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From: pburke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Peter Burke, MIC, 263-7744)
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Subject: Re: INFO ON NEW GATEWAY 2000 COMPUTERS??
Message-ID: <1991May14.210035.15292@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 20:42:09 GMT
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In article <1991May14.150425.503@cbnewsc.att.com>, tjr@cbnewsc.att.com (thomas.j.roberts) writes...

>From article <1991May14.135043.21680@macc.wisc.edu>, by pburke@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Peter Burke, MIC, 263-7744):
>> In article <1991May14.053655.27468@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes...
>> 
>>> 
>>>I assume you mean what they are selling as their "Crystal Scan 1024NI".
>>>Have you compared this with, say, the Sony 1304?  I am all ready to
>>>order one of these machines (25 MHz DX no-cache) but because it is a
>>>work machine, paid for by the department, I need to make sure I get the
>>>right monitor the first time around, and no one around here has either
>>>one of these.  All the existant G2000 machines here have some different
>>>kind of monitor.
>> 
>> One of my friends recently bought a system from EPS (Gateway's 
>> neighbors in South Dakota) with a Sony 1304HG and the Orchid ProDesigner 
>> card. The card is slower than the Speedstar (in Windows) and the monitor 
>> - well - I think it is not as useful in the 1024x768 as the Computronics 
>> that Gateway ships. The sharpness of the Sony is impressive, but it 
>> results into such fine characters under icons in Windows that one cannot 
>> read them unless one is 10 inches in front of the tube.  This may be 
>> because the Speedstar Card supplies some fonts for this resolution, but 
>> the overall impression of the Computronics, ignoring this difference in 
>> the readability of fonts althogether, is that it is at least as good as 
>> the Sony. The price difference is not justified (Gateway did charge $250 
>> extra to ship the Sony).  I wouldn't pick the Sony even at the same 
>> price. 
> 
>Ah, but do you see flicker in a screen refreshed at 60 Hz ?? If you

No - I don't, at least not when you sit right in front of it.
 But then, some people are more sensitive than others to screen flicker. We 
installed the Windows "paper" wallpaper on the Gateway with the 1024NI - 
this is one of the most "flicker-prone" images that are unbearable on 
interlaced cards (like our IBM 8514A). Large white areas on the Gateway 
are also very nice, flicker is visible from a larger distance (30ft or 
more), but not as bad as on other machines with a far higher price tag 
(I am thinking of those MAC IIfx machines we have here)
   Sure, I haven't seen the Sony with the Speedstar - the main flaw I 
noticed (with an Orchid Prodesigner) was the size of the fonts. Since 
the Speedstar should fix that it might be worth considering for someone 
who absolutely doesn't want flicker.