05-17
Down to one…
Welp, my monitor is officially dead. MY monitor. My preferred and default monitor of the two. The one that doesn’t have an annoying dead pixel in the middle of the screen *deep sigh*
I’m going with just a single monitor right now, but it’s proving to be annoying. Dual monitors is very much just a convenience, but gah, when you get used to something it’s so annoying to put up with less. I’m a serious multitasker so I generally have a video playing on my monitor off to the right and I just go about things in my default monitor. I’ve grown very accustomed to this! iTunes is getting a real workout right now since I can’t really watch anything and I can’t seem to just do one thing at a time.
Ryan is almost positive that the transformer is blown in the monitor and supposedly we should be able to find a replacement for like $30. That would be ideal, but otherwise, I’m going to have to shop around for a good one on sale. I need a good 17″ monitor to put next to this one. I just don’t know if I could handle them being different sizes. That’d look too awkward to me.
Of course I could handle getting a whole new dual monitor setup like this one in any size. It’d be nice to get rid of this monitor with the dead pixel altogether! I could kick Ryan for not just exchanging it. He said it didn’t bother him, but dammit, here we are and now it’s MY monitor and it does bother me :-P
Could be worse though, I guess. The power supply to my computer could’ve been blown altogether. I think that’s probably the only thing I dislike about this rain– the potential it has to cause harm to my electronic sources of entertainment.
That and trying to drive in that hunk of metal I’m still borrowing…
Haha, I’ve never done the dual monitor thing. But I do wish I could figure out how to hook my laptop up to my tv, so that I could use the dvd player. I still don’t have a dvd player in my living room. I am the low-tech queen!
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I never even thought about having two until Ryan ended up with a new monitor and asked if I’d want to take mine back and try the dual setup. It was severely low on my list of priorities but now, it’s driving me NUTS. I had my setup, ya know, of what programs run in which window and ugh…now I can’t seem to watch anything on the computer because I can’t sit still long enough to just WATCH and not catch up on blogs at the same time!
And to hook your laptop up to your tv to play dvds, you just need to see what different outputs your laptop supports and what inputs your tv supports. If all else fails, you can always take a pic of your tv inputs and your laptop and show them to someone at Best Buy (or wherever else) and they should be able to hook you up with the right cable.