Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ls1i+ From: ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Third Party Monitors Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 18:05:05 GMT References: <9104251931.AA13223@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1991Apr27.213554.12588@math.ucla.edu>, Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: On 28-Apr-91 in Re: Third Party Monitors user Kim Simmons@rigel.neep.w writes: >I have a monochrome and a color slab side by side here in my office. The >color monitor is definitely very fuzzy for text. So fuzzy that i can't use the >color for anything like edit/emacs stuff that involves text, without >eyestrain after a while. I was warned about this by a few people, didn't >belive them. Well its true, i was wrong and they were right. I would not >recommend anyone buy a color slab if they will be doing a lot of stuff where >they have to look at text for any length of time(like programming). The color >is great however. Unfortunately i do a lot of email/programming/news reading. >Unless i want to impress people with the neat color, or look at some gif or >tif images, or use a draw program that supports color, i use the mono slab. >We have a color Sparcstation next door (Sony Trintron monitor i think), and >that monitor is much, much better than the NeXT color monitor. >It's amazing having the two monitors side by side. The mono is so much >sharper (it is the best monitor that i have ever used), while the color >monitor is among the worse (if you have to look at text). Only the original >Dec color monitors(before they switched to the Sony monitor) was worse. Question: Is it possible to have a large variation in the quality of different monitors of the same model? I ask this since Kim says that her monitor is fuzzy with text and just plain an eyesore. I own a ColorStation and find the crispness of the text to be excelent. While I do not have a Mono NeXT next to the Color, I do have a standard Color Macintosh right next to it. The text display is clearly suberb to the mac. I have many opportunities to visit the CMU NeXT cluster (I am not networked, therefore I must transfer via floppies) and a clear difference in quality does not stand out in my mind, although the windows on the mono are a bit snappier speedwise. I have spent many hours in front of my ColorStation hacking away, and eyesores are not a problem. Is it possible that Kim's monitor is inferior to mine?