Most
of our monitors are ViewSonic 21" because ViewSonic offers
a great monitor at a reasonable price
ViewSonic monitors often win good reviews,
and even the average reviews tend to rate ViewSonic as good, so
I figured it was worth getting one, a 20G. I liked it so I got another,
a PT 810. When it was time to get a large monitor for the FLAAR
office in Germany ViewSonic was a natural choice. I settled on a
21 PS since this had a reasonable price (costs of computer equipment
in Europe are normally inflated).
When
people begin moving up to dual monitors many of these will be ViewSonic.
Since my Mac portable PowerBook 3400c will accept only one monitor,
I at least want this one external monitor to be a ViewSonic P815,
unless I get tempted by the ultra-wide monitors that I have seen
reviews of.
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Dr.
Hellmuth using 21"
Viewsonic monitor in our office in Florida. FLAAR has
subsequently moved to St. Louis.
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Where
and how to store your digital images? RAID,
DVD,
or CD-R?
With
large format digital images it becomes necessary to have dual monitors.
The rollouts created by the Better
Light Dicomed are of
such high quality that they really need their own monitor to appreciate
them. A second monitor is needed as a parking place for icons and
reference material.
People
in the Macintosh world have long been accustomed to multiple monitors.
Jim Robinson, who is the artistic designer behind the original FLAAR
Web sites, has three monitors. The FLAAR office has two monitors
on the main PowerTowerPro 225 MHz machine that creates all the scans
for our Web sites and now dual ViewSonic monitors on our Mac 9600.
Multiple
monitors is one of the few features of the Mac world which had not
really been readily available to the PC world. But that has now
been changed with the new versions of the various Windows operating
systems. The new Windows 98 will support up to eight monitors. This
realization will unleash a tremendous buying spree. Museums, art
historians, archaeologists, architects, architectural historians,
will catch up with desktop publishing people who already have dual
monitors. Digital images as large and magnificent as those produced
by the Better Light Dicomed will encourage this switch to dual monitors.
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