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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 11:11 PM
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Wife's looking for a new 22" REGULAR size monitor not widescreen
Any ideas?

Every online store displays only widescreen..

*sigh*

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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 11:30 PM
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1. You mean a regular aspect ratio like VGA?
What you probably want is a QXGA (2048x1536):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Vector_Video_Standards2.svg">Video Display Standards

Here's a 22 inch: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-54982">T221 22.2-inch QXGA-W Flat Panel Color Monitor. Don't know if anyone ever made a 24 inch in that as
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 11:42 PM
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3. Is that thing still available?

It was produced in 2003. Not many monitors still being produced that were first shipped that long ago.

And look at this: Maximum Resolution 3840 x 2400

That thing was for a graphic artist with a budget. Wonder what it cost.

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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 11:45 PM
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4. Probably not
but it was all I could find with a quick search. It seems to be a standard seen more often in laptops than desktops.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 11:39 PM
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2. Change her mind ...
Edited on Wed Jul-01-09 11:40 PM by RoyGBiv
It'll be easier and cheaper.

I've seen some 21.x inch monitors with standard display resolutions, but they're getting expensive, like $500 and up.

You can still find an assortment of 20" standard screens. Again, these will be more expensive than the widescreen counterparts.

Generally speaking, the so-called standard sizes aren't being produced in any quantity anymore.

Out of curiosity, is there some specific reason she wants the standard screen rather than widescreen?

I ask for a couple reasons. If you're willing to pay for it, you could find some 22+ inch screens with standard resolutions, but these cost a mint. One I saw was $1800. It's a specialty monitor for use by people with specific needs.

The other reason is I wonder if she may have the same prejudice against them I once had. Prior to getting the one I had now, I refused to go widescreen because I was losing pixels with it. The common 1680x1050 native resolution provides fewer pixels than the 1600x1200 you get with standard resolution monitors of an equitable size. (In reality, I still prefer the CRT monitors, but I'd have needed back surgery if I kept lugging around my 21" I had for so long.)

I finally gave in and got a 24" with a native 1900x1200 resolution, and I've never looked back. It's widescreen, but it's not the "widescreen" one associates with television, i.e. having the black bars across the bottom and the top. (That was my mother's trepidation at getting one.)

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katkat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-21-09 07:58 AM
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5. not sure
Edited on Tue Jul-21-09 08:00 AM by katkat
I'm not sure if this is her situation, but I hate the wide screen, short height shiny screen displays that HP now has on ALL its notebooks. They suck for document preparation and reading. My old HP Pavilion had a perfect screen, so I bought a refurbished Pavilion of a similar model on ebay from tsfsystems. They seem like nice guys, and customized the Pavilion by adding more memory at my request before shipping.

Later edit: Another reason for not liking them is one of them and my cat can't both fit in my lap at the same time.
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