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best CHEAP monitor
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I've sold my pb867 and ordered a 1.8 G5, but I do not yet have a monitor. I need to choose one soon so that i can run my G5 when it arrives. The problem is that the G5 was a major stretch for my budget, so I can't afford the lcd I want right away. My plan, then was to buy a decent 17 in. CRT and eventaully pair it with a nice 17 in. LCD (probably the Samsung). Does anyone have any reccomendations for the CRT? I was hoping to spend less than $200. Yes, that is a real budget, so please don't tell me that if I only spent a little more... I'm a very poor college student.
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I know this is more than you wanted to spend, its $250, but it is such a nice monitor. Big, high resolution, and actually goes pretty well with the G5; it has the same badass industrial look. Picture doesn't do it justice.
http://www.necmitsubishi.com/product...p;division=NEC
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I presently have a G4 tower, 400mhz, and I had to replace my old 17" Apple display monitor that was slowly dying. I called MacConnection, my old standby, and they recommended the ViewSonic (as I plan to get the new G5 tower, but not until after the first of the year). I got the 15" (model E55-3) for only 109.00. It is a very clear monitor, even though it is a bit smaller than my other. It is easy to hook-up, just plug and play.
Kathy
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Thanks, Peter. I do like the look of the monitor. I ordered one today. It should match my G5 and didn't wipe out my wallet.
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Mattoon, IL coles
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by otter2:
I was hoping to spend less than $200. .... I'm a very poor college student.
These 2 sentences do NOT fit together at all?
When I was an actual college student 5+ years ago at UIUC, I had to 'find' a used 16" Apple monitor for my Performa 630! I'm not still poor, but I am still using this 16" monitor with my B&W G4/500mhz/768mb/100+gig/64mbVram,,,
Jeff
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Jeff Strong and his wunderputer!
Performa 640(PPC-601)/LC040/52mb/(8.6)/10.3gigs Win95b/586dx2/100mhz/32mb, with only
1 Zoom 56k modem, 16" Apple monitor, 12 year old Stylewriter II printer, floppy, cd, kybrd, & scanner!
I moved "up" to an Apple beige G3 with a G4/500 zif chip o/c to 550mhz, running Mac OS X 10.1 with the same 16" Apple monitor now using 6mb vram, 768mb sdram ram, a 30 gig EIDE drive, another keyboard, same zoom 56k, a Yamaha SCSI CDRW 6/4/16, floppy, and future EIDE DVD, or.............transitioning a lot of this into a Powermac 9600!
Bill Gates "forced" me to buy one of his 'pirated' WindowsXP commodity-based PC's from Dell 'new' for $400, 2.8ghz (slower than G4/550), 17", CDRW, 512mb, DVD, and same OLD Zoom 56k!
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