Re: ctx monitors
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From:
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq."
> 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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response:
As with everything else, if you ask for an opinion on a brand of
hardware some people will complain how they got burned, and some will
rave about how great it is. The last computer I had here at work was
a Dell with a CTX 17" monitor. Had it for over two years and the
monitor worked fine. It even had better focus than the compaq 17" I'm
looking at now (which is a much later model). On the other hand the
IS dept reports they returned a lot of monitors. So I must have
gotten a good one.
At home I now have a Digital Research 19" monitor that was bought when
computer city went out of business. There was also a $100 rebate on
the monitor. The store sample looked good (they had all the monitors
hooked up to a dvd movie) but it turned out to be an older version of
the same model (I got the newer version. Difference was in the use of
push button controls instead of a rotor knob to select functions.)
I've had the monitor for a few months now and would recommend it.
It's supposed to go upto 1600x1200, but I am running it at 1200x1024.
I would have used the 1????x8?? setting, but my video card only gives
256 colors there. The monitor knows all the standard settings and can
setup 10 user defined settings. Syncs from 50hz-160hz vert, and
30khz-86khz hor. I've seen better monitors, but not at the price
($386 after rebate and discount). My next monitor will be a 17" LCD
when the price drops to around $500 (Yes it WILL!)
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