About a year or so ago, I replaced my 17″ monitor, which was starting to go a bit fuzzy with a 19″ one picked up from Freecycle. Both were CRT monitors – huge and not the most energy efficient solution but capable of yielding excellent colour and not dependent on what angle you viewed them from for the picture you saw.
Unfortunately the 19″ monitor started to go this week, with short spell when the brightness of the screen dropped right down. Doing a lot of graphics work, that is a showstopper for me and so last night I popped down to the local PC World to pick up a replacement.
Consequently, I am the owner of an ASUS VW202S 20″ widescreen LCD monitor. It works okay although doesn’t seem as crisp as my previous one (not that there were any CRT options to choose from). At least it gives me more desk space.
The packaging was fairly environmentally friendly – it was an ex-display model, sold as seen, so I just got a bit of bubble wrap to protect it rather than a box and polystyrene. I still have to dispose of the old one, which will need to go to the local dump rather than being dropped in my bin. I wonder if anyone on Freecycle will find a use for a 19″ CRT monitor that doesn’t work perfectly?
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