Digital BW, The Print

On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:43 AM, jerry dungan wrote:

> I've been searching back through to October 2004 regarding monitors  
> as it is finally time for me to move on to a new one and came  
> across my very type of question from your posting about a year ago.  
> What monitor/video card did you finally acquire if I may ask?

None yet, Jerry; I decided to upgrade to the next (late-winter/spring  
I hear) 17-inch MacBookPro notebook as a desktop replacement and  
(necessarily) just live with whatever video card Apple puts in it.  
I'm also going to try to live with its screen as a "palette monitor".


> And any recommendations for either a CRT or LCD for Windows. My  
> perference is for a CRT, but with the obvious dwindling number of  
> choices there, an LCD would be Plan B.

No specific recommendations, but, although I feel the same way as  
you, I don't think it's practical to try to continue with a new CRT.  
So I'm looking for a good-to-excellent 19-inch 1280x1024 LCD which I  
can rotate on a Mac. I think the NEC MultiSync LCD1990SXi might be  
the best one short of an EIZO. About $715 at SmallDog.com?

But someone using Windows might also consider Samsung's 19-inch  
Syncmaster 970P for less at MonitorOutlet.com. Samsung discouraged me  
from trying to use it on a Mac.

And, from the homework I did, both Windows and Mac users might prefer  
Samsung's 21-inch SyncMaster 214T, for only a little more than the  
NEC at Monitor Outlet. At least one consultant on a MacInTouch.com  
forum said the 214T had the best text he'd seen on an LCD.

Speaking of consultants, John Vitollo is on the list and, I believe,  
uses Samsungs himself, so I hope he'll add something about using them  
in a dual-display arrangement.

Good luck, Jerry, and happy holidays.
--
Sam


> Thanks in advance for any consideration you can provide on this.
>
>
> Sam McCandless <samcc@...> wrote:
>   At 11:30 PM +0000 1/25/06, Roderick Vesper wrote:
>> [snip]