{"id":637,"date":"2005-11-16T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslick.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2005-11-16T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T17:15:00","slug":"one-for-the-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"One For The Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was down to the computer shopping area to pick up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microtekusa.com\/smi320.html\">Microtek ScanMaker i320<\/a> scanner to replace my crappy old Umax scanner.  While looking around I saw one place that had the Acer Ferrari 20&#8243; widescreen LCD monitor that I&#8217;d heard about last week.  While it was fairly impressive, what was REALLY impressive was the monitor above it, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acer.com.tw\/products\/monitor\/lcd_monntor4.htm\">Acer AL2416W<\/a> 24&#8243; widescreen LCD.  It&#8217;s a 24&#8243; 16:10 1920&#215;1200 widescreen with 1000:1 contrast, 500 candlepower, 6ms response time, 178 degree viewing, and VGA and DVI inputs.  The store where I saw it was selling it for TWD28,900 (about USD865).  Everything about it seems pretty sweet.  (Do I sound like I&#8217;m becoming an Acer fanatic yet?)  Oh, for those of you in the US, sorry, this one is out only in Asia and Europe currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was down to the computer shopping area to pick up a Microtek ScanMaker i320 scanner to replace my crappy old Umax scanner. While looking around I saw one place that had the Acer Ferrari 20&#8243; widescreen LCD monitor that I&#8217;d heard about last week. While it was fairly impressive, what was REALLY impressive was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/?p=637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One For The Wish List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jameslick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}