[DUG] Monitor Size ?

[Alister Christie]

Q1   Will this be a disadvantage with a widescreen monitor?  Will my CAD 
applications draw squashed circles or can I set them up to maintain the 
correct ratios?

No Pixels will still be square and things will get rendered with the 
correct aspect ratio.  The exception would be if you ran the screen out 
of its native resolution.  If rendering circles is really important 
you'll be able to render a bigger one in a 4:3 ratio screen (because 
they fit better)
> Q2   Will I lose room heightwise and hence have to reduce the vertical 
> picture size?
>  
> Q3   I will probably gain (spare) space horizontally but is this going 
> to be distracting or can it be put to use by better arranging the 
> desktop, or even allowing room to put an application's menus and toolbars?
I've got a wide screen laptop (17") and don't find that too wide.  
Perhaps at 19" or 30" this may be an issue.  Something worthy of note is 
that a 17" widescreen as a fair bit less screen than a 17" 4:3 aspect 
ratio screen - if they were the same price I'd go for the 4:3 screen.

> Q4   I have a considerable investment in CAD applications which I 
> don't want to have to replace for the sake of a new monitor so should 
> I go for it.
That really depends on the CAD applications which I don't know anything 
about, however if they are standard windows applications you probably 
wont have a problem


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Alister Christie
Computers for People
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