Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!mkent From: mkent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Marty Kent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Viking large screen displays Message-ID: <25075@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 88 18:46:11 GMT References: <5350@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mkent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Marty Kent) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 53 In article <5350@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> jg@ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant) writes: > > A nice simple one this ... does anyone have one, either >size will do (19 or 25 inch) - if so, what's it like ? What >resolution are you using ? > > Reason for question - basis for purchase decision, whilst >no product is currently imported for evaluation. I have a couple of Moniterm 19"-ers (Viking I's), a Moniterm 24"-er (Viking 2400) and a 19" Megagraphics. I got the Viking I's with the 72dpi cards, not the 90dpi, because I like text and graphics to show up the same size on all the displays. The image quality on the Megagraphics is clearly superior to that of either Moniterm, but the difference is not really that big a deal; i.e. the display quality is certainly acceptable on all three monitors. The small Vikings look better than the 2400 - the big display has a whiter tint and I think it looks a bit "washed-out" by comparison with the 19". The Viking I has 1024 by 768 pixels, the Megagraphics 1024 by 860 pixels, and the V 2400 about 1280 by 960 pixels. Price-wise, at least here in the states, Viking seems to be about the best deal available: as a developer, my price on the Moniterm 19" was about 75% of the Megagraphics price. At the time I got the Megagraphics (it was my first) I didn't know the 19" Moniterm was available with a 72dpi card - if I'd known that, I'd probably never have gotten the Mega. Problems: the main problem with the Megagraphics is a people problem: the people at Megagraphics are absolutely some of the rudest, most moronic scumbags it's ever been my displeasure to deal with, right up their with the customer service people at Apple. After 6 or 7 phone calls and 2 letters to my Megagraphics rep, I haven't received a single word of documentation, or any of the software that was supposed to be shipped with the display (they advertise some communications software). I live in fear and trembling of the day the Mega needs service... Unfortunately I'm just about to find out about the service setup for the Moniterms, because we just got two new machines (Mac II's) with the revision B roms, and the Moniterms don't work with the new roms! So far the Moniterm folks have been pretty good (which is really a huge selling point to me, after the Megagraphics a**holes) and I'm hoping this doesn't bring out the worst in them. All in all, I recommend the Moniterms pretty highly... Marty Kent Sixth Sense Research and Development 415/642 0288 415/548 9129 MKent@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu {uwvax, decvax, inhp4}!ucbvax!mkent%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu Kent's heuristic: Look for it first where you'd most like to find it.