“Why do you have six monitors?”……

……Someone asked the author Terry Pratchett. His reply: “Because I don’t have enough space for eight”.

Well, I am not sure I want or need six monitors, but it is certainly an improvement having two.

The one on the right is my brand new 24″ Apple LCD monitor. The one on my left is my brand new 23″ piece of crap Samsung monitor (the previous 25″ Samsung is part of the “get the Xbox running on the old modelling table and then play games endlessly” project).

Here is what is wrong with the Samsung monitor:
1. It’s crap.

Here is what is right with the Samsung monitor:
1. It’s cheap.

Here is what is wrong with the Apple monitor:
1. You need the stupid little Apple plug to connect it, which means it only works with recent Apple laptops and certain Mac Pros.
2. The cable between the stupid little plug and the monitor is too short.
3. It’s got a camera and microphone and speakers and I don’t need any of those.
4. It hasn’t got an HDMI socket and I might need that.
5. It is insanely expensive.

Here is what is right with the Apple monitor:
1. None of the above negative points matter because this thing is utterly, utterly gorgeous.

When it is turned off it is an orgasm of brushed metal and glass. When it is turned on, well, everything just looks so damn good, and they look equally damn good from any angle, unlike the Samsung which looks varying colours of crap depending on the viewing angle. Photos pop out of the screen in a way that had she who must be obeyed actually praising some of my shots. Then we tried a movie; stunning. Yes, it is glossy and if the screen is displaying a substantial percentage of black you can use it as a mirror to squeeze your spots (it wipes down easily). But in practice you don’t notice the reflections.

Fabulous monitor, I just wish I had two of them, or maybe six.