So I finally setup my new toys:
- Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD Monitor with Height Adjustable Stand
- Philips PSC805 Aurilium External USB Sound Processor
- Logitech X-530 5.1 Speakers
The screen is so sweet! I was planning to dual screen with my old NEC 17″ LCD, but as you can see from the image, I don’t really have the space for it right now, so I’m probably going to look for a bigger table. Watching videos on this screen is amazing! Also, check out the the map sizes I can see with this screen:
My speaker system is still having some problems. For some reason the Philips External Sound Processor won’t send any signals to my rear speakers, so I’m still using my old Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 for now, which is decent, though I noticed the center speaker (although during tests show that the speaker works) won’t have any sounds coming out when I’m playing music or movies, even when I enable environmental surround sound schemes. The speakers themselves are nice. Especially when they only costed me $35 shipped.
Also, it seems my processor isn’t able to handle the Apple HD Movie Trailers (look for any trailer with the HD symbol next to it or any of the trailers under the category High Definition Trailers). My system plays the the 480p trailers okay (though you can still see some choppiness), but the 720p or 1080p is unbearable to watch. The video lags big time. I have a couple 720p and 1080p videos from WMV HD Content Showcase and they play fine and may I add how beautiful they were on my new screen. My processor and video card aren’t that weak. It’s a AMD Sempron 2800+ and Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro.
Btw, Runts (look at my photos closesly and you’ll see them) are EVIL! I finished an entire box in one night. But fuzzywuzzy says Runts are evil for another reason: runts are evil because i end up with a jar full of banana. i hate those ones, so i throw them in a jar Wonka (owned by Nestle) is the makers of Runts and Nerds and other assortment of candies. I always wonderered which came first, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or the Wonka candy factory. According to Wikipedia, The Willy Wonka Candy Company came after the book. In fact, it coincided when the 1971 movie was released and some candy company purchased the license to it. Nestle didn’t purchase it till 1988. An interesting fact is that for the 2005 movie, Of the 110,000 candy bars made, only 1,850 were real. The rest were made of plastic. They were prepared by the Nestle corporation for the movie.