24-inch monitor with pivot function from Iiyama!

Hi! Richard Sadowsky here… I hope this publishes correctly… My blogging area is “tools for the translator” and related things. Here’s a story that happened today.
There’s an ongoing campaign in Japan now that offers 50% off the standard exorbitant highway/bridge fees for Saturdays and Sundays (not to mention late-night discounts). My wife Jackie and I take advantage of this campaign to cross the Naruto Bridge heading south from Awaji Island to Shikoku…for some shopping on weekends sometimes.

Today we decided to stop in at Masala, the Indian restaurant we like in Tokushima, and from there go to a Marunaka shopping center nearby. While she did food shopping I went to a PC Depot (both the Mac and PC buildings). I’ve been checking on monitors every chance I get… looking to upgrade from the 19-inch BenQ FP93V monitor I bought two years ago for 32,000 yen. See:

http://www.swet.jp/index.php/weblog/comments/new_technology_and_the_j_e_translator_2/

Today for the same price you can get a 24-inch wide monitor… and I was thinking how it would be nice to use the pivot function built in with the latest MacBook (it depends on the graphics chipset…which is in the MacBook is an nVidia GeForce 9400M). When I asked at the store, the only brand that the guy said would pivot is the Nanao Flexscan. But checking the prices for that brand…whew! Expensive. I’m sure they’re great monitors, but I’m just a translator.

So I did some more checking around on Kakaku.com and found two models that pivot:
The ProLite B2409HDS-B PLB2409HDS-B1 (that’s a black model, there’s also a white), and the LG Flatron Wide LCD W2442PA-BF. These two models happen to be the #2 and #3 bestselling monitors right now on Kakaku.com (http://kakaku.com/pc/lcd-monitor/) (behind the BenQ E2200HD). The ProLite sells for about 26,000 yen and the LG Flatron for about 29,000 yen.

I figure two years is about the right time to upgrade. If I weren’t traveling overseas next month, the ProLite would be on my desk by next week. (I also like the power-saving function, the built-in speakers, HDMI connection as well as D-sub and DVI…though it’s slightly heavy at 7.7 kg.)

It would certainly help for those fine print PDFs that I have to blow up and extend across monitors (to the MacBook) with my current setup. I’m sure it would boost productivity. At least that’s how I would justify the expense to my wife. Sometimes I’m more productive sitting with the computer in my lap in another room with wireless Internet turned off, of course…


Posted by Richard Sadowsky on 02/15 at 09:55 PM

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