Monitor recomendation

Hi all,
My monitor is going out, starting to flicker and shrink. It is a little
over 3 years old. Before I have the IT guy replace it with the same
thing, I thought I would get your recommendation on a monitor. I
currently have a ViewSonic P225f (22", 20" viewable). Definitely don't
want to go any smaller.

Thanks
Brian Putnam

 

If your company can afford it, then try out the Eizo Professional Monitors.
http://www.eizo.com/

cheers,
Gil Alsberg

 

Brian - I have a Dell FP2001 - 20" LCD (1600x1200 res) - highly
reccomended (had it for 18 months, using it everyday 8-10 hours). LCD's
seem better for your eyes IMO - I no longer get sore eyes or headaches
after 8 hours . Prices are pretty good on these as well. But if you are
doing colour critical work, then it might be worth looking at something
like the Eizo ones (more bucks tho')
I have the old CRT (Belinea 21" job - about 6 years old - hope the LCD
lasts as long!) sitting next to it on the same graphics card (980XGL)
for reference drawings, email and such like - a good set up with heaps
of space for windows.
Cheers
Deri

 

FYI, if your eyes were getting sore and you were getting headaches, it may
have been due to the refresh rate of the monitor. Typically the higher the
refresh rate, the easier it is on your eyes. I have found that to determine
the best refresh rate, I open up a blank Word document, or something that
has a lot of white (it is often easier to see the flicker while displaying
white verses most any other color) showing, then adjust the refresh rate
until I no longer am able to see the screen flicker. That is why the LCD
monitors are so much easier on your eyes, they have a what you could
consider a refresh rate of infinity. Your eyes are under strain when it has
to look at a flashing light, that is why you would want a continuous light.

 

I'm currently running 1280 x 1024 at 75 Hz

 

I have a ViewSonic 21" G810 that's about to flake on me. No
complaints, I've had the thing for about 7 years I think! Anyway, I
just ordered a LaCie 22" electronblue monitor ($799.00 retail). This
is one of the "color correction" monitors available (you have complete
control over all guns and cal settings). It's widely used in the
graphics arts communities because of the colr available. The graphics
packaging house that I work with swears by them. Check 'em
out...www.lacie.com

Mike Tripoli

 

Go on EBAY, buy yourself an old (plastic bodied) 23 inch Apple Cinema
display. 1920 x 1200 resolution. I've seen them go for $500. Get a decent
DVI-equipped graphics card and a DVI-to-ADC adaptor ($99) and you are in
business. I've had one on my system for about three years.

BTW, the new (aluminum case) 23 inch Apple displays are terrible in terms of
quality control. Bad colors and other issues. See user newsgroups within
Apple website for details.

-Martin

 

Yup - the monitor I was using (now my second one) is pretty bad - I have
it running at 85Hz refresh, but it's such an old monitor (I inherited it
when I started at my old work in '98, so it's at least 8 years old
with daily use - good ROI there!) I'm surprised it's still running - the
colour/ brightness and contrast controls are pretty much shot on it.
I keep waiting for it to go pop and give myself an excuse to get another
FP2001!
Would the fact that LEd's emit polarised light (look at a LED screen
through a polarising filter on a camera) also help with the eye strain?

 

Hi folks,

My first foray into this usenet thing.

I thought LCD monitors were not up to par with the traditional CRT yet for
serious CAD/design work? Has this changed?

-Lou

 

I've been kinda kicking around buying that Samsung
213t.

Any advice on it? Anyone here own one?

see link

http://tinyurl.com/9d5re

 

That is what we use here. Both CAD stations have these.

I don't know what the correct term for it is, but there is a little
"ghosting" while rotating parts. Since this is my first experience with an
LCD, I can't say if it is a bad thing, or a good thing. I do know that it
does not effect my ability or speed of work. The only problem that I ran
into was that since I had a good video card (Quadro 1300) and this new HUGE
monitor, I thought it would be kool to crank the resolution to the max (2048
x 1536). Display was great at that resolution. However I had a hard time
selecting things on the screen such as edges and vertices and such. I ended
up making my own custom resolution at 1480 x 1110 to get the correct aspect
ratio. This was a happy-medium resolution between quality and the ability
to select things. Your experience may vary as I have never been known as a
fast clicker like some.

Overall I would recommend this huge monitor.