Nice. But I think I'd miss the sweet way my antediluvian monitor pops, snaps and goes black every now and then. :cool:

Gotta get a new rig. :p

I had a Matrox when they first came out and it was OK. But I knew which model to buy. The ones I had to support (I was tech support technician back then) were a nightmare. Their drivers were horrible. Frankly, the only reason mine worked was because I was a tech that knew how to tweak it.

Honestly--those experiences tainted my perception. As a small shop computer tech these days, I still don't read any decent endorsements of Matrox products. They just seem to lag behind other companies by a generation or two and I've read that the drivers are still so-so (at best).

I shouldn't have said "Absolutely don't buy it" as I'm not up to speed on exactly what capabilities the cards have. (Maybe they've improved?) I just have never seen them put out anything jaw-dropping in my years as a geek. And a set up like the one you pointed out should have jaw-dropping components to make it worth the cost.

Advice: You've already said it. Tread carefully and look for quality reviews. If it's good, MaximumPC magazine will probably do a review. Very good magazine that isn't tainted by getting an advertising check a week early.

My gut reaction to Matrox (based on my experience) is NO.

Cheers!!!

Oh man i want one of those!

Too thin. I like my monitors to be perfect squares. I also don't care for how long it is. Dear God you need a lot of space for it, and space on my desk is something that I lack at the moment (old games, books, DVD's, pens, pencils, bills, many other things . . .)

How much is the accompanying 14 foot-wide mousemat you need to be able to scroll from one side of the screen to the other?:rotfl:

:D Chock

You mean this one? http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/r...grade-surface/ :D
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-S

Now, I wonder if work will buy me one - 'Those planning spreadsheets are a hell of a size nowadays boss!'

Much obliged for your advice.

Some more info on the monitor above:

We must have impressed Alienware's reps with our super-elite Crysis skills this evening, because it only took a little prodding for them to give up some more details on that awesome curved DLP display:
It's definitely coming out in the second half of the year, but the model we've been seeing is just a late engineering prototype -- everything from the internals to the casing is probably going to change.

• There are four LED-backlit DLP projectors inside, which explains the lines in the image above, but the final version will show a seamless image.
• It's going to be an Alienware product, but it was developed by an ODM called Ostendotech.
• There's definitely some heavy-duty image-processing going on to make the images appear correctly -- the Ostendotech guy called it "the secret sauce" -- but most games will support it with very little effort, apparently.
• The ideal viewing position is directly in the middle at about two feet away. That's when the image seamlessly appears to wrap all the way around you, and it's just as sweet as you'd expect.
• Pricing information is still infuriatingly non-specific: the best we got was "more than a 17-inch flat panel and less than a Kia." Thanks, guys.

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Sure beats the hell out of my pride and joy http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img231...shockedvi8.gif

http://www.trustedreviews.com/displa...een-Monitor/p1