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- From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
- Subject: Re: Viewsonic monitors
- Message-ID: <C0qus4.351@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <1993Jan4.232608.10331@trl.oz.au> <C0pxo0.EHo@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:57:38 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <C0pxo0.EHo@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> roger@sr.hp.com (Roger Petersen) writes:
- >Steve Madden (smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU) wrote:
- >
- >| >I'd like to see some opinions about the Viewsonic 5E and 6 monitors. I
- >| >would also like to hear of other comparable monitors. I will be using a
- >
- >I have a Viewsonic 5E, and am very happy with it.
- >
- >I have it in a sunny (South facing) room, and the screen is
- >still viewable with sunlight shining directly on it!
- >(You wouldn't want to use it this way, but it has plenty of
- >brightness to compete with a brightly lit room.)
- >
- >The 5E runs at 72 Hz up to 1024x768, which is nice. But since I run
- >Windows at 800x600 (14" isn't really big enough for 1024x768), it's not
- >as exciting as I had hoped. (Still handy for other apps., however.)
- >
- > . . .
- >
- >My friend just bought a 14" CTX monitor. It has a nifty feature
- >that my Viewsonic 5E doesn't -- it has "save/recall" registers
- >to store the screen size and position settings for various
- >video resolutions. So you don't have to tweak the controls
- >when you change video modes. Very nice.
- >
- >With my Viewsonic 5E, I have to tweak the vertical height control (only)
- >when I switch from 640x480 to any higher resolution. (Switching between
- >800x600 and 1024x768 doesn't require any tweaks.) This is with my
- >cheapo Trident 8900 card. Your Speedstar may vary.
- >
- >Roger Petersen
- >roger@sr.hp.com
- >
-
- Anybody have the ViewSonic 5+??? Very curious to get some feedback because
- I am about to order it. Any comments?
-
- - Eric
-
-