From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 16:03:02 EST
Randy...
i have four..
2 - IBM 9516, SXGA (one cost $2400 the other cost $1800)
the good:
wonderful color, extremely sharp, good controls and a self setup feature.. nice.. AND
a 3 year warranty from IBM..! :-)
The bad
crappy stand (it'll only go up and down (and not far enough down!) and almost no tilt
range.. and there is a fan inside each !
1 - Philips Brilliance 4500AX, XGA, with built in speakers..
The ugly..
cost $3200 in 1998?
1 year warranty..
they must have known that it would start to go bad after 1 year..
Philips is a big NONO..
1 - h/p 14inch, XGA
just a good solid performing, good color, sharp monitor..
i use it every day, all day..
paid $1000 for it used.. over a year + ago.. maybe longer..
all in all, i would buy IBM and h/p again.. sight unseen..
Philips..
never again anything Philips, unless its free..
all in all, flat panels are all i will have in front of me, if i can help it.. :-)
Randal Whittle wrote:
> 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
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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