Yeah, I can't imagine having 3 of these... 1 takes up a good amount of desk real estate as it is, I got my Dell 3008 refurbished for about $1200 I think a year and a half ago with full warranty, etc.

I assume he was referring to the 30" lcd's that run at 2560x1600 resolution... which are awesome for the record

...and if you read the specs from the manufacturers website, they also list 285, 300 and 345 in various places

Vector fonts (and graphics) as used in publishing are rendered using the software's own rendering pipeline independent of the OS, complete with its own anti-aliasing.

As a result, these applications don't suffer from the same issues as text rendered elsewhere in the operating system using GDI or GDI+.

It works relatively well except for two points:

1) On windows (not sure about other OS's), both monitors share the same cleartype configuration. Consequently, all monitors would have to be portrait whereas the most frequent configuration I see where I work (aside from dual landscape) is a one landscape and one portrait.

2) While you can configure cleartype to work with portrait monitors, it doesn't work as well for most cleartype tuned fonts. Portrait monitors with cleartype provide greater y-resolution, where as the fonts were tuned for increased x-resolution.

Ideally you could buy monitors tuned for portrait display with rotated sub-pixels, or a new sub-pixel layout that provided equal improvements in portrait and landscape could be developed.

Or you can just buy a 30" 2560x1600 screen and marvel at all those tiny pixels

The problem I've always had with rotating a monitor 90 degrees is that you loose the ability to use cleartype since the sub-pixels are no longer stacked correctly. To some people this doesn't matter much, but when looking at code all day, the right font and proper smoothing makes a world of a difference.

Sounds like promising research, but I'm confused by why the cost of the microscope is prominently displayed in both the press release and TFS. Is $225,000 considered cheap or expensive for a microscope these days?

Just don't attempt to use anything with AJAX