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If that's all you want, pick one up this afternoon. They've been around for quite a while now.
Here's the manuf's page. :-)

If this is in fact a wireless monitor, for the imac or otherwise, it's isn't a new idea. Microsoft came out with a reference platform to do exactly this, see viewsonic's version, but unfortunately they cost a ton. It'll be interesting to see if apple goes down the same route.

I would be pretty cool to have an imac with a detachable wireless monitor, but the imacs are supposed to be 17" and 20" neither of which is particularly portable.

Viewsonic released, about two days later, this display, 9.1 million pixels goodness. Note that all those pixels are found on a screen that is 8 inch smaller than the Apple one, the pixels must be so tiny I doubt you can see them otherwise than by looking very closely at your screen and even then, images must be incredibly sharp. Working with text must be the ultimate pain however. Those monitors (even the Apple one) aren't use as main displays for this reason, whatever Apple tells you. These are made for media work, to display the project not the toolbars. The viewsonic screen requires a Quatro from Nvidia to drive it. the card-display combo will cost you an arm and a leg though so you better be needing it cause there won't be no gaming on those...

See their PDF.

FPS's? TV? dude: this display isn't made for you.

Read the Viewsonic product page: ideal for satellite imaging and digital content creation. Says nothing about a playable framerate (with a friggin Matrox Parhelia!) or watching bootleg anime DiVX movies.

This is a problem common to Slashdot readers -- "if it doesn't work for me, it's obviously not good for anybody."

P.S. after a year on a 23" CRT I can't imagine downgrading to anything less; a friend of mine uses two of them!

I gaurantee that they both use the same LCD component, from the same manufacturer, and probably from the same fab, but they didn't just rebrand eachother's product.

ViewSonic's Product Info about the VP2290b.

1. the first one from IBM was the T220, which required 4 separate DVI inputs and only worked with slow 2D cards, i.e. the Matrox G200MMS provided with it. Initial price $20.000.- then lowered to $16.000.- (it was indeed very slow....)
2. IBM renamed it to T221 and improved it to handle 1- and 2-DVI inputs, thereby enabling 3D-accelerated cards to handle it: original FireGL cards finally could drive this at about 25Hz refresh rate
3. support came for other dual-DVI cards, such as the Quadro 4, and more refresh rates available: 20Hz,24Hz and 25Hz using both DVI ports, and 13Hz using only one
4. as of last year at Siggraph, IBM did not support Apple systems for these displays, but ViewSonic did, with their own version of the display (IBM's hardware repackaged, I presume) named VP2290b however, only a Radeon 8500 single DVI out was supported, hence the 13Hz refresh rate being the only one available...

More than for X-rays, it's been useful so far for astronomy applications, large dataset visualizations, etc. Being stuck at 13Hz on OS X, I have not put it as my main desktop display in the end.

Finally, although not as bad as on XP, there are still too many hardwired fixed-sized widgets in Mac OS X's interface to make a 200dpi display really usable. I'd go for a 30" 100dpi instead, at least for now, for general desktop use (XCode sure could do with some more real estate...)

I thought the entire time that I was using a print out which glowed. It was incredible quality. So what if it costs like twice as much as the Apple screen, once you are willing to spend $3300 on a monitor, what $6300 is only a bonus. Also, since it's only 22.2" instead of 30", you don't have to worry about severe neck damage from sitting less than a 2 meters from the screen. This screen is perfectly well designed to be about 80cm from your nose.

So while Apple is bragging about making a revolutionary technology, I'd say it would have been revolutionary if the DPI was better than 202. Increasing the size doesn't mean anything. BTW, this monitor also uses the dual DVI connections. So Apple is not even close to being the first.

3840 x 2400. 9,216,000 pixels for about $6,300. Per pixel, that's cheaper than buying two 30" Cinema displays.

Here's a better option... It's cheaper and less susceptible to broken components.

Get any LCD monitor. Any size will do. Any size above 1280x1024 will probably be wasted. Just make sure it has at least one VGA input.

Then get a Viewsonic NextVision N6. Any and all video games and playback devices can route through that box to your computer monitor. It supports non-passthrough signals up to 1280x1024. Obviously, a VGA passthrough will be whatever you're sending without alteration. There's no perceptible delay for games, and it doesn't suffer the same color problems as the older VB50HRTV (which would make extreme white into black and vice versa).

I want an LCD panel that will let me view this without scaling or cropping

The Viewsonic VP2290b will get you close.

It's a 3840x2400 pixel 22.2 inch wide LCD.

Close - (I just tackled this issue w/ a personal ss5) - SGI uses sync-on-green. Sun's use COMPOSITE sync (H and V in one wire) whereas PC's use SEPARATE sync (an H wire and a V sync wire). My KDS monitor wouldn't work on the ss5 with one of those 13w3-to-hd15 adapters. Solution was to buy a ViewSonic p95f - look at the specs, input signal supports HV separated, COMPOSITE (sun) and sync-on-green (SGI).

The above article references some products.
Here's the links:
1. Aver.com (product link is HERE has a closed unit (no fan noise, solid state it seems) that is advertised to turn a VGA monitor into a TV. Price: $130.

2. InnoVision (product link is HERE same features. Price: Unknown, pricegrabber.com doesn't have any prices nor does the manufacturer site.

3. ViewSonic (product link is HERE
same features. Price: $163

4. WalMart (buy a Micron SuSE PC model "Microtel SYSMAR746 PC With 1.4 GHz Duron" for $199.98, install a Video Card like the "ATI TV Wonder Pro that does this kind of stuff for $65 at Amazon.com figure out how to control it easily and eliminate fan noise) and you've spent about $275 including shipping. It may be more versatile, but you may not need it to be versatile.

Just some links, hope this is helpful.

Viewsonic makes a very nice one that I use. Plug monitor into box, box into computer, ps2/gamecube/xbox into box, switch with handy remote. I've never been happy with the resolution on tv tunder cards. if you're dead set on one anything from wintv is fine I suppose. Viewsonic VB50HRTV

Where do I get a solid state monitor?

Here's a few.

Ten inch for $750, fifteen inch $960. of course it's for use with windows XP (think remote desktop connection), but the thing is here today, and was brought to you by a large company even. The very item you want. Too bad it's windows-centric, but one wonders if you could somehow haxor a VNC client onto it.

Notice the 9X link!

Taken from the plex.us site:

Monitors

Fake Link: http://www.go-l.com/monitors/index.htm

Real Links: 9XMedia -- Panoram Tech -- ViewSonic

Seems real enough to me...

1. NextVision N6 by Viewsonic
2. Sony SXGA LCD monitor
3. Sony stereo system
4. video/audio cables

While you enjoy your time shopping for this equipment, please remember that when you buy products made in a particular country, you indirectly support the value system of that country. So, please avoid products that are made in China (which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong). At Amnesty International and Tibet Online, you can find plenty of reasons to avoid products "Made in China" (which includes "Made in Taiwan" and "Made in Hong Kong").

Viewsonic Specs

THIS IS NOT A TABLET PC.

This lameness filter sucks.

I don't know why you think ViewSonic exclusively sells 'crappy' shadowmask-based monitors, but just a FYI: they also sell monitors with the prettier aperature grilles.

e.g. I've got a flat, crisp & bright ViewSonic PF790 at home.

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do you have any idea how much bandwidth goes through the DVI cable for this thing? it pains me to think it.

and oh, anybody else who read thinks LCDs have crappy resolution, EAT. YOUR. WORDS.

well, too bad it's 7000 dollars, but damn that's a tricked out screen.

Any problems red green might encounter can be fixed with duct tape.

I very nearly sprayed my drink all over my VX900. Good work. :)

(I fully expect that non-Canadians will not understand the humour in the quoted one-liner.)

IBM made a 400 dpi monitor once and said they had no plans on marketing it because MS Windows couldn't scale properly.

You mean this one? It's 200 ppi, not 400 ppi, and they've been selling it for a couple of years now. ViewSonic also sells a version of it.

I know a radiologist who lives in Italy and works for a US-based firm-- I'm not sure if it's a hospital or a practice or what, I've never been clear on that. He has one of these monitors at home. Because he lives in Europe, during his day it's night in the US, so they email him digital images of CT's and whatnot and he reads them on this great big monitor. I've seen it in action once; it's like looking at real film on a real light-box. It's incredible.

There's a little more involved with an LCD TV compared to a CRT TV. You have to deinterlace and filter the output, doing a 3:2 pulldown if needed, and so on. Unlike an interlaced CRT TV, interlaced images will look very bad on a progressive display like an LCD or computer monitor. That's one of the reasons most TV tuner cards tend to only capture one field of the frame instead of both.

There's a little more involved with an LCD TV compared to a CRT TV. You have to deinterlace and filter the output, doing a 3:2 pulldown if needed, and so on. Unlike an interlaced CRT TV, interlaced images will look very bad on a progressive display like an LCD or computer monitor. That's one of the reasons most TV tuner cards tend to only capture one field of the frame instead of both.

I very nearly sprayed Coca-Cola all over my VX900, which would have been a hell of a mess to clean up.

Mod parent up. This is the funniest one-liner I've heard in a long, long time.

Good work. :)

Screw "720p." I'll take one of these and get my HDTV fix in 1280x1024. Oh, and it works with any size monitor that supports that resolution(or several lower resolutions, if need be).

Why can't these home theater techie-wannabes just learn how pixel resolutions work? If i wanted to know how many rows of pixels were on the screen, I'd discard the first number! Yeah, yeah, scanlines are different, but not with HD.

Fight the power! Down with cruft!

Try the Viewsonic V35. It's the thinnest Pocket PC available, and seems to be on par with Palm thickness wise.

Check out the preview on Pocket PC Thoughts for more info.

RTCW looks great - response time is 25ms so no artifacts that I can see and with the 600:1 contrast, it looks so much better than my wife's 21" ViewSonic. I'm really looking forward to the X updates that will handle pivoting the screen.

It uses less energy than a CRT and I think it's easier on the environment when it's disposed of. Speaking of disposal, that is one down side... the 3 year warranty will probably just cover the life of the backlight. That's typically the first thing to go.

An 18" flat panel is now on order at work...

There is an awful ambiguity here between flat screen displays such as LCD displays, and flat screen monitors, which are still big bulky CRT based monitors, but have a flat screen rather than the slightly curved screens on earlier CRT monitors. Many manufacturers, including mainstream names like NEC and Viewsonic market Flat Screen Monitors . If these are getting into the count of expected sales then of course they will top sales of bulkier traditional models this year, but it will not do much to make space available on your desk.

One thing that really upsets me about thes LCD reviews is that the authors are totally lazy. They say "LCD's are more expensive up-front, but they're smaller and save desk space." Fine, but that statement is useless without numbers.

1) Real estate
Save desk space? Whatever, LCDs let you save floor space by getting a smaller desk. So, how's this pay? Well, the initial cost of the LCD should probably go up a bit, since most folks don't have a narrow desk. So, tack on $50 as a base cost for a new desk. (If you shop at IKEA, you can get a new top and re-use your existing legs, driving the cost down towards like $25. If you're seriously rich, maybe you'll drop $500 on a new desk, but you probably already own the LCD.)

So, now the repeating costs. A 2' desk that's 6 feet wide will save you 6 aq'. In Manhattan, a 1000 sq' apartment is $2000/mo. or $2/sq'/mo. In Pittsburgh, it's more like $.10/sq'/mo. Obviously, where you live makes a difference. So, annually, we have:
LCD Savings
Cheap cities: $7/yr
Expensive cities: $144/yr (no wonder that every business in Manhattan buys LCDs as a matter of course)
Note that the payoff period for the desk is more than 9 years in Pittsburgh, so there is about 0 space savings.

2) Power
Unless you live in California, I think electricity's about $.07/kW/h. Let's assume you use power saving reasonably and stuff. If you work at home, or multiple people use your computer throughout the day, the monitor's probably going to be on like 12 hrs/day. If you're a more causal user, it's probably more like 4. If you use your computer to read email once a week, you don't read slashdot.

So, according to the article, monitors use 100w, LCDs use 50. Assume you use your computer 260 days per year (5 weeks/year not using). For the heavy user, CRT is 100*12*260*.07/1000 = $21/yr. The causal user is $7/yr. LCDs are half that, for a cost savings of $10 and $4.

So, how expensive are LCDs? Well, 4 years seems a reasonable length of time to own a monitor. So here's a comparison for a 17" LCD and 19" CRT (which have about the same viewable area). Assumes the initial cost of the LCD is $650(+50 in Manhattan), CRT is $250. Lists the cost difference of an LCD:

Manhattan (heavy use): $152 less
Manhattan (light use): $144 less
Pittsburgh (heavy use): $260 more
Pittsburgh (light use): $384 more

Hopefully this ads a touch of rigor to your buying decision. I suspect that if you live outside the energy-subsidized US, the energy costs will become more significant. If you live in a hot climate, you might want to factor in A/C costs (see below). Also not factored in is the reduced eyestrain with LCDs. For those of you who work long hours, this is probably worth the LCD price on its own.

For another take on TCO, which is more detailed WRT power & cooling, but seems less useful to me, check out this page.

With the costs of energy constantly rising? Yes.

LCDs use about half the power as CRTs (Viewsonic). Sanyo and Kodak already have a 5.5 active matrix OLED that runs on 2 watts at 10 volts. While the 15 inch model would presumably use 9 times this, that's still close to half the power consumption of a similar LCD.

Fujitus makes some of the things I've seen on CNBC, so if you're looking for a specific one it's probably them.

I had a bookmark to a distributer that dealt w/ older Fujitsus, but I seem to have lost it, so yeah. Try eBay under the laptop category and select Fujitsu as manufacturer, they're under there. And try their site

Also Viewsonic makes the "SuperPDA" Viewpad 1000

These things are out there, you just have to look. New stuff is expensive and older (ie. cheap) stuff isn't gonna be anythin' special.

If that fails you as always, just do a Google search.

Sorry, forgot to make ViewSonic a link. Yes, not 20.1", but 19", multi-domain technology (no, the Dell doesn't have that) for accurate colors through a crazy-wide viewing angle, a very respectable 25ms refresh rate for super-smooth motion, and they look gorgeous.

Bigger is not always better, kids.

I cant wait for the day that I can replace them with cheap, lightweight, easily moved *anythings*.

That day has come. (Okay, not cheap, but the rest fits nicely.)

FWIW, those 20" CRT monitors are probably about 18.5" viewable each. Roughly US$1,800 will give you two of these babies, one of which has just graced my desk. It's 19" of pure viewing pleasure, with multidomain technology for accurate color at any viewing angle up to 170 horizontal and vertical, and it tips the scales at a mere 17.5 pounds. 12080x1024 resolution looks really nice on this panel (which isn't surprising seeing as that's its native resolution.)

Don't throw out your existing speakers if you like bass, though. Hence the old but nice Yamaha YST-M20DSPs next to it. The literature actually mentions "powerful 3-watt speakers", which almost brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard. They sound quite crisp, but are pitifully lacking in bass. (Yes, even when the bass is cranked in the OSD control.)

Having both HD15 and DVI-D connectors was a requirement for my next monitor, and this fits the bill nicely.

The built-in microphone is a nice touch. I don't recall it being mentioned in the lit; I only discovered it when I saw the MIC OUT connector on the back panel. I believe the opening for the mic itself is right between the top of the N and I in the ViewSonic logo on the front panel. It's very discreet.

Enough rambling -- grab a high-quality LCD today and don't look back.

I cant wait for the day that I can replace them with cheap, lightweight, easily moved *anythings*.

That day has come. (Okay, not cheap, but the rest fits nicely.)

FWIW, those 20" CRT monitors are probably about 18.5" viewable each. Roughly US$1,800 will give you two of these babies, one of which has just graced my desk. It's 19" of pure viewing pleasure, with multidomain technology for accurate color at any viewing angle up to 170 horizontal and vertical, and it tips the scales at a mere 17.5 pounds. 12080x1024 resolution looks really nice on this panel (which isn't surprising seeing as that's its native resolution.)

Don't throw out your existing speakers if you like bass, though. Hence the old but nice Yamaha YST-M20DSPs next to it. The literature actually mentions "powerful 3-watt speakers", which almost brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard. They sound quite crisp, but are pitifully lacking in bass. (Yes, even when the bass is cranked in the OSD control.)

Having both HD15 and DVI-D connectors was a requirement for my next monitor, and this fits the bill nicely.

The built-in microphone is a nice touch. I don't recall it being mentioned in the lit; I only discovered it when I saw the MIC OUT connector on the back panel. I believe the opening for the mic itself is right between the top of the N and I in the ViewSonic logo on the front panel. It's very discreet.

Enough rambling -- grab a high-quality LCD today and don't look back.

Watch DVDs on your spiffy monitor with your cheapo DVD player and your 5 chanel sound WITH your computer turned off (no CSS cops, no BSA) with one of these Okay, it's still not five chanel but for $100 bucks it beats a TV and who really needs a TV

It has a much bigger screen than a pocket PC (perfect for showing charts, illustrations, etc). It is already wireless and would connect directly with your existing server. It is really just a mobile touchscreen monitor
[viewsonic.com]

has a cheaper and superious line of 1600x1200 LCD displays that have been out since late last year.

20inch beige
20 inch black
23inch black

What more, the 20inch models can be had for under $1700!

has a cheaper and superious line of 1600x1200 LCD displays that have been out since late last year.

20inch beige
20 inch black
23inch black

What more, the 20inch models can be had for under $1700!

has a cheaper and superious line of 1600x1200 LCD displays that have been out since late last year.

20inch beige
20 inch black
23inch black

What more, the 20inch models can be had for under $1700!

i noticed that same thing...looks remarkably similar to this listed on their site. they just changed its looks a bit and added the software needed to run your main computer from it...

Viewsonic VP201mb and VP230mb are the some nicest LCD monitors. I've no idea how good their color-fidelity is, though.

Viewsonic VP201mb and VP230mb are the some nicest LCD monitors. I've no idea how good their color-fidelity is, though.

The Viewpad 1000 in my lap seems to be working just fine and the airplane 100 is available in May 2002.

The Viewpad 1000 in my lap seems to be working just fine and the airplane 100 is available in May 2002.

View the viewsonic product Here (Which I like better IMHO)

Microsofts video of a family happily using their portable monitor: Here

I the title of the article is a little off. These products are more like simple portable monitors more than anything else. If anything they are glorified WinCE machines.

Tablets are entire computers that are held and used like the product above, except your actually carrying around the entire device. Microsoft showed some manufacturers products @ Comdex and is even releasing a Tablet Edition of Windows XP

This would be perfect for health care providers. I develop software for hospitals and using these devices will make doctors, nurses, patients level of care quicker and more reliable. My company is using iPaq's / Palm PDA's currently and looking into the Viewsonic SuperPDA for Tablet based entry.
So in short it will have viable use.