[K12OSN] LCD 17 vs. 15?

[Martin Woolley]

On Tuesday 25 Apr 2006 20:07, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On 4/25/06, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> > any thoughts? We need to buy a couple of dozen. I know what I'd get for
> > home use but wondering what others experiences are for school use. We
> > have 15" (1024 x 768) in our lab which seem to work fine and many of our
> > old CRTs are 800 x 600. For k-5, would 1280 X 1024 help or just be a
> > superfluous expense?
>
> native res on 17" is 1280x1024 so you will have a little more X
> traffic on eth0 plus if you want 24bit color you need to make sure
> your video cards have enough ram (4MB min). But 17" LCDs are so cheap
> now it's almost not worth buying a 15".
 
Agreed. I think that is was cheaper for us to buy 17" than 15" but then we did 
buy 100 in one go.  This was an impressive day and I wish I'd had a camera to 
hand.  A huge semi-trailer arrived and backed up the narrow road along side 
of the school.  The two pallets would have easily fitted into a small van but 
the delivery company didn't have one (apparently). We grabbed a few of the 
boys and carried them into the IT block in the pouring rain.  A couple of 
weeks later, I had them all deployed and a stack of assorted 17" CRT monitors 
to get rid off.  LCDs are much easier to store!  Here is a piccy of them 
stacked up in the classroom www.openhgs.org.uk/albums/techsupp/out2.jpeg

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Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna


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