My 19 Mitsubishi 900u monitor just died on me. <\/p>\n
It started flickering every once in a while about a month ago, though I purchased it back in 1999, so Ive gotten a good five years out of it. <\/p>\n
At the time, the price of such hardware averaged around $600. Fortunately, prices have dropped somewhat to an average of $199 at Best Buy, though my current financial situation means anything above $99 is a real stretch for the time being.<\/p>\n
So here I am, stuck with a 15 backup monitor running 800×600 at a 60Hz refresh rate. It feels like 1997 all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My 19 Mitsubishi 900u monitor just died on me. It started flickering every once in a while about a month ago, though I purchased it back in 1999, so Ive gotten a good five years out of it. At the time, the price of such hardware averaged around $600. Fortunately, prices have dropped somewhat to … Continue reading “Monitor death …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}