Over the past few days I’ve been slobbering about the PC World editors’ dream PC — a machine that is valued at about $30,000. (See “Watching TV While You Compute” and “The Magic of the Solid State Disk.”)

Those of you out there who are my groupies (Thanks, Mom!) know that I consider this the era of the display. (See “Era of the Display.”) That means I was especially interested to see how the experts at PC World would want to view their computing activities. That would require three NEC MultiSync LCD2490WUXiSV Black 24.1 Widescreen LCD Monitors at a quoted price of $3,866.97 (which is just about the best quoted price on PriceGrabber.com too) and a three-monitor X-Top Scalable Multi-Screen Display System from 9xmedia for another $1,000.

About that brand of monitor, to accommodate three 24-inch displays, you’d think you’d need a desk wide enough to accommodate about 66 inches of screen, since these are just under 21.8 inches in width. But that wouldn’t be true. If you’re working on a troll table, like I do, you could set up that 9xmedia display stand to show the monitors, one on top of the other (in which case you’d want to work near your chiropractor, since your neck will, no doubt, go out on you on a regular basis).

Of course, my troll table probably couldn’t handle the 26 pounds x three displays weight, which tallies to 78 pounds, not counting the display stand.

But, oh, the pleasure of working at a bank of monitors that can show up to 16.7 million colors (from a palette of 69 billion). And they include clocks that lets the user schedule power management schemes in order to reduce energy usage.

So I’d say PC World got it right with this one — even though it would force me to upgrade to, oh, a real desk. Imagine! With the power of these monitors, I could view The Complete Series of The Andy Griffith Show in a third of the time — one episode per screen. Yes, I could get into blowing nearly five grand on displays.

Posted on March 15th, 2008 by dian