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From: chucks@acd.uucp (Chuck Smythe)
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Subject: Low-end 19" color monitors?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 22:47:47 GMT
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I hope to buy an 8-bit color monitor for my IIcx in the next few days.  I have
a fairly limited budget (around $2000), and would like to tap the collective
wisdom.  So far I have turned up:

- Relax Technology 19" trinitron.  This was reviewed a year ago in MacUser,
  who complained bitterly about screen flicker with a 60hz refresh rate.
  They will sell this one Very Cheap, consequently. ($999!) Does anyone
  have experience with this one?  What do you think of the flicker?

- Ikegami 19" trinitron. Available for $2500 +- a few hundred from various
  dealers.

- Various 16" monitors,  for example E-Machines.  Principle question: given
  the same dots per inch, do people find 19" that much more desirable than
  16"?

All opinions welcome!

			Chuck Smythe