Fran Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I plan to buy a new iMac. I need the large monitor due to vision problems. I > would like to hear pros and cons of the 20-inch iMac. I had a 333mhz iMac at > one time. I liked it but the monitor was too small.
With vision problems, please take a good look, I mean LOOK, at the screen before you buy. Compare the sharpness of various resolutions on the LCD monitor with the available resolutions on a 21 inch CRT. Having the largest iMac screen does not mean that you will see larger type letters at the LCD monitor's default and sharpest setting. As I recall from looking at the various size LCD iMacs at the store, the type sizes, at the default resolution for each size monitor, were very much alike, meaning small. Only the real estate was different. For example, with the 17 inch screen at its default resolution, one can put two word processing or mail documents side by side with little or no overlap side to side. With the 15 inch screen, one sees the same documents with considerable overlap. And with the 20 inch screen, I would expect to see 2 and one half documents side by side. Perhaps the folks here with the 20 inch screen would verify this. When one selects a lower resolution setting on an LCD monitor in order to see larger type, the sharpness of the type suffers. This may be tolerable for you. On the other hand, when one selects a lower resolution on a CRT (tube) monitor, the type size gets larger without losing sharpness. This may be significant enough for you to buy a Mac that will support a CRT. -- Al Poulin Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, proactive self-defense is for the rest of us. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
