Thursday, July 13, 2006

The Mattress Principal

If you're lucky, you spend at least 8 hours a night in bed. With 1/3 of your life on your back, buy a good mattress. The same logic applies to monitors. If you're going to stare at something all day long, spend some money, splurge and save your eyes.

The SyncMaster 214T by Samsung is, simply, the best monitor I have ever encountered. The image is crystal clear, bright and so easy on the eyes that you will never be content with even the best conventional displays. The 21 + inch screen can rotate into a portrait position for more easily scrolling though web pages, documents and virtually anything other than spreadsheets. I actually run two SyncMasters on my primary desktop computer - one in landscape and one in portrait mode.

The cost is reasonable - at just over $500 a pop if you hunt around. Our Dell rep actually beat the best deal we could find elsewhere - and even threw in free shipping. With the exception of perhaps our Blackberry rollout, I have received more positive feedback from attorneys and staff on this particular product than anything else we have deployed.

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