🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Madden (smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU) wrote:

| >I'd like to see some opinions about the Viewsonic 5E and 6 monitors.  I
| >would also like to hear of other comparable monitors.  I will be using a

I have a Viewsonic 5E, and am very happy with it.

I have it in a sunny (South facing) room, and the screen is
still viewable with sunlight shining directly on it!
(You wouldn't want to use it this way, but it has plenty of 
brightness to compete with a brightly lit room.)

The 5E runs at 72 Hz up to 1024x768, which is nice.  But since I run
Windows at 800x600 (14" isn't really big enough for 1024x768), it's not
as exciting as I had hoped.  (Still handy for other apps., however.)

				.  .  .

My friend just bought a 14" CTX monitor.  It has a nifty feature
that my Viewsonic 5E doesn't -- it has "save/recall" registers
to store the screen size and position settings for various 
video resolutions.  So you don't have to tweak the controls
when you change video modes.  Very nice.

With my Viewsonic 5E, I have to tweak the vertical height control (only)
when I switch from 640x480 to any higher resolution.  (Switching between
800x600 and 1024x768 doesn't require any tweaks.)  This is with my
cheapo Trident 8900 card.  Your Speedstar may vary.

Roger Petersen
roger@sr.hp.com