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Man I lose all my tax info when I had to reinstall windows a few weeks ago. Good thing I did I just did my taxes again and saved 50% on what I owe. I had adjustments to make that were different than what I entered in the first time. Plus I think my earned income credit was off the first time. I don’t owe any state tax.

Also I decided to go with the Dell 24 inch LCD monitor verses the 30 inch one. The 30 inch is around $2000 and the 24 inch ones are generally around $1200 to $1500. My logic was fuck at that level might as well get the 30 inch. The Dell 24 inch just dropped to $800 because they are coming out with an identical model but with HDCP.

Well it all comes down to this the HDCP. (High Definition Copy Protection) Which means when the HD DVD’s come out I would need HDCP to play them on my PC. They want control on HD content at the hardware level now not the DVD level. Now the 30 inch has HDCP the 24 inch I bought does not. So what if I don’t have HDCP is what I’m now thinking. I found out my graphics card doesn’t support HDCP (none do right now anyways) and you also need a HDCP compatible motherboard. This means when I upgrade my PC this next time (in about 2 years) I can worry about all this. For now I’m going to take advantage of the nice $800 price on a good 24” LCD. Of course for $1500 I could have bought the apple Lcd of the same size which is hehe svelte.