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marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley) writes:

>I'm looking at 17 inch monitors and have seen/heard the following
>comments: NEC is problematic, MAG has a very small actual screen,
>and Viewsonic doesn't have too high a refresh rate.

>So now I'm looking at Nanao's 17 inch, specifically 
>the 550 (can't remember the exact designation). Any body have
>good or bad comments about this ?

>There's also the 560 with a finer dot pitch but it's almost $2K
>so it's out of my reach.

The Nanao monitors have received excellent reviews for quality and reliability.
They are a bit expensive. For literature, call Nanao at 1-800-800-5202.

For reviews on 17" monitors, see Byte Magazine, May 1992 and PC magazine,
June 30, 1992. Both magazines rated the Nanao 550F as one of the best on the
market. The maximum viewable diagonal is 15.75" (I measured it).

A good place to buy Nanao's (and other's, too) is CAD Warehouse in Ohio.
Call them at 1-800-487-0485. I bought two Nanao's from them, a 550F in
the summer and a 660T in December.

Prices were near the lowest (compared with other ads in Computer Shopper),
and delivery was just a few days. No hassle at all. Highly recommended.
Talk to David Hoffer at CAD Warehouse. He is well informed.

Shipping costs: about $25 for the small (50 pound, via UPS) monitors
(550F, 560T), and about $50 for the large (100 pound, via a trucking company)
monitors (750F, 660T).

The "flat-screen" (slight curvature in both directions) monitors are the
550F (17", $1100) and 750F (21", $2100). They can do 1024x768 comfortably,
non-interlaced. Maximum brightness is not as much as one might like, though.
They can do 1280x1024 non-interlaced.

The Trinitron monitors are the 560T (17", $1850) and 660T (20", $2475). They
can do 1280x1024 noninterlaced, but won't quite fill the visible screen at
that resolution. The 20" 660T has a visible screen of 19" (filled out nicely
at 1024x768, beautiful), but only 17.25" diagonally at 1280x1024. Images on
the Trinitron monitors are nice and bright, and appear more distinct. The
sceen on the trinitron tube appears flatter than on the "F=flat" tube, despite
the fact that the T-tube has a horizontal curvature (it's absolutely flat
vertically).

Given a choice, I definitely prefer the trinitron tube. But you know, I assume,
that all trinitron monitors have one or two very thin black horizontal lines
running though the picture. These are the wires inside the tube that provide
tension for the shadow masks. I was worried about this when I ordered the
660T, but the two lines are mostly invisible. They show up faintly on a white
screen. Turns out not to be annoying at all.

The bottom line: For $1100, the 550F would still be my first choice. If
money is of no concern (yeah, right), I would get a trinitron monitor.