SGI 17.3'' 1600SW TFT LCD FLAT PANEL MONITOR w/ 32mb AGP video card $1418.99

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iota

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This is the best flatscreen that you'r going to find, IMHO. If it's a good deal, go for it.

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RobK

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This flat panel is FANTASTIC. Much better quality than any of thost $hitty 1200X1000 18.1's.
See my thread here at FatWallet.com
 
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chinman75

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i heard very bad things about the oxygen
go with the multilink adapter or try to get a number 9 card that they had
 
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trikster2

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For what it's worth:

I had the pleasure of using a lot of flat pannel monitors when I worked with research vessels (where space was a premium).

The quality of these SGI pannels far surpased any other flat pannel (other brands I remember using were viewsonic and nec).

At the time the SGI sales rep claimed the excelent quality was because the monitor was used in combination with the digital video card (imagine 128 great 2d). I am not sure how well this monitor would perform using an analog card.

Something VERY flakey about this monitor: There is no brightness adjustment on the monitor, adjustment is done through a special application....

Another flakey thing about this monitor is the aspect ratio. It's a little like a movie screen or HDTV. VERY nice for putting two web pages or documents side by side.


EDIT 12/03: Sorry if I gave the impression that the aspect ratio is only a bad thing. It does take a little getting used to, and many apps aren't designed to work well with it (for example, view a web page full screen). However, overall I really enjoyed working on this monitor and as often as it was akward, the aspect ratio was an advantage.
 
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zhensel

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I wouldn't call have a wide-screen aspect ratio "flaky"... seeing how two of the higher quality flat screens out there (this and the apple cinema display) have them, it is getting relatively standardized. I envision most computers going towards 16x9 flat panels as oppose to 4x3 ones. Just makes more sense aspect wise (especially with HDTV coming...). Of course, this is still a long time away.
 
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djbacklash

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Also, as for the brightness controls, the SGI MultiLink adapter box that comes with the flatpanel (if you get the kit without the Oxygen card) has buttons for alignment, brightness, and any other control imagineable (you can now have it stretch the screen so lower res games can go fullscreen..it doesn't look as "weird" as you may think due to it's 16:9 res).

Anyway, I first purchased the SGI 1600SW with the Number Nine Revolution IV-FP card ($2500) about a year ago, and just recently upgraded with a MultiLink adapter box ($500) and Matrox G400Max + DVI ($250). It really surprised me when SGI dropped the price by a grand! Whatever the case, I have no regrets spending $3200+ on my monitor, and I plan on buying a second one for some dual monitor lovin (gotta wait til after Christmas though..holidays are killer for college students such as myself!) :) $1400 for the BEST monitor on the market - I say GO FOR IT!
 
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RobK

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Hey, I'm using the Oxygen right now, and it blows the hell out of the Revolution IV card. I'm not a gaming-wanker, so I can't tell you (nor do I care) how well it plays Quake or whatever games are hot now, but it plays DVD's fantastically (with only software decoding). The Revolution IV is unusable to watch DVD's, even on my PIII800/512MB RAM.
Oh, and the wide aspect ratio is nice. Only complaint is that I wish I could run it turned 90 degrees for "tall" viewing of web pages.
This is a superior monitor though, especially compared to the crap that Viewsonic tries to sell these days.
 
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Steve0

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Looks like it's $1588.95 now...

Edit: Did a price comparison at shopper.com and there's lot of vendors who have it for $1420 and up. So even at the "thread price" of $1400 that's just warm.

Oh well...would have been good with my new ATI Radeon AIW.

Steve
 
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hans007

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well if you buy it at buy.com you can get it for like $1388 actually - $30 coupon, then again a lot of people live in california and tax would add like $115
 
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Vinny N

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How likely are these to have any dead pixels on arrival? Or after some use?(any comments from current owners would be nice)
How are the response times in games?

I had a pretty bad experience with a Samsung 17" TFT monitor(this was about 10 months ago, it cost ~$2600), plenty of dead pixels that revealed themselves after a few days, dust that made it below the surface of the screen, and horrid response times in games(it had an analog interface if that has anything to do with exagerrated response times).
 
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hans007

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samsung's LCDs aren't that great, hence the price usually. SGI 's are like the best you can get, but you will always get the sluggish ness in games, its not because of the interface, the pixels cant refresh fast enough, some newer panels have faster switching pixels
 
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