Last week I had the opportunity to test out a Power Mac G5 system that included two (yes, two) Apple 30-inch Cinema HD displays. You can see a picture of them flanking my PowerBook here. It was an astounding array of over 8 million pixels, which I wrote about in my Seattle Times column.
Since buying a PowerBook G4, I’ve used the built-in display as my only display, which has worked well. But having those two 30s reinforced what my colleagues have been saying for years: multiple monitors are better. However, I don’t have $6,000 to throw at new monitors, so I went to Dealmac.com to see what was available.
Dell has been offering stellar LCD deals, so I snatched up the Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1″ Widescreen, normally $750, but with the Dealmac coupon codes priced at around $525. It arrived, I set it up, and I’m really liking the extra screen real estate. I keep email and Web pages on one screen, iChat and other applications on another.
So today, I figured I’d get another one to have at home (where I work part of the time), and stumbled across an even better deal on the same display. For about $450 total, I got the same 20.1″ display and a pack of CD-R media (required to bump the overall price into a bracket that took advantage of another coupon code). That’s a $75 savings over the course of about six days. Those deals appear and disappear quickly, so there’s no telling what’s going to be available on any given day. But it’s definitely worth checking out.
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 