Ode to a 19" monitor

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In article <1990Aug5.165936.12385 at rice.edu> roy at phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>I guess I'm in the very small minority, but I happen to think that 19"
>monitors are too big!  I havn't tried a 17 incher yet, but I have a
>feeling I will like it.  The 19" on just takes up too much room on my desk
>and weighs too much to move easily.

True. I have a Sony Trinitron 19'' monitor on my desk (connected to an
HP9000, not a Sun!), and the thing weighs a ton! It's huge, much deeper
than the Sun color monitor, but the display quality is much much better,
and I wouldn't change it for anything (well, maybe a 1280x1024 RS/6000
19'' monitor, which is also a Sony tube!). The thing I've always hated
about the Sun 19'' color monitors was the picture quality.  The 17''
monitors have the obvious advantage that they are Sony Trinitrons, so you
can actually use a smaller font and still have visible characters. BTW,
does anyone know why Sun doesn't offer Sony 19'' monitors? 

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