{"id":135,"date":"2008-11-17T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-11-17T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:35:18","slug":"new-monitor-tempted-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/17\/new-monitor-tempted-but-why\/","title":{"rendered":"New monitor. Tempted, but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t treated myself to any geek purchases for as long as I can remember. i was waiting till I finished Kudos 2, and then combining that with my recently passed birthday, I think I can justify splashing out.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, I am a man of simple needs. The only things I want to buy are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new house<\/li>\n<li>A Prius<\/li>\n<li>Maybe a new monitor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the first two are out of the question because they cost tons of money and I don&#8217;t have much, but the monitor is a possibility. The problem is, there really is nothing much wrong with my current one (a\u00a0 19&#8243; iiyama one)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ciao.com\/iuk\/images\/products\/normal\/783\/product-6282783.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> So there is the option if buying a newer, bigger one, probably a 24&#8243; widescreen one like a mate of mine got recently. This would mean a bigger screen res and desktop, which could in theory be handy for coding, and could in theory make games look mroe awesome. But Do I really NEED it? Is it not a bit gratuitous to buy one when I already have a working one sat here on my desk.<\/p>\n<p>A new monitor is about \u00a3260 here. And it&#8217;s a business expense, and I&#8217;d claim the VAT back, so it&#8217;s slightly cheaper than that. On the one hand, it&#8217;s not a lot of money, on the other hand it&#8217;s profits from over 26 games!<\/p>\n<p>Anyone here gone from a 19&#8243; monitor to a 24&#8243; widescreen one and gone OMFGZ! TEH AWESOME!?<\/p>\n<p>talk me into\/out of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t treated myself to any geek purchases for as long as I can remember. i was waiting till I finished Kudos 2, and then combining that with my recently passed birthday, I think I can justify splashing out. The thing is, I am a man of simple needs. The only things I want to<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; New monitor. Tempted, but why?<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/17\/new-monitor-tempted-but-why\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}