On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:42:35PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
In 20050227230948.GA7634@taz.net.au, 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