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- From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
- Subject: Re: New Trinitron Color Monitors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.182241.7069@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:22:41 GMT
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- In article <107969@bu.edu> ambi@it-next2.bu.edu (Michael Amirault)
- writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan22.064021.16036@cs.yale.edu>
- >nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- >>
- >> The Fimi sucks; it's an embarrassment to NeXT. The new Sony
- >> is so much better it's not even funny. We previously refused
- >> to purchase color NeXT systems without 3rd party displays
- >> (Nanao T560i). In the future we won't hesitate to order
- >> the NeXT/Sony 17" display.
- >>
- >
- > Am I the only one who absolutely *loves* there NeXTStation
- >Color with the Fimi 17" display?? Everyday I read in these
- >newsgroups how:
- >
- > a) the Fimi 17" display is a piece of ****.
- > b) 3.0 is so buggy that is shoudln't have been released.
- > c) All the NeXT machines running 3.0 are too slow unless
- > they have 32MB of memory.
- >
- > I can't be the only one out there who thinks this all a bunch of
- >garbage, can I? I have a NSC at home with 16MB of memory and Fimi
- >17" monitor and I think it's the best thing I've ever used.
- >
-
- I don't personally subscribe to "get Sony's monitors at whatever the
- cost" either. I have my second GDM-1936 'cause the first one had a defect.
- Aren't the monochrome monitors made by Sony (it took a year or two to
- get those right). The convergence at the screen edges for both has been
- less than stellar. Other experiences:
-
- Bought a Sony Walkman that died after 6 months. $60 repair bill.
- Bought a Sony A/V receiver that was so noisy that I couldn't hear
- low volume classical music passages over the hum. (Compared it to
- the showroom model upon return and it did the same).
-
- So buy what you can afford. And don't pay 1 1/2 or 2 times as much for
- something _just_ because it has Sony stamped on it. Do a reasonable
- comparison for that particular product. We have Hitachi's monitors
- on our SGIs which I prefer over any Sony I've seen.
-
- Michael McCulloch
- Huntsville, AL
-