don't buy because it is cited as the award winning monitor
Written: Jun 26 '03
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Pros: high resolution & refresh rate, comparable price
Cons: lack of sharpness at 1600x1200 making it obsolete
The Bottom Line: Buy a 19" or bigger monitor if you are concerned about text quality. Don't buy especially if you want a large space and plan to use it in 1600x1200.
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| alex_us01's Full Review: ViewSonic P70f 17 inch CRT Monitor |
I bought it from pcconnection.com with free shipping.
If you are going to use 1600x1200 @ 75 Hz with this monitor
and you will develop software (or care about text quality, e.g. develop software) this is a bad monitor to buy. The text is not sharp and annoying at 1600x1200 @ 75Hz. If you are going to use it at 1280x1024
the text quality still is not great but tolerable. I'm very unsatisfied that I bought this monitor (I did such a wrong decision) but this doesn't mean that this monitor is bad.
If you will be using it for pictures and images, it may be good, I have no comment on image quality (you may want to check with other people who are concerned about images and who write a review for this monitor. My focus is only text quality.)
It seems that if one wants to use 1600x1200 @ 75Hz or more, s/he should not buy less than a 19" size monitor (with viewable area 18") and if it is going to be for text quality a shadow mask CRT is better than a aperture grille (and trinitron) monitor. Even though this monitor has a dot pitch .244, since it is 17" and aperture grille,
the text in 1600x1200 is too small and not sharp enough to develop software, and looks also a little blurred. If it was a 19" with the same features probably it would have been much better, but I think now I have to return this monitor. (Also, there is no convenient resolution between 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 that you can comfortably read text on this monitor.)
If you want technical info about this monitor, go to www.viewsonic.com and find the manual. Be aware that the dot pitch is rounded from .244 to .24 and it is an aperture grille dot pitch (not trio dot pitch, so it doesn't make much sense to compare directly)
From my experience, I cannot look at it for long, or it becomes hard on eyes. Drivers are easy to install, doesn't take much desk space. I also didn't find the 1 touch button (that adjusts the scanned area on the screen) useful. It centers it but it leaves the nonfunctional black area around. But, you could still adjust it via other controls (vertical size and position, horizontal size and position).
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 219.95
Operating System: Windows
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