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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New A1084SD1
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.232100.17468@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Jan 91 23:21:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jan1.055234.1237@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>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.
><xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>

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In article <1991Jan1.055234.1237@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>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.

	...you get the idea. I cannot ignore this topic any longer. Good
points are made on both sides. I use a power strip. However, I have always
used power strips with the built-in EMI/RFI (whatever) protection. Seems
to make a difference. I have never had anything go bad. Hell, I use my
original 1084 monitor on my A2000 (approx October 1985)! And, I use the
Amiga pratically ever day and power it off after use each time.

				Jeff