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- From: hielsche@aragorn.CSEE.Lehigh.Edu (Frank Hielscher)
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- Subject: Re: Nanao 550
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:55:25 GMT
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- marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley) writes:
-
- >I'm looking at 17 inch monitors and have seen/heard the following
- >comments: NEC is problematic, MAG has a very small actual screen,
- >and Viewsonic doesn't have too high a refresh rate.
-
- >So now I'm looking at Nanao's 17 inch, specifically
- >the 550 (can't remember the exact designation). Any body have
- >good or bad comments about this ?
-
- >There's also the 560 with a finer dot pitch but it's almost $2K
- >so it's out of my reach.
-
- The Nanao monitors have received excellent reviews for quality and reliability.
- They are a bit expensive. For literature, call Nanao at 1-800-800-5202.
-
- For reviews on 17" monitors, see Byte Magazine, May 1992 and PC magazine,
- June 30, 1992. Both magazines rated the Nanao 550F as one of the best on the
- market. The maximum viewable diagonal is 15.75" (I measured it).
-
- A good place to buy Nanao's (and other's, too) is CAD Warehouse in Ohio.
- Call them at 1-800-487-0485. I bought two Nanao's from them, a 550F in
- the summer and a 660T in December.
-
- Prices were near the lowest (compared with other ads in Computer Shopper),
- and delivery was just a few days. No hassle at all. Highly recommended.
- Talk to David Hoffer at CAD Warehouse. He is well informed.
-
- Shipping costs: about $25 for the small (50 pound, via UPS) monitors
- (550F, 560T), and about $50 for the large (100 pound, via a trucking company)
- monitors (750F, 660T).
-
- The "flat-screen" (slight curvature in both directions) monitors are the
- 550F (17", $1100) and 750F (21", $2100). They can do 1024x768 comfortably,
- non-interlaced. Maximum brightness is not as much as one might like, though.
- They can do 1280x1024 non-interlaced.
-
- The Trinitron monitors are the 560T (17", $1850) and 660T (20", $2475). They
- can do 1280x1024 noninterlaced, but won't quite fill the visible screen at
- that resolution. The 20" 660T has a visible screen of 19" (filled out nicely
- at 1024x768, beautiful), but only 17.25" diagonally at 1280x1024. Images on
- the Trinitron monitors are nice and bright, and appear more distinct. The
- sceen on the trinitron tube appears flatter than on the "F=flat" tube, despite
- the fact that the T-tube has a horizontal curvature (it's absolutely flat
- vertically).
-
- Given a choice, I definitely prefer the trinitron tube. But you know, I assume,
- that all trinitron monitors have one or two very thin black horizontal lines
- running though the picture. These are the wires inside the tube that provide
- tension for the shadow masks. I was worried about this when I ordered the
- 660T, but the two lines are mostly invisible. They show up faintly on a white
- screen. Turns out not to be annoying at all.
-
- The bottom line: For $1100, the 550F would still be my first choice. If
- money is of no concern (yeah, right), I would get a trinitron monitor.
-