And finally I caved into this technocarnalust of mine.<\/p>\n
This involves the ‘monitor dilemma’ I mentioned earlier on my blog.<\/p>\n
You see, yesterday (make that the other day since it is 2<\/font> in the morning already) after returning a refurbished 15<\/font>” Samsung monitor that behaves as if it was dissected by three trigger happy aliens, I happen to bump into the shop’s delivery truck that delivered ‘fresh goods’.<\/p>\n The golden loot of that afternoon was a crystal crisp 21<\/font>” Sun flat screen monitor displayed at the center of the shop, which the vendors are eagerly ‘marketing’.<\/p>\n But who can blame them… it was so lovely… even lovelier than the ViewSonic E70<\/font>F flat screen monitor I have on my previous workplace in Davao… and ViewSonic has been on top of my list along with the different models of HP.<\/p>\n It’s a refurbished monitor but aside from the one returned, we have purchased around 9<\/font> refurbished monitors on that shop already (Samsung, NEC, Toshiba and Sony) and after 7<\/font>++ months, these monitors are still A-OK. 15<\/font>” monitor costs around P1,800<\/font> (1<\/font> dollar is approximately 55<\/font> pesos) and 21<\/font>” sells at around P4,000<\/font>.<\/p>\n This SUN monitor was being sold at a higher price… 4,500<\/font>.<\/p>\n And there was I faced between a LackofImmediateNeed and, as Avatar puts it, the ThisOppurtunitySeldomComes data collection battling inside my head.<\/p>\n I was able to convince the head of that shop though to reserve the monitor to me up to 10:30<\/font>AM the next day (the shop opens around 10<\/font>AM), until I can decide if I should acquire it.<\/p>\n Back home I did a little research on these Sun monitors.<\/p>\n The ‘net showed that these monitors are really manufactured by Sony for Sun. Some even are bundled for Sun’s 20,000<\/font> dollar computer packages. The new model line of Sun 21<\/font>” monitors even sells for around P52,000<\/font> (850<\/font>+ euros and 952<\/font>+ dollars if my memory serves me right). <\/p>\n Other reviews were good and convincing too.<\/p>\n There are also refurbished and second hand monitors being sold online but there’s a big difference when it is just around approximately 10<\/font> blocks away from your place and you have personally seen it.<\/p>\n The other factors that hinders me to buy the monitor are things I can override and justify but it’s the LackofImmediateNeed reason that for a spend-only-when-needed type of guy like me, makes things a little harder to decide.<\/p>\n So I let sleep and dreams process subliminally the data, the ‘values’ and other factors gathered.<\/p>\n