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To: steve h who wrote (22302)	12/30/1997 11:41:00 PM
From: Robert G. Bianchi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33344

Steve, Appreciate your insight on the videocard and monitor. I am in the market for a new large monitor (19") so your advice on getting a fast refresh rate is greatly appreciated. Personally, I would not buy a 19" or even a 20" monitor. If you are using your computer for anything serious, large spreadsheets, code development, and maybe even a lot of document writing. Seeing all the data is what is most important for productivity. Otherwise, you are zooming in and out all the time. The one piece of equipment that will have value in three to five years is the Monitor. So putting money into it makes the most sense. For the sake of your eyes, it is important that the monitor be flicker free (i.e., high refresh rate) with excellent focus (i.e., a very small dot size, like 0.25 mm). Inorder to use 1600 x 1200, all 21" inches of the monitor is required. Otherwise the print tends to be too small. With windows 95, the icons and text may be scaled, so the sharpness of the image improved with the higher resolution! If you buy a 19" Monitor, you will only be able to effectively use 1280 x 1024. A very good sharp 17" Monitor will do that just fine! If it is size you are worried about, the ViewSonic Monitors have a little less depth than many others. Also putting the monitor at one end of the desk in a diagonal fashion works pretty well! Any desk that has 36" depth works great. My point is that an excellent 17" Monitor is much cheaper than a 19" Monitor and will do the same job. An excellent 21" Monitor will hold its value best because it supports the 1600 x 1200 resolution effectively! Bob