Does 24" give more room than 19"?

Exactly. The only thing they can legally charge you for is postage. If they prefer to arrange collection they sometimes charge a restocking fee of equivalent value to that. Anything more and it carries no legal justification.
 
Just seen a service with a dead pixel check. Costs £25 for a 24" screen. Are there any stats on what percentage of Samsung 24" screens have dead pixels?
 
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What does DSR count as? Any internet sales?
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Yes. It applies to any non-consumable product that is sold at a 'distance' (i.e. over the internet). This includes all monitors bought online.

Jon12345 said:
Just seen a service with a dead pixel check. Costs £25 for a 24" screen. Are there any stats on what percentage of Samsung 24" screens have dead pixels?
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I have had lots of experience of supplying and using 23-24" Samsung monitors and I very rarely have any problems with dead pixels. If I were to give a percentage I would say it would certainly be in very low single figures if not a point percentage. I'm afraid I can't be any more accurate and it does depend slightly on how the retailer treats the product. Either way you are covered by DSR automatically so there is no reason to pay a premium for such a service unless you really want absolute peace of mind and convenience. You could still get a model with no dead pixels but horrendous backlight bleed-through though so it doesn't guarantee satisfaction.
 
Please note that the DSR only apply to consumer purchases and not business purchases. Not sure how this applies to sole traders but I presume the same?

Question: how do I know how many more pixels per square inch there will be on a Samsung 24" monitor compared to my existing LG L1915S? I want to know how much sharper it will be!

I was thinking about the improvements it would offer. Yes, I will still have the same number of icons on my desktop vertically. But when I am using a spreadsheet for example, I presume that the sharper picture will enable me to see more cells vertically because I can zoon out and the sharper picture will let the small text still be visible, rather than blurred, right?

That is a relief to hear about the low chance of a dead pixel. I was thinking it might be like 30% of 24" monitors have dead pixels or something like that.
 
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Jon12345 said:
1 Question: how do I know how many more pixels per square inch there will be on a Samsung 24" monitor compared to my existing LG L1915S?

2 I was thinking about the improvements it would offer. Yes, I will still have the same number of icons on my desktop vertically. But when I am using a spreadsheet for example, I presume that the sharper picture will enable me to see more cells vertically because I can zoon out and the sharper picture will let the small text still be visible, rather than blurred, right?
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1 Pythagoras' theorem if you know it, otherwise you could just google a pixel per inch calculator
http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html <-- first result for pixel per inch calculator

2 if you zoom out then the screen is trying to show things that are meant to take a certain number of pixels with less pixels, it would depend on the monitors scaler i think, otherwise it would be the same no matter which monitor you have (correct if i wrong someone)
You would however be able to see more horizontally or be able to have 2 instances of it open and place them side-by-side with one viewing (for example) down to row 20 and the either from 21-41

Also i have found that with the recent flood of widescreen monitors that toolbars a lot more suited to being at the side where they do not take up as much viewing space for the majority of programs as there is a lot of horizontal space wasted in programs when viewed fullscreened (take most static webpages at 1024 horizontal pixels for instance)
doing this allows for more verticle viewing space in browsers and word processors (the majority of what i use) which is what prompted me to move all my toolbars onto the left of my screen.
this is especially efective with the windows toolbar (that damn thing knocks off almost 5 lines of text on my screen! comparing that with other toolbars soon stacks up to 10-40 lines depending on personal usage of toolbars

Of course you could also use both your monitors in eyefinity with a ATI 5XXX series card (or 6xxx but the low end cards aren't out for them yet which given the other thread of yours i'm replying to you don't exactly desire high-end stuff) and add a 3d later if need be for even more viewing area.

also your monitors should have 30cm height with that size and aspect ratio, along with a 24inch 16:9 monitor should also be 30cm height, so they would match up heights pretty much perfectly when put side-to-side so if non-matched height bothers you they'll work fine.
 
Actually, I rather like the idea of sticking some of the toolbars to the left of the screen. Since it is so much wider, I probably won't notice it much and I'd rather have the extra height. Would take some getting used to though!
 
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