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21-inch CRT Studio Display
After getting this CRT Studio Display, I realised that I made a big mistake. It was too heavy. Taking it home was a big headache.
Anyhow, the photos:
Next to it was a 20-inch Cinema Display (ADC). Sorry for on the floor position, it was too heavy to lift up to a proper table.
The plus side of this, it costs me only $5.
Anyhow, the photos:
Next to it was a 20-inch Cinema Display (ADC). Sorry for on the floor position, it was too heavy to lift up to a proper table.
The plus side of this, it costs me only $5.
Ya i got one of those for a trip to portland. cost me 10 in gas lol.
Welcome to the world of million pixel bliss with true black, LCDs suck, no black black, except at the very high end. You'll love browsing on a 4:3 aspect ratio as opposed to that Wide aspect LCD as well.
Those CRT Studio Displays are some of the best displays Apple has ever made. I refuse to own one at this time because its almost (or is) the same size and weight as another CRT AIO.
I have one of these:
It's nice, but mine, I think, has some convergence problems, and I accidentally cut into the glass while removing the already peeling antiglare coating, so there's some small gouges all across the screen.
I'm not sure I want it, but it's here, and I have no easy way of getting rid of it "properly" (i.e. selling it or giving it to another collector).
It does have a neat looking enclosure, though! In fact, the person who sold it to me thought it was an iMac or something similar.
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It's nice, but mine, I think, has some convergence problems, and I accidentally cut into the glass while removing the already peeling antiglare coating, so there's some small gouges all across the screen.
I'm not sure I want it, but it's here, and I have no easy way of getting rid of it "properly" (i.e. selling it or giving it to another collector).
It does have a neat looking enclosure, though! In fact, the person who sold it to me thought it was an iMac or something similar.
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I had one of those brand spankin' new, it worked for exactly 12months 14days.(yeah, just out of warrantee) :'(
I lusted after one of those 24" widescreen SONY CRTS (last ones they made, used for video editing) but the weight size and depth are too big for any place I could set one up. Sucks because they were going cheap when everyone was dumping them for LCD. I still have my 19" Sony in the garage because someday I will fix it (got it new and used it a decade), but that is about the biggest size I would even think of using.
Don't forget to have a strong table for it! Most of today's common tables/desks are pretty thin.
CRT studio displays scare the hell out of me. They have that horrible habit of catching fire so I don't dare use them on systems left unattended for ANY amount of time.
[citation needed]
Catching fire?
I haven't used any of the 21-inch Studio displays, but I have definitely seen them flow through surplus, and almost bought one too, except for the fact that they are patently gargantuan, and by this time they were old enough that they would not have held a calibration for more than about four minutes, and most of the ones I saw seemed to have broken stands.
In high school, the yearbook lab had at least one 17-inch Studio Display and I always thought it was gorgeous. (This was when 17-inch CRTs were set in my mind as the default computer display. At the time I was formulating plans to buy a Mac Pro and hook an old 17-inch CRT to it. We can attribute this to being young and woefully uninformed.) Because I was the only one using that particular station most of the time, I ended up running the display at something awesome like 1600x1200, 72 or 85Hz. I was always impressed that it could handle that res at that frequency, because my home monitors tended to top out at 1280x1024x60Hz. I don't remember if the Studio 17 officially supported that resolution, but it worked on our machine. (I was using it with a blue/white G3, probably a /350 or /400.) I wonder how high the Studio 21 would go if you asked it nicely.
Incidentally, I've found that web sites are getting wider by the day, it's one of the modern design trends that does actually bother me. Using a 20/21-inch display will just be nice because you can get to 1600px wide and still have room for stuff on the side. 1280 or 1366 is the minimum width I'd really want for browsing these days, woefully.
In high school, the yearbook lab had at least one 17-inch Studio Display and I always thought it was gorgeous. (This was when 17-inch CRTs were set in my mind as the default computer display. At the time I was formulating plans to buy a Mac Pro and hook an old 17-inch CRT to it. We can attribute this to being young and woefully uninformed.) Because I was the only one using that particular station most of the time, I ended up running the display at something awesome like 1600x1200, 72 or 85Hz. I was always impressed that it could handle that res at that frequency, because my home monitors tended to top out at 1280x1024x60Hz. I don't remember if the Studio 17 officially supported that resolution, but it worked on our machine. (I was using it with a blue/white G3, probably a /350 or /400.) I wonder how high the Studio 21 would go if you asked it nicely.
What counts as true black? My UltraSharp from 2008 and my other Dell LCD from a few years later have no problems generating pretty true blacks, and these weren't too terribly expensive.
Incidentally, I've found that web sites are getting wider by the day, it's one of the modern design trends that does actually bother me. Using a 20/21-inch display will just be nice because you can get to 1600px wide and still have room for stuff on the side. 1280 or 1366 is the minimum width I'd really want for browsing these days, woefully.
Oh man, the FDTrin. Those are nice because their official max resolution is slightly higher than most 24-inch LCD displays, at something like 2304x1440. In 2001, the GDM-FW900 reviewed very well against various flat-panel displays (which may or may not have included ones like the UltraSharp 1901FP and 2001FP), but that was the point at which 17-inch CRT was still definitely the default computer monitor, and when almost every LCD was incredibly expensive, leading people who wanted LCDs to purchase small or low end displays. My mother bought an LCD display in 2001 or 2002, and the one we could afford was definitely a 14-incher at 1024x768 from an off-brand whose colors went wonky before too long in its life.
It would definitely be interesting to be able to read what the original post says, because I imagine if there's any technical information at all about what happened, it's in that post.
Wow I had never seen a CRT catch on fire.
I never had a 21" Studio display, but I had a Sony 21" FD Trinitron and a 19" Trinitron. They were great displays. The main thing I did not like about them is they put out a lot of heat.
Baside the great contrast they had, I liked them because they did blur with fast motion. LCD have gotten good in that respect.
I never had a 21" Studio display, but I had a Sony 21" FD Trinitron and a 19" Trinitron. They were great displays. The main thing I did not like about them is they put out a lot of heat.
Baside the great contrast they had, I liked them because they did blur with fast motion. LCD have gotten good in that respect.
I love my 21 inch, it really make the B&W look like a small tower lol.
That is because the B&W is a minitower.
It may be called a minitower but with 2 bays for drives and hard drive bays for about 6 drives with correct brackets I pin in up to mid or full tower with those handles. :approve:
I suppose you are not familiar with me, and the people who do may chuckle when I say this but lets just leave it at this:
We have very different opinions about mini/mid/full towers.
:lol:
I used to use a case that could take 6x 5.25" drives and 9x 3.5" drives. but it was too small! Or rather, it was very tall but too skinny and the CPU heatsink stuck out too far to get the side panel on. my graphics card's massive aftermarket cooler *almost* had the same clearance issues. Then I temporarily used a mid-tower and could put the side panel on but I could not install all my stuff. Then I got a full-tower and it just barely has room for everything but it is kinda snug. I think I still need a bigger case.
We have very different opinions about mini/mid/full towers.
:lol:
I used to use a case that could take 6x 5.25" drives and 9x 3.5" drives. but it was too small! Or rather, it was very tall but too skinny and the CPU heatsink stuck out too far to get the side panel on. my graphics card's massive aftermarket cooler *almost* had the same clearance issues. Then I temporarily used a mid-tower and could put the side panel on but I could not install all my stuff. Then I got a full-tower and it just barely has room for everything but it is kinda snug. I think I still need a bigger case.
Thats ok we all have our opinions and that works for me. I had a buddy who had a dual processor PC with twin video cards back when that was first introduced and fans on everything. When he would start playing that thing would dim the light on his desk and with some 12 fans it sounded like it was talking off for the moon.
Do you happen to have a photo of the tower which takes 6x 5.25" drives and 9x 3.5" drives (presumably all at the same time)?
I somehow have a feeling that many of us would be interested to see what it looks like.
It actually only took 3x 3.5" in stock form.
http://www.poopr.org/images/zbgc10onr73s73hsesf0.jpg
There are only five 3.5" HDDs and one floppy drive in the case. And one of the bays conflicted with my GFX card's power connectors. Only a single 5.25" bay is empty.
And this is the latest pic I have atm. The only changes IIRC are upgrading to a HIS Radeon HD 7950 IceQ x2 3GB and changing some of the SATA cables around.
http://www.poopr.org/images/sf35cno79s8d2f2en4et.jpg
And a similarly old pic from behind, except now it also has a serial port poking out the lower watercooling tube hole thing. And I got rid of the PS3 because it was stupid. Sitting around for years being barely touched because GT5 is lame. If you think that is a lot of cables I also have a USB hub sitting under my display.. :-/
http://www.poopr.org/images/g3ndrdowkv3e9tbherm.jpg
That 7950(centre) is a good sized card! No way would it have fit in my old case when the Radeon HD 3850(bottom) was already at the limit.
http://www.poopr.org/images/v8yvr65ewumowa91eqp.jpg
I think my dream case (excluding custom built ones) might have to be a LianLi PC-G70 or PC-A77F or some such monster. Perhaps a large Mountain Mods case even. But for the time being I cannot really justify the cost of upgrading my case so it must wait. I know it does not look like it, but I do have priorities.
I love my PC. I use it to do ALL OF THE THINGS!
However it is still not big enough, and does not have enough stuff in it. I have plans on watercooling eventually.. Some day my pretty 480 radiator, just wait the world will see you.
http://www.poopr.org/images/zbgc10onr73s73hsesf0.jpg
There are only five 3.5" HDDs and one floppy drive in the case. And one of the bays conflicted with my GFX card's power connectors. Only a single 5.25" bay is empty.
And this is the latest pic I have atm. The only changes IIRC are upgrading to a HIS Radeon HD 7950 IceQ x2 3GB and changing some of the SATA cables around.
http://www.poopr.org/images/sf35cno79s8d2f2en4et.jpg
And a similarly old pic from behind, except now it also has a serial port poking out the lower watercooling tube hole thing. And I got rid of the PS3 because it was stupid. Sitting around for years being barely touched because GT5 is lame. If you think that is a lot of cables I also have a USB hub sitting under my display.. :-/
http://www.poopr.org/images/g3ndrdowkv3e9tbherm.jpg
That 7950(centre) is a good sized card! No way would it have fit in my old case when the Radeon HD 3850(bottom) was already at the limit.
http://www.poopr.org/images/v8yvr65ewumowa91eqp.jpg
I think my dream case (excluding custom built ones) might have to be a LianLi PC-G70 or PC-A77F or some such monster. Perhaps a large Mountain Mods case even. But for the time being I cannot really justify the cost of upgrading my case so it must wait. I know it does not look like it, but I do have priorities.
I love my PC. I use it to do ALL OF THE THINGS!
However it is still not big enough, and does not have enough stuff in it. I have plans on watercooling eventually.. Some day my pretty 480 radiator, just wait the world will see you.