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From: palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Cutting Edge/Ehman/MegaGraphics Monitors
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.064919.5976@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 06:49:19 GMT
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Cutting Edge/Ehman seems to have serous quality control problems.

I am sitting in front of my new Ehman monitor, which I ordered
from an overnight delivery place about 5 weeks ago.  In that
time, I received and sent back 3 monitors (this is the 4th) for
various reasons.

The only problem with this particular one is that it has low contrast,
compared to most monitors I've seen.  It also has vertical brightness
variations every 16 pixels.  One of the ones I rejected had even
pixels that were twice as bright as odd pixels (in other words,
a black-white-black-white pattern would be twice as bright as
a white-black-white-black pattern.)  Another of them had a screen
image that was 'folded under' on the left side, as if the flyback
driver was too weak.

If you do buy Ehman/Cutting edge products, make sure that the place
you order from pays shipping both ways if you return it.  (My order
took 7 shipments of 50 pound packages, overnight express, to finally
fill.)  I ordered from MacWarehouse, and shipping totalled $3 (plus the
$60 difference in price between MacWarehouse and Ehman directly) , but
I wouldn't be surprised if, as a result of my experience, they no
longer carry the product.

If you can buy one of these from a dealer, see if you can check out the
particular monitor before deciding whether to buy.  Quality varies.

-- 
		David Palmer
		palmer@gap.cco.caltech.edu
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	I have the power to cloud men's minds -- or at least my own.