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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:59:45
Message-Id: 201009082259.13853.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo by Grant Edwards
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 22:14 on Wednesday 08 September 2010, Grant
2 Edwards did opine thusly:
3
4 > On 2010-09-08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > I need to shut up now. My hatred of pixelated display devices is
6 > > showing. I accept an LCD for my notebook as CRTs just don't fit, but
7 > > nothing beats a real CRT imho for image quality.
8 >
9 > I presume you mean a nice monochrome display not one of those fuzzy
10 > color things with the individual phosphor dots/bars on the screen. It
11 > was a sad day I was finally forced to give up my big, razor-sharp Sun
12 > grayscale monitor for one of those small, fuzzy-looking, color things.
13
14 No, I mean insanely high quality colour CRTs with out of this world dpi. The
15 kind where you cannot discern individual triads at normal viewing distance.
16 Not quite medical quality (I'm not that crazy) but close.
17
18 Like I said in my response to Paul, a poor colour CRT has got to be the worst
19 thing out there. Most of those colour things are like that. But the opposite
20 does exist.
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23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com