ViewSonic shows 200 dpi display

prostoalex writes "On Intel Developer Forum ViewSonic introduced its 200 dpi display. The 22.2 inch 3840x2400 monitor will sell for around $8,000." Maybe there's hope for all those obsessive folks trying to run Quake 3 at insane resolutions. Provided they'd rather have a monitor than eight grand!

reinvention

[sloth jr]

years and years ago ('88/'89), some companies
were trying to sell 300dpi monitors to the
desktop publishing set. No one bought them,
and they died. There's not much point in them
now, given the wide-spread use of anti-aliasing.

I wonder how useful this will be for CAD - won't
the thin lines be too difficult to see?

IBM T221 is $8400

[jlund]

The article makes it sound as if the IBM is still 20k, this is not the case.

http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/Pr od uctDisplay?cntrfnbr=1&prmenbr=1&prnbr=9503DG3&cntr y=840&lang=en_US

Too small

[bobdehnhardt]

I'm currently running my 21-inch monitor at 1280x1024, and the icons and text are starting to get a little difficult to see (yeah, go ahead and laugh now - you'll break 40 someday, too). At 3840x2400 on a display marginally bigger than this one, the icons will be about 1cm square.

This thing may find a place in CAD work, but the raw resolution will be utterly useless in normal day-to-day applications.

Re:Reviewer.

[unicron]

We used to try that shit on beer companies in college. We rarely got a reply but every now and again we'd find a case or 2 of beer waiting for us at the P.O. Box, completely wrapped up and inconspicuous. Hell, we even got bottles because they weighed less.

I've heard cigarette manufacturers are a lot more giving than the beer companies, but I never tried it.