Re: ctx monitors
I'll second that.
I've got a large CTX monitor (2085) at home that I've had for several years, and I hate it. Blurry, prone to wavering, severe screen curve. Save your eyes, buy Sony or something you've looked at and liked in a shop.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: ctx monitors
>Date:
> 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
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>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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