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1920x1440? Is that on a CRT or an LCD?

One of my biggest frustrations is that I can buy a Dell Latitude
notebook that has a 14" LCD panel running at an impressive 1400x1050 -
but the highest resolution that a freestanding LCD panel will run is a
piddly 1280x1024 - even at 17" or 19"!

A friend of mine actually asked me if it would be possible to rip the
panel out of one of these laptops and run it on his desktop. We would
have had to buy a VGA-->LVDS interface board, and the only one we could
find was a development system that ran over $700.

Has anyone come across any desktop LCD panels in 17" or 19" that will
run at a reasonable resolution (read: 1400x1050 or 1600x1200)?!

Dave

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 02:58 +0000, fnatmed wrote:
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> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Dave VanHorn <dvanhorn@d...> wrote:
> > >   Not too cumbersome. Invest a few bucks in a KVM. I did this a 
> few  months
> > >ago and it's has really improved productivity around here. I 
> personally
> > >like having all my eggs in one basket for development, but....
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> > Hmm.. I tried those before, and had bad luck. but they were just 
> mechanical 
> > switches.
> > Is there better stuff available now?
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> Absolutely.  Some stuff is expensive as hell, but others are pretty 
> good.  I use a Cybex (now Avocent) AutoView 400 myself - very nice.  
> It will talk to regular systems as well as those without PS2 ports, 
> just USB.  It does the keyboard/mouse translation internally, and it 
> works flawlessly.  It will allow two keyboard/monitor/mouse setups 
> to access 8 systems, both at once.
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> I run my dev box and main box at 1920x1440, the game box at 
> 1600x1200 and the CD/DVD burner box at 1280x1024.  It will switch 
> with buttons on the front (it's mounted to the side of the desk at 
> my right) or via key-toggle (Ctrl-Ctrl).
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> I cannot imagine working without it.  It was expensive, and worth 
> every penny.
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> Note - everything is still regular DB15 VGA type connectors.  I 
> don't know of any (affordable) DVI kvm setup out there yet.
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> Dean.
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