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On the way into work this morning I passed a garage sale, and my eagle eye spotted an Apple monitor amongst the merchandise. I almost stopped, but then realized that I would be late to work, so I sighed and drove on. On my way home from work, I remembered the sale, and saw it was still running. I pulled over, jumped off my scooter, and ran over to find that my suspicions were correct, and that there was indeed an Apple monitor for sale, and it still hadn’t been sold! $15 dollars later, I was the proud owner of an Apple Multiple Scan 20 monitor. Its 20”, and supports 1280×1024 at 75Hz. Score!

I also bought a nice Swiss Army laptop bag, which was also $15 and brand new (it still had its original product tag on it). Its a very durable and cool bag, and I’m sure I’ll find something good to do with it. I even picked up a pair of shoes I thought would fit Madalene, because they are pretty sweet shoes. However, they were a bit too small. No big deal, I’m sure we can find someone that they will fit, they are a women’s 6 1/2.

I had to scoot home and get the car in order to pick up the monitor, but it was worth it. 20” of goodness is now gracing my PC. I’ve got a bit of a quandary now, because I have a very nice Hitachi 19” monitor on my Mac, which supports great resolutions and looks wonderful, but now there is this multiple scan 20” which doesn’t support as high of resolutions, and doesn’t look quite as good, but is still larger. The higher resolutions of the Hitachi aren’t in use right now, because I don’t have a very good video card in the Mac, though I’m planning on getting one at some point. So which monitor goes on which computer? Well, for now, the 20” will stay on the PC, because the slightly larger size doesn’t fully account for the slightly lower visual quality. Also, I like to watch movies on the PC, to keep the Mac open for real work, and the larger monitor will look nice for that, despite the fact that it isn’t as well converged.

Either way, I’m happy.

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