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Well, this is actually pretty cool. This is the first time I've seen anything larger than 24 inch that can rotate to portrait mode, and thats one feature that's important to me (for doing lots of reading or web-browsing).
It's just too bad this also happens to be -way- out of my price range. The 24 inch model is almost double the price of Dell's 24 inch 2407WFP-HC, and to my understanding, Dell sells the best LCDs (or at least close to the best). That's not even considering the cheaper TN panel displays out there..
I've never had a monitor which can rotate so a dumb question - When you rotate the monitor into the portrait mode, how do you tell the O/s to change the alignment of the output?
Well with my computer it's part of the advanced display settings that came with my video card (it's an ati mobility x600). I have options to rotate it 90, 180, and 270 degrees. There might be some programs out there that can do the same thing for you, but I really don't know.
@Naveen:
In Windows at least, you can change the desktop orientation by pressing [Alt Gr] + [Arrow]. I'm not sure if this is a feature of the graphics driver or of Windows itself, but I've been able to do it on every Windows computer I have seen.
In addition, both ATI and Nvidia driver programs have a rotation feature that you can activate from the system tray.
Oh, and in case you're using a non-international US keyboard: AltGr can be simulated by pressing Ctrl+Alt. So that'd be [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Arrow] then.
(My keyboard's Finnish and I haven't seen the US keyboard layout very much. But enough to remember that little detail.)
All of the rotating functions are the graphics drivers that you have. When I was working on rotated screens over the summer I found that most modern graphics cards and a suprising number of mobile graphics cards will now rotate their screens.
Intel graphics cards tend to use the [ctrl]+[alt]+[del] + [left|right|up|down] method, which is also something you can set up in the nvidia control panel. You can usually do it with the native windows drivers for mobile graphics cards, but then they are terrible in every other respect.