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Re: suggestions for next release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Smith)
Tue Oct 22 17:23:00 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Smith <eric@goonsquad.spies.com>
To: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com>
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961021173356.15632C-100000@sullivan.bentley.com>
(message from Mark Hamstra on Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:46:34 -0400 (EDT))
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Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@sullivan.bentley.com> wrote:
> I know, it's a question of money; but if you can afford it, decent video
> hardware is one of the most rewarding purchases you can make.
I second that. If you only use computers occasionally maybe you can make
do with a low end card and monitor, but if you're going to spend a substantial
fraction of your life with the computer, you really should have the best
window into cyberspace you can afford.
In my not-so-humble opinion, having a good monitor, keyboard, and chair is
*much* more important than having the latest fast CPU. Of course, I'm not
doing nuclear weapon simulation or other such computation-intensive work.
> Just don't get a job where you have high-end video hardware thrown at you:
> I don't know how I'm ever going to adjust to life without my dual-headed 21"
> X setup --or afford one of my own when it comes time to give this one up.
Some of us have the opposite problem. Because it is so important to me, I
have a reasonably decent setup at home (ok, only a single 20 inch monitor).
But my employer doesn't recognize the productivity benfits of quality
monitors, so at work I only have a 15 inch monitor. :-(
Cheers,
Eric
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