re: Flaky monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Rod Lavington

Hi Bill,

Do yourself a *big* favour and recycle this monitor!  They are the pits 
and will cost you more money than buying a decent 17 PC display with a 
12 month or 3 year warranty.  The sooner this attempt for a display 
disappears, the better the world will be!


Honestly, they were poorly made by Apple and once they start to have 
problems, you will find that the monitor will constantly be in for 
repairs.


I now step off my soap box ;-)

Best wishes for the New Year!

Rod!



Re: Flaky monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Craig Ringer

Rod Lavington wrote:

Hi Bill,

Do yourself a *big* favour and recycle this monitor!  They are the pits 
and will cost you more money than buying a decent 17 PC display with a 
12 month or 3 year warranty.


Where do you /get/ a decent 17? The good manufacturers seem to have 
stopped making their good quality tubes, and only seem to make the 
'office' variants now. *icky*.


I think you can still get things like the Philips 109P though (I have 
one, and it's a fairly nice 19 monitor) but haven't seen many nice 17 
monitors lately. Then again, I hear a Mitsubishi 2060U (22) is only 
about $1200 now. Ideally you'd want something like a Sony G520 (21) but 
they're ... a little pricey.


Naturally, this is all just opinion. Perhaps there's somewhere selling 
decent 17 monitors that's keeping quiet about it.


The sooner this attempt for a display 
disappears, the better the world will be!


Wow. Sounds like you've used them then ;-)

It's unfortunate how many monitors those words can be applied to, though.

Craig Ringer