[WinMac] Re: winmac Digest 24 Feb 2002 00:36:59 -0000 Issue 191

Subject: [WinMac] Re: winmac Digest 24 Feb 2002 00:36:59 -0000 Issue 191
From: the Curl (curl[at]mac.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 13:55:32 EST

Robert W. James Jr wrote:
> Can any of you˙
> say from experience that the 15" flat screen will work as well as a
> 17" or 19" Trinitron CRT in the visual arts and music?

I hope this isn't too late--I don't read the digest very regularly.

I just bought a used 15" Apple flat panel display to use with my old Beige
G3 (with the help of a Radeon PCI card with a DVI connecter). It is
functionally the same size as my 17" CRT was. They measure the flat panels
differently (i.e., more accurately) than the CRTs, which are measured
diagonally from corner to corner.

I actually got a measuring tape out and measured them both, and the 15" flat
panel is only 1/4" or so smaller than the 17" CRT.

Then there is the fact that the Digital displays are much higher quality, in
many ways. I am displaying 1024 x 768 pixels on the flat panel, where I
displayed 800 x600 on the CRT, so functionally there is more room. If you
have really bad eyesight, or look at really small text, this could be a bit
of a problem, but with how adjustable the screen is on the new iMacs, you
can easily bring it closer to you if you need.

The only big drawback to the flat panel is that color management cannot yet
be as accurate as on a CRT. Since you are in Fine Arts, and not Graphic
Design, I don˙t think this will be an issue--it really only applies if you
are doing heavy duty four-color press type work.

And, after all that, there is no reason you can't plug a CRT into the iMacs
(though I don't remember if the mini-VGA adapter comes with or will cost an
extra $20 each). Considering that the iMac with the flat panel doesn't take
up any more room than a regular mini-tower, you've got nothing to loose--you
just get the added flexibility of choosing whether you want to use one of
your existing CRTs or the built in flat panel with each new iMac.

I don't think Apple is trying to be off the wall in their designs just to be
flashy. I think they are trying to think of what people need and then make a
computer to fit those needs, as opposed to just doing things the way they
have always been done just because that's how they have always been done.

There is nothing particularly useable about the standard box design of a
computer. It evolved as the easiest way for engineers to fit everything
together, not as the easiest way for people to use it.

The cube failed because it cost too much, not because it was a bad
design--and what they learned from any mistakes they made with the cube went
into the new iMac designs, you can be sure, so you're not really getting a
first generation machine.

-Eric Vance Curl

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