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- From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
- Subject: Re: Mag Monitors - Quality?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.233028.245@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- References: <venable.101@faculty.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu> <4385@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Aug14.194014.1121@datascope.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 23:30:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.194014.1121@datascope.com> jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis) writes:
- >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:
- >>
- >>> 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.
- >>
- >
- >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.
- >
- I've had mine for 6 months, so far no problems.
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