Comment by alexwasserman
2 years ago
A neighbor gave me his aging Apple ColorSync 850 back around 1999/2000 - https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/applevision_colorsync/sp...
67.4 lbs, but 20" and 1600x1200, which was incredible 25 years ago. It was by far the best monitor of my friend group, despite the heft.
It took a long time to find an LCD to replace it with.
Wow. Just that image of the monitor brings back memories of reading Mac magazine because they used that same example pictures on all their ads.
I think we had one of those in the Remote Sensing Lab at my university. You could fit an entire Civilisation 1 map on screen without having to scroll vertically (you still had to scroll horizontally - natch).
Early LCDs had that dumb dead pixel thing too, which made the upgrade from CRT risky.
Modern screen may have the issue too, but pixels are so small I probably wouldn’t notice.
Nowadays you get dead lines, like blue or red, and with high resolution it's generally liveable unless you're super sensitive. I'm fairly intolerant and had a Samsung with a blue line, but didn't bother me much.
I don't believe dead lines are a common problem with modern displays. I would certainly return one if it had a dead line.
There's a dead pixel on my 4k monitor. It's so small that I think it's just a speck of dust, if I notice it at all.
Haha AppleVision