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Dell Larger Monitor Sale & Research (No Affiliate Interests)

Filed under: Usability and Human Interface

May
31
2007

Disclosure: None of these are affiliate links. This is not a post for me to make money. I have purchased lots from this vendor and it’s gone well. They took returns with no hassles, so I don’t mind linking to them.

What bothers me is when I go into a business and see folks struggling to use 17″ CRT monitors to try to do work 8 hours daily in programs like Excel. The monitors will be 0.28 or worse pitch, making eye fatigue a clear factor in their work.

While it simply makes my work-day better to have a big set of monitors to do my job, people are making pretty good cases for imporoved productivity, and in stories here, here, and here.. Mary Czerwinski has some fascinating research on multitasking, displays, and interruptions that I encourage you to read over. I especially liked the Diary Study of task switching article and the work on Characterizing Productivity Benefits of Very Large Displays.

Apple would very much like you to buy Cinema Displays. Know this, read the Pfeiffer Report (which Apple Funded) on the topic - it’s well done.

So anyway, www.saveateagle.com has a sale on Dell Monitors, including some terrific 19 and 20-inch ones. They have the Dell 24″ monitors I use, which are really nice, for $649, and the 19″ for $209.95. Either of these are sweet IMO, especially for the price.

Posted by Scott Clark @ 6:22 am  


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