Re: ctx monitors

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

> I'm thinking of buying a CTX PL9 monitor (19", 1600x1200@75Hz), what are
> people's feelings towards ctx or this monitor in paticular? I'm a student
> on a budget and this will be my monitor for the next 4/5 years so I just
> wanted to make sure I was making a good decision before I bought one.

In a word:  don't.

The downstairs lab here used to have 48 apex machines with ctx 
monitors.  Gues which component failed on half of them within the first 
year or two :)

Also, don't buy a monitor you haven't seen unless it's labeled sony or 
apple.  Oh, and see the *exact* model; some manufacturors have two 
different neearly identical models sith a couple of hundred dollars 
difference in price.  With both on, you can tell them apart at a glance.

I'd actually take a smaller monitor with better quality over the larger 
monitor every time.  If you have to buy "cheap" to get the size you're 
looking at, I'd go for the next size down

rick

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