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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: You got Sumsang 17" SVGA monitor?? (RE: Goldstar 16" SVGA monitor)
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.211846.26055@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 21:18:46 GMT
References: <26629@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <26629@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, by jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook):
> [stuff deleted]
> Remember, when you are sitting in front a computer, you may be doing CAD,
> WP, accounting, term emul, programming, or ANYTHINg.  But NO MATTER WHAT YOU
> ARE DOING YOU WILL ALWAYS BE LOOKING AT YOUR MONITOR!  And for something
> that you will be devoting that much time in front of, don't you think you
> should get the best you can get?  I'd wait a bit and save up that 
> extra cash.

I think your justification is good and fine, for office use.  But many of us 
looking at Goldstar 16" merely want it for home use.  For office use
I admit spending more money now to support future "default" standard is
wise.  But what do we use it at home?  

Not window (I got win3 and even the window developer's kit 
but I have yet to touch it for months), not CAD (at least 
not too many of us), for wordprocessing we use text mode (either 
80x25 or 132x43) except for preview like in WordPerfect 5.1 which
is one of the reason I want 16" to do 1024x768 interlace.  You don't
need noninterlace for preview as you look at it only perhaps 1% of the time.
Accounting, term emul, and programming, all text mode.  I assume 
Goldstar 16" use noninterlace for text mode?

The biggest point is many of us find it hard enough to scrap up $623, must less
$899 (more than $250 in addition?) of our own money for home.  Of course,
in office that is usually not a problem if a justification is made for
it.