Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!cbnewsc!straka
From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: New Macintosh Information...
Summary: New monitors
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.132559.11854@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:25:59 GMT
References: <45674@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Oct16.035308.15999@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Oct16.035308.15999@d.cs.okstate.edu>, minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
| > This is off of AppleLink and I believe it's an "official announcement".
| > Lower Cost Displays
| > Rounding out the new Macintosh announcements are two new displays--the
| > Macintosh 12-inch RGB Display and the Macintosh 12-inch Monochrome Display.
| > have a 256-color capable, 12-inch display for $599 suggested retail price or a
| > high-resolution 12-inch monochrome display with a bright, easy-to-read screen
| > for a suggested retail price of $299.
| 
|   Are these monitors actually anything new or different or is this s
| roundabout way of lowering prices??? I haven't seen anything to match
| Apples standard 13" color monitor in its price range and I have no idea

These new 12" monitors, as I understand it, are only 512x342 pixels.  NOT
what *I* am looking for personally, but it may be for some people.
-- 
Richard Straka                    AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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