Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New A1084SD1 Message-ID: <1991Jan1.055234.1237@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 1 Jan 91 05:52:34 GMT References: <6634@crash.cts.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 51 seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG > While I'll admit that the placement of the power switch on the new > A1084SD1s might be a bit inconvenient for some people, for others it > makes no difference. Many, many people have cubbyhole computer desks like mine, back to the wall, reach through access impossible; it is more than a little inconvenience, and any designer with a brain in his/her head should have known so. > If you're having to reach way the hell behind an A2000 to turn it off, > the power switch for the moniter is just a few inches up & forward. I don't think you read what I wrote. I live in a desert, and turn my A2000 off only for thunderstorms, perhaps once every two months on average; it sits on edge beside my desk, reasonably accessible. The 1084, on the other hand, I turn on and off several times a day, and having the power switch on the back would require me to rearrange my whole office to counter poor monitor design. > If you use a powerstrip to bring up your whole system, it won't matter. True, but that's not the case; a monitor is good for only a few thousand hours of use before the phosphor degrades, so turning it off when not in use makes sense. The computer, on the other hand, is much better off staying warm than being power cycled. Thus, independent convenient control makes sense for the monitor. > When I leave my machine running, but don't need the display active, I > just press the RGB/CVBS switch to pop it over into composite video > mode...this saves me some wear-and-tear too. I'm not enough convinced that would leave me a happy camper; the other common monitor degrade path is the very high voltages eroding the insulations, so I'd much rather power the unit down. If I were sure your solution weren't trying hard to to fry the monitor, I might use it, though, in preference to walking around my desk to reach the power switch. >If it's not what you need, then vote with your wallet...but don't condemn it >because it doesn't live up to your expectations of ergonomic design. Of course I will! If you don't let the brain dead of the world know they're doing a rotten job, they'll never reform their ways. Economic deprivation is a damn slow way to improve products, and wasteful as heck, too, to see another business go down the tubes for lack of direct user feedback. Kent, the man from xanth.