From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:55:20 EST
Hello all,
I'm in the market for a flat panel display for my desktop PC (actually
intended to be a 2nd monitor).
I came to a tentative agreement with a gentleman here in the L.A. area and
went to visit and take a look at his Apple Studio 15 flat panel monitor.
I brought my ThinkPad 600 along for comparison purposes, but also to hook
up the monitor to my TP's video port so I could test it out.
Firstly, I was disappointed with the range of view on this thing. Really
rather poor--much better on my Thinkpad. The brightness wasn't that great
either.
But the killer was the fuzziness. Yuck! Text on this monitor--and I was
running it at its native 1024x768 resolution (15" flat panel) was nowhere
*near* as clean & sharp as on my Thinkpad. I tried all the
settings--there's even a "sharpness" setting--and had no luck. The fact of
the matter is it was just not as sharp.
Is this the norm in the TFT world? Is it a dot pitch issue? Is it due to
the fact that you have the same number of pixels (1024x768) in larger
area? (15" vs. my laptop's 13.3"?)
Or is it that IBM Laptop displays are just *so* much better than anything
else out there? Or that Apple displays suck?
I'd still like to get a desktop TFT panel, but I don't want to run into
this poor sharpness issue. Any input would be appreciated.
- Randy Whittle
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