Personally I love my monitor set up.  I have an Apple 17” Studio (CRT) Display and a 17” Viewsonic.  The viewsonic used to seem good before I say the studio display, but now it seems way fuzzy (then again, it is 3 years old too). 

The Apple display rocks.  I would love a 17” LCD, but my Apple CRT cost half the price, almost the same screen size, and better color accuracy. 

I must say that the color accuracy is the biggest deal though.  This is the best monitor for that i have seen.  I need to have a high degree of accuracy for the print design work that I do, and the combination of this display with proper proofing equipment is able to bring about 98% or so color accuracy.  With the naked eye you can almost never see a difference between what I have on screen and what come off the printing press.  I love it. 

(I still drool over dual 17 or 22” Cinema displays though, and will probably get the 17 inch for at home where color accuracy is not such a big deal.)

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Jon

When I replace my computer, I am going to spend a couple extra shekels for a new LCD. As bad as my eyes are, they need all the help they can get.

Just spoke with a guy who works at Hitachi. Tip about getting your LCD to last longer: don’t have the brightness set as high as it will go. You decrease its life span.

FWIW…

Whoa my first at macob.. at 1:33am

personally I would prefer a lcd, that is if I wasn’t using an iMac (maybe in 10years i will have saved up enough to buy a new mac

On 2001-08-05 13:09, cwbullet wrote:
Hello,
I just ordered a Lacie 19 inch Electron Blue CRT, but after 1 month of waiting for it to ship, I am having second thoughts.  Which would you order: a crt or lcd? and why?  What monitor do you own?  Are you satisfied? 

Chuck Haislip

I have two 22 inch widescreen LCD cinema displays on my G4 machine and I love them.

Then the alarm went off and it was time to get up and go to work.

LCD monitors are wonderful for 95% of the computer users.
However if you need a big area at 1600 plus resolution on multiple monitors, you must use a CRT solution.
The cost for such a solution with LCD’s is prohibitive for all but a billionair.
for productivity you need alot of area. Multiple monitors is the only way to go and you should be buying as many large monitors as possible.

Bill Acri
The Auction Depot Limited
http://www.auctiondepot.com

I’ve been using computers for almost ten years now, and have been using throwaway 14” POS (not Point of Sale ) monitors the whole time. Whenever I bought a new computer, I ran out of money by the time it came to monitors. So naturally, when I spotted an Apple Multiple Scan 17 (Trinitron, woohoo!) at Goodwill for $25, I bought it. All I can say is Wow. If I knew what I’d been missing, I would have bought a new monitor years ago.

Don’t get me started on LCDs. I’ve got a PB 190cs and an old Dell laptop (bite me, it was free); one passive, one active. The screens look great, but I’ll stick to this Trinitron until I can find an LCD at Goodwill for $25.

For those of you with LCDs: how is game performance? I would like to know, as LCDs are stuck with a set resolution, and lower resolutions blur the screen.

So - if you go with a lower resolution to play a game, how does it look? If you stick with the native resolution, does the gameplay suffer?

I have a Cube/450 with the ATI Rage 128.

I got my computer and 17 inch LCD yesterday.  Simply the best screen and computer I have ever seen or used.  This machine is fantastic.

Chuck Haislip