s I would only be able to fit two monitors on there and I would lose a lot of the desk space that I currently have.
Finally the cost of flat screen monitors has come down in the last few months to the point where they really are affordable. Here in Australia you can pick up a new 17″ flat screen monitor for around $300 and when you do buy one you will wonder how you ever managed to live without it.