When we were in Jacksonville FED EX tried to deliver our new computer to us. We didn’t receive a shipping notice so I was surprised to see when I checked on line that they had already made 2 attempts to deliver it. I ended up calling them and requesting they defer delivery until we are home. They agreed to and so now we will have the new desktop I bought on Woot.
Now we need a monitor. The computer is a high-end HP with lots of storage, an excellent video card, a TV tuner and lots of other bells and whistles. It’s more computer than we needed but the price offered made it a great buy. We’ve been researching monitors all week. For technical reasons the computer should have a 22-24-inch monitor. I had just about decided that I couldn’t afford a 24’ monitor until we went out today and looked at them. The internet is no substitute for boots on the ground viewing. We are going to use the computer for photo and video editing and for viewing HD DVD and if we ever decide to spring for digital cable it can serve as an HD TV. The computer can also be used as a DVR for recording TV shows. Anyway, back to the monitors, we found there is a significant improvement in resolution when you go from 22 to 24 (along with an increased price). The difference is worth the price. We visited Wal-Mart, Sams, Circuit City, Office Depot and Best Buy. At Best Buy they had a 24-inch HP monitor hooked up with an HP computer with the same configuration of the one we bought. It was impressive.
We left Best Buy and went to the Sony outlet to see if they had monitors. They didn’t. After about 2 hours of deliberation and discussion with Penny I decided that since we thought the 24” monitors were worth it I would go home and look some more. Penny thought we wouldn’t gain much by waiting. I thought about what she said and decided she was right. I went back to Best Buy to get the HP—and they didn’t have one in stock. Not to worry they had 2 in the warehouse. So I paid for it and they will deliver it to the house by the end of the week.
Now we need a monitor. The computer is a high-end HP with lots of storage, an excellent video card, a TV tuner and lots of other bells and whistles. It’s more computer than we needed but the price offered made it a great buy. We’ve been researching monitors all week. For technical reasons the computer should have a 22-24-inch monitor. I had just about decided that I couldn’t afford a 24’ monitor until we went out today and looked at them. The internet is no substitute for boots on the ground viewing. We are going to use the computer for photo and video editing and for viewing HD DVD and if we ever decide to spring for digital cable it can serve as an HD TV. The computer can also be used as a DVR for recording TV shows. Anyway, back to the monitors, we found there is a significant improvement in resolution when you go from 22 to 24 (along with an increased price). The difference is worth the price. We visited Wal-Mart, Sams, Circuit City, Office Depot and Best Buy. At Best Buy they had a 24-inch HP monitor hooked up with an HP computer with the same configuration of the one we bought. It was impressive.
We left Best Buy and went to the Sony outlet to see if they had monitors. They didn’t. After about 2 hours of deliberation and discussion with Penny I decided that since we thought the 24” monitors were worth it I would go home and look some more. Penny thought we wouldn’t gain much by waiting. I thought about what she said and decided she was right. I went back to Best Buy to get the HP—and they didn’t have one in stock. Not to worry they had 2 in the warehouse. So I paid for it and they will deliver it to the house by the end of the week.
We are moving the old desktop to the sewing room. It is capable of running Penny’s sewing programs. It will also serve out its golden years doing other duties as assigned.
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