Good 17″ LCD?
19 May 2005I’m starting to get a tad sick of my trusty 9 year-old ViewSonic 15GS-3 CRT monitor, with my eyes suffering somewhat due to the inevitable compromise between resolution (screen real estate) and refresh rate (headache-inducing flicker).
It puts up an admirable performance for a 15″ monitor (I’d say probably the best I’ve ever used), and manages 1280*1024 at 60Hz just fine – but a 15″ screen really isn’t meant to be run at that kind of resolution, and 60Hz is just TOO low (I can’t generally pick flicker above 85Hz, but anything below and it’s unpleasant) a refresh rate to use permanently.
The problem with screen resolutions is that it’s impossible to ever go DOWN a notch – I used to run at 1024, then shifted to 1152 for ages, and have recently switched to 1280 to make life easier. All this on the same monitor! So I’m wishing I had a bigger, unflickery screen right about now.
Does anyone have recommendations for a 17″ LCD? Looking for something which does 1280*1024 and has DVI (VGA would be cool, too) input. The response time isn’t particularly important as I don’t do video or games…