I would have an issue with having that much visual real estate on a single monitor -- if the monitor/video card section went south, there'd be no more screen. Any way to get that into a more modular form?
("Oh yeahhhhhh!")
So over the past 6 months, my 8yo VGA monitor has gone from perfect to needing a minute's warm-up, to needing 5-10 minutes. As this is an electronic failure in the making, there is nothing which *I* can do about it. It's 1/3rd of my screenage. I replaced it, for US$10, with a fine Dell unit I'd bought some time ago.
My 10yo DVI-D unit (another 1/3rd) got a flicker in it, about 8 years ago. By luck, I found out that if I rapped it on the north-east corner, the flicker disappeared. But it happened often enough that I bought a little 1lb rubber mallet at one of those tool/surplus stores, to simplify things. Well, over the past year or two, the rapping (of necessity) has gotten more frequent, more purposeful, and over more compass points. It's obviously a mechanical failure, and I thought before I nuked the monitor, I would pop the screws and look for a bad solder joint/s.
But the other day, I was in a pawn shop, and asked about (not visually obvious) monitors. The guy pointed nearly to my feet: they had a bunch, turned sideways to fit on the shelves. I bought a beauty Dell 1707fptt -- $400 new. I took it home for $8.
"Jus' sayin'..."
