From: os2support_at_theriver.com
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 23:21:11 EST
It must be the Apple Flat Panel. Where I work they have several 15" Flat
Panels and I would trade my 17" .26 dot pitch "tube" monitor for them.
James
In <38BED83D.81A02EC4_at_gate.net>, on 03/02/00
at 04:08 PM, Bill Morrow <penzance_at_gate.net> said:
>OH, one more thing..
>oue of all four.. the good, bad, ugly and the workhorse, there is not a
>single pixel thats bad...
>i think the problems these might have are the internal plugs (The Ugly -
>Philips) because when i press the side of the case, it gets ok for a
>while.. otherwise, the bottom half of the display comes and goes, the
>color is really garbage and the support..?? what support..!! i suppose if
>it were a Philips microwave oven..???
>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 ** :-)
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>e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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