🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 12 May 1996 12:47:54 GMT, george@highrise.demon.co.uk (George
Wood) wrote:

>On Sat, 11 May 1996 20:18:25 GMT matt@tdraft.demon.co.uk (Matt West)
>spake forth these words of wisdom:
>
>>Does anyone have any recommendations or magazine reviews for 15"
>>monitors ?
>>I have heard that the Iiyama monitors are meant to be very good.  I
>>see that the Iiyama 15" Vision Master MF-8515F is 259+VAT.  Does
>>anyone have the specifications of this model ?
>>
>>I have just upgraded my PC and now have a Videologic 2Mb GrafixStar
>>300 PCI graphics card and run Windows 95.  Do new monitors come with a
>>driver for W95, as I see that you can now select your monitor model in
>>the Windows setup ?
>>I want a monitor which can save the settings (ie. horizontal/vertical
>>stretch, brightness & contrast) for different resolutions or have a
>>number of user defined memories.  This may be standard on button type
>>controlled monitors anyway, but I'm not sure.
>>
>>Possible choices for 15" monitors (and price exc. VAT) :
>>
>>CTX 1565D SVGA MPRII                           (230 ukp)
>>NEC MultiSync XV15, 1280x1024 80Hz             (274 ukp)
>>MAG DX1595 TFT                                 (289 ukp)
>>Iiyama Vision Master FST MF-8515F              (259 ukp)
>>Philips Brilliance Autoscan 15B                (254 ukp)
>>Samsung Syncmaster 15GLI 1280x1024 Plug & Play (289 ukp)
>>Taxan Ergovision 580+ LR 1280x1024 N-I         (269 ukp)
>>Viewsonic 15ES 1024x768                        (270 ukp)
>>
>>Does anyone have any magazine reviews that may show the specifications
>>of some of these monitors ?
>>Any guidance to help me make the correct choice will be much
>>appreciated.
>
>I've got no details of any of them but if a personal recommendation is
>worth anything they have mine.  I have the 17" Vision Master and can
>honestly say I've *never* had a singlr complaint.  It gives a clear,
>crisp well-defined picture under Win95 & DOS.  Think hard about the
>size, 15" is not really big enough IMHO.
>

My thoughts exactly. It beats me why people spend lavish amounts on
graphics cards, disks, memory, soundcards etc etc & then sit in front
of a poxy 15" monitor or even worse a 14". I must confess an interest
here as I have a 21" monitor & nowadays find even a 17" monitor
limiting. Given the choice between a 486 with a >17" monitor & a
Pentium with a 15" I'd go for the 486 every time.

--
Nigel Barker
nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk