I just bought a new monitor.\u00a0 And it didn’t cost me as much as I thought it would, either.<\/p>\n
I’ve wanted a new monitor for at least a couple of years now, but I wanted it for more than just being bigger than the 27″ one I had previously.\u00a0 Since the 4K (then 8K) craze hit, I’d wanted to upgrade, but spending $500+ on a computer monitor seemed extravagant.\u00a0 So I wanted to wait until the prices came down and were more reasonable.\u00a0 More in my budget, to put it plainly.<\/p>\n
Brand loyalty wasn’t the most important thing, though I’ve owned many different monitors from many different manufacturers over the years.\u00a0 My previous monitor was an LG, and it worked flawlessly over the time I had it.\u00a0 It was an upgrade over the 24″ square monitor I had before it, and before that, I believe I had a 15″ monitor.\u00a0 I’ve always been interested in going for more real estate regarding what I wanted on the screen; the same goes for television sets.\u00a0 With the advent of LCD and LED TVs (and being digital rather than analog), my appetite for bigger and better<\/em> probably would be in line with most people these days.\u00a0 Our main television is a 37″ I bought from Newegg in ’06, and the one in the den is a 43″ that I purchased in ’15.\u00a0 Neither can broadcast in 4 or 8K, but they work for what they need to.\u00a0 Do I wish to upgrade?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Can I afford it?\u00a0 Not at this time.\u00a0 So we make do with what we have and are grateful for them.<\/p>\n Which brings us back to the new monitor.\u00a0 I’d been more seriously looking since the Black Friday sales of Thanksgiving 2022.\u00a0 Even then, I wasn’t finding what I was looking for, which was at the very least a 4K monitor either in LED or LCD with a larger screen size than the 27″ I currently had.\u00a0 My computer desk is rather roomy, so it does have the space for something in the 34-40″ range. Still, I didn’t want to go big and wide; to me, wide made more sense as I could split screen easier than having 2 monitors on the same desk.\u00a0 Too the desk was originally designed for CRT monitors, in that the area where the monitor sits is on a lower level, making the eyeline better for when I look at it.\u00a0 I’ve definitely liked that feature, and even with the newer digital monitors of the past 10 years, they fit in the space just fine.<\/p>\n I wasn’t necessarily looking for a bargain one day, but it fell into my lap.\u00a0 I was browsing through eBay and found a monitor for a really good price.\u00a0 It hit everything I was looking for, AND the price was just too good to pass up.\u00a0 So I went ahead and purchased it.\u00a0 When I hooked it up to my computer, I was beyond giddy.\u00a0 It looks and works great.\u00a0 Movies look great in QHD, and it works flawlessly with the graphics card I upgraded to a bit over a year ago with this in mind.<\/p>\n I’m really pleased with this upgrade.\u00a0 I think I’m set, at least until I might want to build a new desktop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just bought a new monitor.\u00a0 And it didn’t cost me as much as I thought it would, either. I’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,37,27],"tags":[71,72,69,70],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-play","category-tech","tag-computer-upgrades","tag-qhd","tag-computers","tag-monitors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/work-and-play.caff-pow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}