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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dscope!jld
- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: Mag Monitors - Quality?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.194014.1121@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <4305@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <venable.101@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> <4385@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:40:14 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <4385@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- >In article <venable.101@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu>
- >venable@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Wallace Venable) writes:
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- >> One day my (smaller) MAG went sssspt and blanked out. I called,
- >>got an RMA, and they did a quick (about 7 day) turn around for about $100.
- >>I think I had had it a bit over a year.
- >
- >I received a private email message from a user who ordered 3 17" MAGs;
- >he reports that one was DOA and the others have shadowy problems unless
- >he fiddles with the contrast. The more of these I hear about, the more
- >I'm inclined away from MAG and toward Nanao or NEC. While $100 and 7
- >days isn't unreasonable, I expect a monitor to last more than a year
- >before this type of repair is necessary.
- >
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- I bought the 17F about 2 months ago and haven't had any problems. It
- is a very impressive monitor. Howevery, long term reliability is another
- issue. I'll have to wait and see.
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- ---Jay Davis
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