Yes, my understanding too is that they all work at HD resolution, which is pretty unimpressive if you halve the vertical frequency. But that's what constitutes a cheap "high-resolution" screen this days. One can only wait and hope that people get into the 4K monitors, when life will become nicer for us.
Adrian
On 9 Sep 2013, at 08:33, Randy Read <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alice,
>
> I've got an LG DM2352D-PZ passive stereo monitor, which seems to be
> comparable to the Zalman and works under the Zalman setting in coot and
> ccp4mg on my Mac. I've been happy with it, at least since I worked out some
> video settings (very different from the defaults) that made it easier to look
> at the screen for long periods of time. For stereo mode, it would be nice if
> it were higher than HD resolution, but I don't think the Zalman monitors were
> different in that respect.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Randy
>
> On 9 Sep 2013, at 06:26, Alice Vrielink <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I want to buy a stereo monitor for use with Pymol and Coot. I have a Zalman
>> monitor currently
>> but want another monitor for use by others in the lab. It seems that Zalman
>> monitors
>> have been discontinued. Does anyone have experience with other monitors and
>> could
>> share which are compatible with the above software. Most of the computers
>> that would
>> be used with this monitor would be Macs.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!!
>>
>> Alice
>>
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