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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!news.pic.net!usenet From: mglaris@pic.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Advice for low cost 17" monitor.. Date: 1 Jul 1995 15:07:49 GMT Organization: Summit Research, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3t3oc5$bjd@gandalf.pic.net> References: <3sg4me$fb1@blackice.winternet.com> <3sgt3b$7ca@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3t17o7$5td@dg.thepoint.net> Reply-To: mglaris@pic.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ticket.pic.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.09 In <3t17o7$5td@dg.thepoint.net>, arlie@news.thepoint.net (Arlie Davis) writes: >j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > >>Don't >>trust anybody promising you 1280x1024 on a 17" monitor, he's promising >>you a picture with the finest lines finer than the dot pitch. > >I'm using a CTX 17" monitor at 1280x1024, and it's _beautiful_. >The pixels are so square and so crisp that I cry when I look at my 14" >monitor running 1024x768 or even 800x600. I second this opinion. I also have a CTX 17" monitor and I have never been so please with the performance and the image quality. When I was shopping for monitors, one of the stores I visited have about a dozen monitors hooked up tot he same PC, being driven bu the same video card, and controlled by the same keyboard. Windows was active, and I created DOS full screen session, and then switched back and forth between text mode and graphics mode. All of the other monitors flickered and took extra time before the screen stabilized. Not the CTX. It repainted the screen much quicker than any of the other monitors, including a NEC 5 series (I forget just which one), and did so without the flicker. And all of this for a very good price (about $635). Mike Laris mglaris@pic.net