On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Chris Ribe <<a href="mailto:chrisribe@gmail.com">chrisribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>More anecdotal evidence:<br><br>My computer here at work is an older Dell machine (probably almost 3 years now). It came with a video card that had a VGA and a DVI output both available on the card (GeForce4 MX 440). Because of work purposes, I have Windows on the machine, but I have a second machine sitting next to it that runs CentOS 5. The CentOS machine only has a VGA output. I have the Windows machine set up as dual monitors with monitor 1 being through the VGA connector and 2 being through the DVI. The VGA connector runs to a KVM that is also connected to the linux box. My monitors are identical Dell 19" LCD's that have both a VGA and DVI connector. Running at 1280x1024 on both monitors, I can not look at the monitor and tell which monitor is connected via which method. I had to give it a lot of thought as to how I wired it up in order to type this message.<br>
<br>So while DVI may have more future capabilities, I have a hard time recommending that anybody go out of their way to get it on a video board or monitor. In fact, when I bought my TV last Thanksgiving, I went out of my way to get one that had a VGA connector in it :).<br>
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