I'll second that. I've got a large CTX monitor (2085) at home that I've had for several years, and I hate it. Blurry, prone to wavering, severe screen curve. Save your eyes, buy Sony or something you've looked at and liked in a shop.
-----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 12:12 PM Subject: Re: ctx monitors >Date: > From: > "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." > >> I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", [EMAIL PROTECTED]), what >are >> people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a >student >> on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I >just >> wanted to make sure I was making a good decision before I bought one. > >In a word: don't. > >The downstairs lab here used to have 48 apex machines with ctx >monitors. Gues which component failed on half of them within the first >year or two :) > >Also, don't buy a monitor you haven't seen unless it's labeled sony or >apple. Oh, and see the *exact* model; some manufacturors have two >different neearly identical models sith a couple of hundred dollars >difference in price. With both on, you can tell them apart at a glance. > >I'd actually take a smaller monitor with better quality over the larger >monitor every time. If you have to buy "cheap" to get the size you're >looking at, I'd go for the next size down > >rick > >----------------------------------------------------- >response: >As with everything else, if you ask for an opinion on a brand of >hardware some people will complain how they got burned, and some will >rave about how great it is. The last computer I had here at work was >a Dell with a CTX 17" monitor. Had it for over two years and the >monitor worked fine. It even had better focus than the compaq 17" I'm >looking at now (which is a much later model). On the other hand the >IS dept reports they returned a lot of monitors. So I must have >gotten a good one. > >At home I now have a Digital Research 19" monitor that was bought when >computer city went out of business. There was also a $100 rebate on >the monitor. The store sample looked good (they had all the monitors >hooked up to a dvd movie) but it turned out to be an older version of >the same model (I got the newer version. Difference was in the use of >push button controls instead of a rotor knob to select functions.) >I've had the monitor for a few months now and would recommend it. >It's supposed to go upto 1600x1200, but I am running it at 1200x1024. >I would have used the 1????x8?? setting, but my video card only gives >256 colors there. The monitor knows all the standard settings and can >setup 10 user defined settings. Syncs from 50hz-160hz vert, and >30khz-86khz hor. I've seen better monitors, but not at the price >($386 after rebate and discount). My next monitor will be a 17" LCD >when the price drops to around $500 (Yes it WILL!) > > > > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >