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On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Peter Lewis wrote: > <snip> > > TFT, in > >my opinion, is better than most monitors. > > <snip> > > I guess this is a matter of personal preference, but I disagree. CRTs > literally shoot images into your eyeballs. Laptop screens, even TFTs, are > dull by comparison. The best TFT I've seen, the brand new, Mac 20th > anniversary edition, at 800x600 in thousands of colors, is quite good (at > $7,500 a copy it better be!) but still inferior to my .26 dot pitch Nokia. I would imagine that's because of the power restrictions on most laptop displays. I had a color LCD TV which was dull using the backlight, but flip the back open and let the sunlight through and it was very bright (problem was they put a nice glossy layer of plastic over the screen so being in sunlight almost turned it into a mirror) . I'm curious how a "desktop" TFT would look if it had an incandescent or halogen backlight instead of a fluorescent backlight. The biggest difference I noticed when I first got a laptop was how much *sharper* the display was than a monitor. The "individual" pixels that made up the letters were razor sharp almost to the point of being distracting. Then I used a monitor again and felt like everything was out of focus. :) -- John H. Kim kim@mak.com