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- From: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@cs.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Apple 13inch colour monitor
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.032140.16582@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- X-Xxdate: Sun, 13 Sep 92 04:21:35 GMT
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- Organization: Stanford University
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 03:21:40 GMT
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- I have a 13 inch Apple colour monitor, and the case is much deeper than I
- had expected it to be, so when I put it on my desk, with it pushed all the
- way back against the wall as far as it will go, the screen is still closer
- to my face than I would like it to be. I don't have room to move the desk
- a long way back from the wall to make space behind it.
-
- To make matters worse, the plug on the end of the Apple monitor cable is
- large, and the cable is quite stiff, so that forces the monitor to be
- another three inches closer. That might not sound like much, but with the
- monitor almost against your nose, those three unnecessary inches are very
- irritating.
-
- Other people with limited space must have got annoyed with this too. Does
- anyone know where I can buy a right-angle monitor connector, so that the
- cable hangs down, flat against the case, instead of sticking straight out?
-
- What I think Apple should have done is to design the case more like
- a conventional television set, so that it is shorter, and the back,
- instead of being flat, has a blister to accomodate the neck of the tube:
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- There is now room for the monitor cable to plug in below the blister and
- hang down naturally, without contributing unnecessary extra length to the
- length that is actually required by the physical dimensions of the tube.
-
- The dimensions of the Trinitron tube are not under Apple's control,
- but their designers could at least try not to make it any worse.
-
- Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@cs.stanford.edu>
- * Liliore Green Rains Houses Resident Computer Coordinator
- * Stanford Distributed Systems Group Research Assistant
- * Macintosh Programmer
-