Which monitor? — #8

Post #8 by Gil

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 - 14:37
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/which-monitor.18866/

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Personally, as someone who has owned both, I'd go with neither - they're both crappy monitors really. Try and find a 17" VGA CRT from a PC, and a VGA adaptor...you should be able to find a newish one pretty cheaply, and it'll probably be a lot better than either the ColourPlus or the MS15".
Another option, if you're happy being stuck at 640x480 is the Macintosh Colour Display. Its a small 14" Trinitron that was often bundled with LCs...should be fairly easy to find, and despite being fixed at 680x480, they're a very nice little monitor. The Macintosh 16" Colour Display is good too, but takes up a bit more space than the 14" MCD.

Yes, they're not the greatest, but for this application, it doesn't need a great monitor. Just word processing and mild internet, mostly. I don't have a spare VGA monitor, and I don't want to go down the list of manufacturers and model #'s to find which ones are good, reliable, etc.. I did consider the Macintosh Color Display, but I haven't been able to find any for sale.

So I'm going with the Multiple Scan 15.