After work I grabbed a taxi to get to a shop on the Manchester/Stockport border before 6pm, to pick up a Dell 21" monitor I bought on Ebay. Having gotten there, I realised not only that it is a monster, I would also be utterly unable to carry the thing back to Bolton on public transport. I could have had it delivered for £20, but I saved money on grabbing a minicab back (not). On the way back, it also started really pissing it down, so I had to throw my coat over the beast and carry it in, getting soaked myself. Lottie was in awe when she met the beast, not sure whether it would fit on our desk at all. It did though, and thankfully it works too, at a massive resolution of 1600x1200 and 85 Hz. It's a joy to look at when it's on, but neither of us are sure of it's beauty when it's off. Black may be a good choice if you want to look thinner, but it does not seem to help the largest (though also coolest) CRT monitor I ever got.. For £25. We got the desktop PC at home working again with it, after 10 months or so of non-stop laptop use. Now if only I had brought the GTA III cd-roms that the laptop can't handle!

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