On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:42:35PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > In <20050227230948.GA7634@xxxxxxxxxx>, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > i've got a philips 201P 21" CRT - excellent monitor, i have no intention of > > replacing it with an LCD (quality tends to be crap unless you spend a fortune, > > with fuzzy unreadable text, and they give me headaches. i'd rather have a 15" > > CRT than a 19" LCD). > > > > maybe in a few years LCD monitors will be good enough to consider as a > > replacement.....i certainly like the minimal physical space that they take up. > > What on earth sort of LCD have you been looking at? Even my Dabs "Value" > LCD (made by Mitac) from several years ago has crisper text than any CRT > I've seen. the last one i spent any signifiant time with was some piece of crap that came with a compaq evo that was put on my desk at work about 18 months ago. it was so bad, the next day i insisted on getting my old 17" CRT back..got it too, rescued it before it got thrown away (it was in perfect working order, but they were just throwing it out - presumably because it wasn't fashionable like LCDs) > The one I tried before that did seem to make my eyes water a bit > though, so I didn't keep it, and the Dabs one I bought about a year > later was half the price :-). Later I got a Sony DVI one to go with > it, which is visibly superior to the Dabs, which I had been quite > impressed with so far. cool. if they're getting good already, i need to look at them again. i'll keep an eye on prices and start comparing specs & quality when decent 21" models become affordable. > If you tend to work with more than one window at a time, a pair of > small displays is better than one large one. the main thing i need is multi-gnome-terminal in crisp, clear 132 columns by at least 50 lines (multiple ssh sessions into various machines i need to look after). and multiple windows for firefox. for me graphics are definitely secondary, i need good quality text that isn't going to cause eyestrain even after 10 or 15 hours continuous use....that's essential, everything else is optional. > If you saw one with fuzzy text it could have had its pitch setting > wrong. Easily corrected. it could just be that that particular model of compaq LCD was garbage. cheap junk to go with the cheap junk desktop machine. craig -- craig sanders <cas@xxxxxxxxxx> (part time cyborg)
