From: Mike Capone (drgrant_at_ziplink.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 16:34:28 EST
As a followup to this thread, we have a Princeton 15" LCD over
here where I work, and it looks and performs very well. Cost was
approximately
$800. The EE that we have using it is currently using it in place of a 17"
CRT monitor, he says
the LCD allows him to work longer with less fatigue. This particular unit
came with an ATI video
card with a digital out port built into it.
I myself have a Thinkpad 770ED/9549-5AU and it has the 14.1in screen, which
I enjoy profusley. Perhaps the best part about it is no dead
pixels, uniformity, etc.... just plain nice to be able to use this for hours
on end instead of a low end CRT.
-Mike
At 04:03 PM 3/2/00 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
>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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