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- Subject: Re: Apple 14" monitor - looks like 13" area
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.204539.6932@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: David Gladstone <D_Gladstone@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:45:39 GMT
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- In article <1dh8npINNc6j@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Travis Grundke,
- an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
- >> We just got the apple 14" monitor. However, when we put it next to
- >> the old 13" the viewing area looked to be exactly the same. In
- >> fact when we looked at the docs - it said it was a 13" picture tube.
- >>
- >>
- >> so why would one buy the new 14" over the old 13" ? And does it
- >> really have an extra inch?
- >>
- > The 14" is the 13" and the 13" is the 14"- get it? <grin> Actually, the
- >Apple 13" and 14" ARE the same sized "tube". Apple for some reason
- measured
- >its tube differently than the rest of the industry, so this time Apple
- >decided (to help clear up confusion) to call it 14". Why get the 14"?
- Well
- >there are some very good reasons:
-
- Following along these lines, didn't Apple release a new, cheap *13* inch
- monitor with the performas? If so, maybe they're actually the 12" ones
- they couldn't sell... :-) (PS: I've never seen a performa and probably
- never
- will here in New Zealand)
-
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