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JoelK · 2004-02-26, 07:17 AM

I'd personally get a 19" CRT monitor. 1280x1024 for $150, and for gaming or other motion applications and photo editing, it definitely works better. The higher resolution will also be better. The advantage of an LCD is that it is a bit sharper, usually brighter, and of course thin and light. A 17" 1280x1024 LCD (comparable to that 19" CRT) is about $400-600.

Laptops are great, but you have to spend quite a bit more than with a desktop. You can build a pretty rocking desktop for about $1000. Step down from the latest 3D graphics (equal to or slightly better than the best laptop 3D graphics), big hard drive, even a DVD burner. A $1000 laptop is still very much on the low-end in everything. $1500 is really the point where the good laptops begin appearing. Laptops are also a proprietary system, while desktops you build for yourself are completely modular -- if a part fails, you can replace it with a better part for an acceptable price, much like you are considering doing now that your monitor has failed.

So basically it's whatever is worth it for you. Mobility comes with a price.
(Disclaimer: I sell laptops for www.powernotebooks.com)

2004-02-26, 07:17 AM	#3
JoelK EJ22 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 144	I'd personally get a 19" CRT monitor. 1280x1024 for $150, and for gaming or other motion applications and photo editing, it definitely works better. The higher resolution will also be better. The advantage of an LCD is that it is a bit sharper, usually brighter, and of course thin and light. A 17" 1280x1024 LCD (comparable to that 19" CRT) is about $400-600. Laptops are great, but you have to spend quite a bit more than with a desktop. You can build a pretty rocking desktop for about $1000. Step down from the latest 3D graphics (equal to or slightly better than the best laptop 3D graphics), big hard drive, even a DVD burner. A $1000 laptop is still very much on the low-end in everything. $1500 is really the point where the good laptops begin appearing. Laptops are also a proprietary system, while desktops you build for yourself are completely modular -- if a part fails, you can replace it with a better part for an acceptable price, much like you are considering doing now that your monitor has failed. So basically it's whatever is worth it for you. Mobility comes with a price. (Disclaimer: I sell laptops for www.powernotebooks.com)