We finally did it! Replaced the last CRT monitor in the house with a flat panel monitor (hmph... my partner and I have cheapo brand monitors our daughter now has a Dell monitor that came free with my partners Vostro 1700 laptop.)
It's so nice to get rid of that massive, heavy screen off the desktop though.
The good thing is that we got to 'donate' that 17" CRT monitor to Grandma whose 15" CRT monitor was on it's way out. Grandma lives out in the country about an hour's drive away and the last time I went over I fixed her PC for her and noticed that her monitor was green in the corners which meant that the picture tube inside was on it's way out... those green corners gradually creep inward until the screen finally goes 'ping' and goes blank. This kind of experience of course is extremely inconvenient, especially if you don't happen to have a spare monitor hanging around :)
The only problem was actually getting it there. I had to catch a train down and obviously didn't want to carry the monitor too far with it being so heavy. So I had to catch a taxi to the station and again from the station to Grandma's house. I felt like a real dork carry that stupid, clunky, heavy CRT monitor around, loading it in and out of taxis etc. It was a relief when we arrived at Grandma's house :)
And of course Grandma was absolutely thrilled with the new monitor. It's surprising how much difference that extra couple of inches makes, going from a 15 inch monitor to a 17 inch monitor.
She asked me how much I wanted for the monitor and I told her that I didn't want anything for it considering if I hadn't given it to her it would simply have been thrown away. So that really made her day... and gave me a thrill in the process.
It's so nice to get rid of that massive, heavy screen off the desktop though.
The good thing is that we got to 'donate' that 17" CRT monitor to Grandma whose 15" CRT monitor was on it's way out. Grandma lives out in the country about an hour's drive away and the last time I went over I fixed her PC for her and noticed that her monitor was green in the corners which meant that the picture tube inside was on it's way out... those green corners gradually creep inward until the screen finally goes 'ping' and goes blank. This kind of experience of course is extremely inconvenient, especially if you don't happen to have a spare monitor hanging around :)
The only problem was actually getting it there. I had to catch a train down and obviously didn't want to carry the monitor too far with it being so heavy. So I had to catch a taxi to the station and again from the station to Grandma's house. I felt like a real dork carry that stupid, clunky, heavy CRT monitor around, loading it in and out of taxis etc. It was a relief when we arrived at Grandma's house :)
And of course Grandma was absolutely thrilled with the new monitor. It's surprising how much difference that extra couple of inches makes, going from a 15 inch monitor to a 17 inch monitor.
She asked me how much I wanted for the monitor and I told her that I didn't want anything for it considering if I hadn't given it to her it would simply have been thrown away. So that really made her day... and gave me a thrill in the process.
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