[Novalug] Slightly OT: HP monitor prices

cmhowe@patriot.net cmhowe@patriot.net
Thu Aug 30 00:03:52 EDT 2012


List,

earlier I reported that my problem was solved: I had installed Ubuntu
12.04 but that it needed better hardware. The display problem is fixed by
clicking on System => Preferences => Monitor, then selecting 1024 x 760,
which comes in as the third. But stuff falls off the bottom of the screen.

Before I tried tweaking anything i went to Staples to look at HP monitors.
With one exception I've always been happy with an HP product, whatever I
was buying. (The exception was an HP camera, and even there it might have
been ok, but I have lost sight of it and have recently bought a Canon
PowerShot A2200 with loots of features.)

Getting back to the display, which seems to be very good except that stuff
is truncated at the bottom. I might persuade myself to buy either an
HP5203 for $140 (20 ") or an HP 2311 for $230 (23").

My question is, Is the Staples price the best I can hope for?

Charlie




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