On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:27:57PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:55:34PM -0500, andy at theasis.com wrote: > > It's time to replace the monitor on one of the workstations here, and I'm > > considering a 17" TFT/Flat panel LCD, such as the Viewsonic VG175. > > > > The box is a PIII-500 with a TNT2-Ultra card in it (32MB, I think), and > > will be doing mostly typical X stuff (gv, emacs, netscrape, xterms) at > > 1280x1024. > > > > I thought I'd check here for any recommendations or warnings, since y'all > > are such a wealth of valuable experience. > > One bit of advice: don't go for a flatpanel unless you know what you are doing. > I conseder them a necessary evil on laptops 8). They have only one good > resolution, are slow to refresh... and for the money you give on a 17" LCD you > can get a top of the line 19" CRT (I've paid $520 for a NEC MultySync FP950 > last spring and I'm very happy). I second that! Had a 15" flatscreen for the last two years and I wasn't all that good, would have loved to have a 19". > That said, I've had nothing but good experiences with NEC and Hitachi CRTs. I just got a Hitachi CM772 for my new box overhere and I love it! -- H4sIANVjVzsAA+3QS2rDMBCAYa99irlALY/jB5TiVXuDrLIJLhKJKZGCpGx6+uZFSTfZhRL4 v82MZgahkQ35Jc0bP+VDdMVjaF33bSuFiA6dXmN9ihc6qMiwaLq+11aPuTadNoXUD3rPH4eU pyhS5G3YTenenIt32s9KZHleXD7mT++ivG1z3r8ac/mOyp2rlf0yo7z7tAre/Y5Yn76P5yrE jRlLkV2w632Yfb65JmXrYqy8y+amPUpZ/vfiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPDkfgDIhI/FACgAAA==