For instance, did you know that the little popup for new tweets on Tweetdeck is actually a spikey little guy, and not just a circle?
Sorry; it occurs to me that many of you still aren’t following me on Twitter (and why not, I might ask?), and don’t realize that I’ve been raving about a new monitor I bought on Newegg a few days ago for a damn reasonable price. I was replacing the great honking 19” CRT monitor my parents bought with our first computer back in 1998, an old and permanently smudged Gateway VX900, pictured below for your review.
That dinosaur got me through a good many years of computer tomfoolery. It was the screen that brought me my first ever home computing experience, and later it served as a second screen for my second hand laptop in college, before becoming my primary monitor when I built my first desktop last year. Of course, a time had to come when the hulking beast was simply too heavy to be hauling around and too big to leave me any useable desk space. So, I made the buying move, and picked up a 24” LCD from Asus. I was a little nervous, I’ve gotta tell ya, because there were some mixed reviews. This seemed like the perfect price/quality point for what I was after. However, once I got this girl plugged in…well, I’ll let you see for yourself.
I’m no color/visual snob, so maybe some of you will say this is not all that cool, but I’m blown away by it. Vibrant colors and a screen that’s bigger than my poor TV…how can I not love this thing. It’s going into the man cave once my wife and I move to a bigger place where there’s room for such a wondrous room, where I can hook it up to my Xbox 360 as well, and game in HD for the first time in my own home. Oh, how I love getting new stuff.
That’s enough waxing geekosophical; keep an eye out for my product review on GDGT when I’ve had a chance to put her through some more paces.
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If I were to ever have such an area as a man cave it would be lined with leather bound books and hewn from solid mahogany.
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