I finally replaced my 75+ lb 19″ CRT with a 22″ LCD. It was a little tricky getting the widescreen configured with Linux. The xorg video driver I was using didn’t support 1680×1050 so I had to go to the closed ATI binary. That was a blessing in disguise since I was having trouble running Google Earth anyway. Now I’ve got plenty of screen real estate and much better 3D performance to boot. Next I’m going to use some of my Christmas bonus to get a new computer and an LCD HD-TV. 40″ should suffice. My six year old computer (dual 1.8Ghz Xeon processors with 1.5GB RAM) is still plenty fast but I really want another Shuttle mini. I used to have 6-7 computers in my bedroom but now I want a really small technology footprint now. I’m pretty much done with the whole geek phase.
