Re[2]: 21" monitors and stuff

[Kathleen Padova <kpadova -at- ASICENTRAL -dot- COM>]

     I walked over to our production manager to ask how she justified a 21"
     monitor. She merely pointed to her screen. On one half of her screen
     she had a Quark file open that she was editing. On the other side she
     was monitoring a batch process and had MS Access open so she could
     edit information in a database as she was making changes to the Quark
     file. Sounds like improved efficiency to me.

     I have a 21" monitor so I can have my word processing application and
     the application I am documenting open at the same time.

     Kathleen
     kpadova -at- millstar -dot- com


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Subject: Re: 21" monitors and stuff
Author:  ROBERT -at- SMTP (Robert Plamondon) {robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM} at MHS
Date:    4/9/97 7:30 AM


People doing serious, graphics-intensive work have always used
big monitors.  For the last 15 years or so, all systems designed
for high productivity with graphics-intensive work have had monitors
in the 19-22" range.  Small monitors are for games; big monitors
are for work.  The little monitors (14-17") are an evolutionary
anomaly of the IBM PC branch of the business, which clung to
tiny color monitors longer than anyone else because it clung
to 80x25 text-only applications longer than anyone else.  I would
think that the burden of proof would lie on management, which
should be able to demonstrate that the big-monitor standard for
professional graphics work is somehow inoperative in your case.

        -- Robert

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