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In article <C0pxo0.EHo@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> roger@sr.hp.com (Roger Petersen) writes:
>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
>

Anybody have the ViewSonic 5+???  Very curious to get some feedback because
I am about to order it.  Any comments?

- Eric