Digital BW, The Print

Hey Dan, not being an Apple user myself I don't know if all the apple
monitors are the same but...the one I have been looking at lately is the
Apple Cinema Display, http://www.apple.com/displays/

It's beautiful monitor and someone who has one at work here swears by them,
the nice thing about them is they have the aspect ratio of 16 by 10 I
believe, so having the extra width would work well for someone who cant fit
two monitors on their desk.  But, to connect it to a PC you need a special
adapter, and a certain video card I think, plus, with a PC you don't have
the color control you would on a Mac so for photography what's the point.

Another Monitor I have been looking at is this one...
http://www.formac.com/p_bin/
from Formac, kind of the same design of the Macs but not as wide, but they
do work with PC's.  Both are supposed to have superior color output.  Both
20 inchers run about $1300.

I am kind of in the same boat with space, not a lot of it, so I have been
trying to decide weather I should go with two 17 inch LCD's side by side or
one big 20incher...decisions...

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Honemann <dan_honemann@...> [mailto:dan_honemann@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:43 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] best of the LCD monitors

I'm putting together a digital imaging system, and have pretty much 
decided on a Gateway 700XL running WinXP.  The only question left is 
which monitor: Gateway offers a 20" 1600x1200 flat panel for roughly 
$1k.  Anyone using this?

I've read good things about NEC and Apple LCD displays.  Would I be 
able to use an Apple monitor on my Gateway PC (it comes with a 128MB 
ATI Radeon 9700G Pro AGP video card with DVI).

I know CRTs are a better choice for calibration, but I simply don't 
have room for one in my workspace.  

Thanks for any advice you can offer.  I'm able to spend up to $2k for 
the monitor.

Dan


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