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It’s been a long time that I’ve been wrestling with my currently monitors.  My left monitor has been fritzing out to purple for quite some time and my right monitor has this tendency to just start violently shaking all the time.

I’ve been avoiding the problem partially through practice.  If I bend the end of the monitor cable just right I can get the color to stay, and the violent shaking (and sometimes screaming) are infrequent.  But today was the last straw.

My left monitor shot to purple at the slightest accidental tap of my desk, and when I tried to twist the monitor cable just so… the red channel snapped leaving me with a very sickly green monitor.  Coupled with my tax return and several elements of back pay, it was time to make things happen.

So I caved in and purchased a couple new monitors.  I don’t know if this really should be at the top of my purchasing priority list, but I know that it’s going to be a severe increase in my quality of life when I get rid of these frequent monitor induced headaches and extra frustration.

Hopefully in a week or two I’ll be the proud owner of two of these bad boys:

This monitor is about as close as I could find to the monitors that I have at work that were still pretty heavily discounted for university students.  The deal was sweet, less than $600 dollars for the pair of them.  When I first started looking at buying monitors, I thought that I was going to end up paying over $600 each for a decent set of Dell flat panels.

I’ll certainly be giving a quick review (or at least a brief celebration) when they come in.

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