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Monitor One-Upmanship From IBM

Posted by timothy on from the awful-lot-of-justifyin' dept.

openSoar writes: "So here is a solution for your lounge or media room setup and a nice display for your office. 61 inches of plasma sounds sweet but a $28K price tag doesn't. The IBM LCD will do 3840x2400 which would make me SO much more productive ;-)" Who says 200dpi is only for the labs? I'd rather have two of these than one 61" display anyhow. 3840 x 2400 would mate nicely with the Nikon D1x I also don't have.

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  1. not so expensive... by motherhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    it only costs 18K

    1. Re:not so expensive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      it only costs 18K

      Is this because they throw away every screen that comes with a dead pixel? If that's the case, I'd like to know where IBM's landfill is located. ;)

  2. $18k joygasm by yokimbo · · Score: 3, Funny

    when you think about it, it's cheaper than a wife and kids...

  3. I like the Add to Cart button by melevitt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you think they'll get many impulse buy sales?

  4. Re:Confusing write up. by iceburn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh, maybe everybody who submits a story should make it confusing like this one. That way, more /.ers would have to actually follow the links and read the stories before commenting ;^)

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  5. Re:QUXGA-W by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why don't manufacturers use a simple naming convention [...] 3840x2400

    Using screen resolution would be a good idea in principle, but marketing people haven't found a way to cheat with those numbers yet, so they don't like it. Remember, these guys are used to measuring the size of a screen diagonally, counting the black border, rounding up to the next integer inch, and adding one for luck.

  6. Hey, IBM isn't so bad... by neema · · Score: 3, Funny

    They have a cool monthly plan where you pay only 566 dollars a month, 288 required hours of slave work from your children and your soul. I figure I can get this baby easy.

  7. 18k by donabal · · Score: 2, Funny

    18k isn't too bad.

    didnt someone say that 640k would be enough for everyone?

    --donabal

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  8. Hey, Tim by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny
    Dropping a few hints, hoping Santa reads /. and will load up his sleigh with these goodies?


    Uh... not a bad idea, I hope writing Christmas lists online hasn't been patented yet.

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  9. Re:QUXGA-W by haruharaharu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why don't manufacturers use a simple naming convention instead of these hideously long acronyms

    Hey, they could use the japanese convention: Graphics Alpha 3 EX Perfect!!.

    (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name)
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