Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!rex!ames!elroy!gryphon!jspear From: jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mac II Monitor Advice Sought. Summary: Apple, Sony, NEC or Magnavox? Message-ID: <15620@gryphon.COM> Date: 9 May 89 15:07:31 GMT Reply-To: jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 45 I've decided to take the Mac IIcx plunge but monitors have me confused. Apple for $999 list (~$750 discounted) gets you a slightly modified Sony with an Apple logo with a generally sharp, bright picture and a measly 90-day warranty. Sony 1302 for $999 list (~$580 discounted) gets you the same tube as the Apple but with additional multisync electronics and a 1-year warranty. Is there any reason to buy the Apple over this? Sony 1304 is a newer multisynch monitor for $1099 list (~$750 discounted) that can support up to 1024x768 non-interlaced display, but uses the same tube as the 1302/Apple. Not available for a couple weeks, and may not provide any sharper picture than the 1302 with the normal Mac video card. Higher resolution video cards for the II are currently very expensive ($1500+ from what I've seen). NEC Multisync IIID (~$650 discounted) has slightly sharper characters than the Sony's but is not as bright. Magnavox is advertising a less-expensive Mac monitor with 2yr warranty, but the only net posting on it I've noticed sounded like image quality was noticably poorer than the Apple. I've also heard rumour of reliability problems with Magnavox monitors used with Apple-IIs. Sooo, what does the net think of these (or other) monitors? I'm leaning towards the Apple video card with Sony 1302 monitor, but if I could get a sharper monitor or higher resolution for not many more bucks, I'd be interested. Thanks, Jon ----- Jon L Spear: jspear@gryphon.COM !gryphon!jspear gryphon!jspear@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov "With computers we can make billions of mistakes every second!" -- ----- Jon L Spear: jspear@gryphon.COM !gryphon!jspear gryphon!jspear@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov "With computers we can make billions of mistakes every second!"