ARTICLES ON LCD MONTIORS

No, but I have a lot of experience myself with a variety of them.

"Normal" dot pitch of monitors is about .010" square + or - .001, and most people find the stock Windows and Mac OS display dialogs and menus acceptable at that resolution.

I found by experiment that my Dell laptop monitors with about 1920 pixels on a 15" screen & 0068" square pixels is quite small for most people, but I have 20-20 with my glasses and find it just fine for SolidWorks. It makes the images on screen look far less 'jaggy', and gives me far more 'real estate' than if I ordered the lower resolution available which is 1680 pixels = .0078 square pixels, though some like that as icons and menu choices are more readable to them. With fewer pixels on screen to render with the lower resolutions, there is probably faster screen redraws in SolidWorks, though that is my speculation.

Contrast & Brightness are important, though color fidelity is probably not needed for CAD, unless you do photoshop artwork & web design.

Video cards will normally drive only a limited set of screen resolutions and usually a set horizontal x vertical size ratio, so be sure it is right.

My personal choice on screens has always been to get one with a damn good warranty (& maybe extended warranty), as I don't like paying for LCDs that flake out. That might hold even more true when the monitor starts having USB, speakers, etc.

Bo

I am on my second 21" LCD. The first was a Viewsonic that still works quite well and the newest is a Samsung SyncMaster 213T a year old now. I have forgotten most of the technical yardsticks but remember that the two best looking LCD's out a year ago were the Samsung SyncMasters and the wide screen Apple ones with the glass bezels which are made for them by Samsung. Perhaps another make has come to the front in the last year but be sure to check out the Samsungs. You will never go back to a CRT.

Regards,

Dennis