Haven't seen anybody comment on this yet -- if you dig through the actual specs you'll see one reason why this technology hasn't already taken off. The power consumption of the display is 1680 watts. You basically wouldn't want to put anything else on a household circuit with it.
Even for a home desktop machine, and even with a sufficient and silent cooling solution (ignoring cost), there are *still* hard limits on power consumption.
One, you can't heat up the room too much. Relatively few people in the world have air conditioning.
Two, you can't draw too much to plug into your average wall socket (which will have other things on the same circuit).
For both of these, you have to figure the total power of the system including peripherals and power supply efficiency.
-G
I'm pretty sure these panels are made by IBM and were first sold as the IBM T220/T221, introduced back in 2001. I had the pleasure of working with the prototypes well before that, and they're truly amazing displays. They're sized to be able to mimic two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper side-by-side at a jaw-dropping 200+ pixel-per-inch resolution. Color, contrast, brightness, viewing angle, and especially black level were all better than anything I had seen at the time (but that was 2000, 2001). They do stretch the refresh capabilities of the cards and the DVI interface, though, so for those FPS games you might want to look elsewhere.
If you can get to boiling water and clean-up facilities, get a little french press and brew at your desk. French press coffee is excellent (I would say second only to espresso) once you get the details worked out to your personal taste (grind, water temperature, brewing time).
If you can't do the above, or it's just too annoying, get a high-quality thermos that holds enough to get you through the day (or night). A good vacuum thermos can keep coffee scalding hot for many hours.
-G
No contest on this question. My brother has a Motorola 120-series cellular phone which he A) dropped in a bucket of tile adhesive, completely submersing it B) left out in the rain twice, both times with it on, once having to recover it from thick mud, and C) dropped a 50-pound motor assembly on. Looks and works like new except for a small dent from the motor. Unbelievable.
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Haven't seen anybody comment on this yet -- if you dig through the actual specs you'll see one reason why this technology hasn't already taken off. The power consumption of the display is 1680 watts. You basically wouldn't want to put anything else on a household circuit with it.
-G
Even for a home desktop machine, and even with a sufficient and silent cooling solution (ignoring cost), there are *still* hard limits on power consumption. One, you can't heat up the room too much. Relatively few people in the world have air conditioning. Two, you can't draw too much to plug into your average wall socket (which will have other things on the same circuit). For both of these, you have to figure the total power of the system including peripherals and power supply efficiency. -G
I'm pretty sure these panels are made by IBM and were first sold as the IBM T220/T221, introduced back in 2001. I had the pleasure of working with the prototypes well before that, and they're truly amazing displays. They're sized to be able to mimic two 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper side-by-side at a jaw-dropping 200+ pixel-per-inch resolution. Color, contrast, brightness, viewing angle, and especially black level were all better than anything I had seen at the time (but that was 2000, 2001). They do stretch the refresh capabilities of the cards and the DVI interface, though, so for those FPS games you might want to look elsewhere.
If you can get to boiling water and clean-up facilities, get a little french press and brew at your desk. French press coffee is excellent (I would say second only to espresso) once you get the details worked out to your personal taste (grind, water temperature, brewing time). If you can't do the above, or it's just too annoying, get a high-quality thermos that holds enough to get you through the day (or night). A good vacuum thermos can keep coffee scalding hot for many hours. -G
No contest on this question. My brother has a Motorola 120-series cellular phone which he A) dropped in a bucket of tile adhesive, completely submersing it B) left out in the rain twice, both times with it on, once having to recover it from thick mud, and C) dropped a 50-pound motor assembly on. Looks and works like new except for a small dent from the motor. Unbelievable.