Ten years is a good age really for a monitor. Having to continually lighten then darked can get old very quickly. Might be the time to study your Black Friday flyers for a dazzling new flat screen monitor.

Years ago I did a 'bra fitting consultation'. Wasn't very useful. I've worn 36DD for years and have the grooves in my shoulders to prove it. I'm shrinking now though, and am 36D. Well, that's what my five-year-old ratty-looking Vanity Fair underwires say they are! LOL I haven't smoked for 35 years and never did smoke more than five a day. I use only Advair for the asthma. Seravent did absolutely zip for me when I tried it. My non-allergic asthma came on within a month after my mother died of leukemia -- along with sinus problems and a sensitivity to aspirin. (It's some noted doctor's triad of symptoms.) I had pneumonia for the first time Feb. 2009. Had a biopsy to look at some 'stuff' in one lung -- negative for cancer; it was just 'there'. I drink half coffee half milk in the a.m. and one cup of tea with sugar in the afternoon. I do eat chocolate, but only one or two small pieces in any day. MD had prescribed iron (Slow FE) when I complained that my hair seemed to be falling out at a faster rate. (The KT helped by explaining that could have been from the fever and drugs for the pneumonia.) He's told me to continue taking it. Anyway, these *whoops* episodes pre-date that. Blood work last week was normal. I guess all I can do right now is roll up my sleeves, loosen my bra and slap on the heart monitor. I sure hope medication would help -- not looking for a ninth surgery if I need a pacemaker. MGM had 'a bad heart'. She lived to 93, but it was mostly just surviving, not 'living'. I'm an 'only', as was my mother, so thre's scant 'family medical history'. You are all SO kind to reply with your experiences and kind words. Thank you!

You know, Linelle, Apple used to be like that--just set the gamma and white point and you were in a decent place,as long as you weren't doing prepress or something, but that Apple is long gone, alas. It died before Steve Jobs did. I'm sure yours is good enough, but don't be too surprised in threads where everyone is complaining about, say, a pink cast to tile, and you can't see it. These days it seems like every copy of the OS they use for imaging has different settings. I see wildly different colors on the same machine models. On the other hand, with the emphasis shifting to mobile, proper calibration is a very low priority in most situations.

There are 4K computer monitors, but many "run of the mill" PC monitors can run higher than 1080p, for example, my 23" monitor has a max resolution of 2560 x 1440 compared to 1920 x 1080 "full HD". That's 1.77 times the pixels. Not quite 4K 3840 x 2160 but noticeably more detail if your PC's graphics card can handle it. Resolution isn't the only thing either. You have to look at screen refresh rates as a powerful PC can run games at 90+ frames per second. Most reasonably priced 4K TV's have a native refresh rate of 60Hz. (regardless if they claim 120 or 240, that's just a marketing gimmick) That being said, you really need to be a game geek to really care. As a casual gamer, I've played games on mediocre systems at 30FPS 1080p and it looked good and played good to me personally. Cheap TV's will also have cheap LCD panels with uneven LED backlighting - creating a halo around the whole screen. The cheap panels will also blur more on fast action. I guess what it boils down to is what you want to pay for either. But a good TV will look great and can do more if it is web enabled. For a college kid where space is at a premium a TV may be the way to go.