<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Chris Ribe <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Also, I don't think Dell sells anything with only analog out.<br>
<div><div></div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>We got new desktop PCs for everyone here at work in December, and we went with Dells. The machines are Core 2 Duos with Intel G33 graphics chipsets, i.e. reasonably powerful and modern systems. Along with the computers we ordered Dell 22" LCDs. <br>
<br>When the computers arrived, I was dumbfounded to discover that they only had VGA outputs. I was, frankly, a little bit pissed off. <br><br>The confusion and anger quickly disappeared as soon as I hooked up one of the computers to one of the monitors. The picture is perfect at 1680x1050. For years I have been heavily biased against VGA connections to LCD monitors because I have seen plenty of setups where using VGA instead of DVI resulted in a slightly blurry picture. <br>
<br>Something has improved dramatically since then, though. I don't know if it is the graphics chip, the monitor, or some combination of the two that is responsible, but there doesn't seem to be anything to be gained with a DVI connection on the newest hardware. <br>
<br>Everyday, I sit in front of two monitors at my desk. Both are 1680x1050 22" LCD panels. One is attached, via VGA, to one the new Dell PCs running Ubuntu. The other is attached, via DVI, to a macbook running OS X - nearly identical hardware to the Dell. The VGA driven monitor is about a year newer than the DVI driven one, and it looks *better*. <br>
<br>-chris<br></div></div><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></blockquote></div><br>I believe that Intel released cheap ($30 or $40) PCI-e cards that connect directly into the onboard graphics card and give you DVI-D maybe DVI-I. I think you can then run dual monitors in that setup. I have never tried this, and I of course don't have the link. I believe I found it at the Linux-Intel page.<br>
<br>Jim<br>