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- From: ambi@it-next2.bu.edu (Michael Amirault)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Bitch, Bitch, Btich (was Re: New Trinitron Color Monitors)
- Message-ID: <107969@bu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:45:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.064021.16036@cs.yale.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.064021.16036@cs.yale.edu>
- nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
- >
- > The Fimi sucks; it's an embarrassment to NeXT. The new Sony
- > is so much better it's not even funny. We previously refused
- > to purchase color NeXT systems without 3rd party displays
- > (Nanao T560i). In the future we won't hesitate to order
- > the NeXT/Sony 17" display.
- >
-
- Am I the only one who absolutely *loves* there NeXTStation
- Color with the Fimi 17" display?? Everyday I read in these
- newsgroups how:
-
- a) the Fimi 17" display is a piece of ****.
- b) 3.0 is so buggy that is shoudln't have been released.
- c) All the NeXT machines running 3.0 are too slow unless
- they have 32MB of memory.
-
- I can't be the only one out there who thinks this all a bunch of
- garbage, can I? I have a NSC at home with 16MB of memory and Fimi
- 17" monitor and I think it's the best thing I've ever used.
-
- I've had virtually no trouble with bugs in 3.0. Sure, people here
- have outlined ways to crash your machine (I've yet to find a machine
- that couldn't be crashed) but I generally don't keep repeating events
- that I know are going to crash my machine :-) In the 10 months since I've
- had my machine (4 with 3.0 running), my machine has crashed about 4
- times and that is through a lot of use.
-
- I have no problems with speed either. I think speed is a relative
- thing but I think the people who are complaining that you can't run
- 3.0 without at least 20MB color and 16MB b+w are off base. I'm writing
- this message on a NeXTCube '040 with 8MB of memory and while I would
- classify it as slow, it is still *very* usable.
-
- So, if there is *anyone* out there who feels the same way as I do please
- let me know!! I find it really difficult to believe that all of these
- recent postings (bitchings, whinings, NeXT death forcasters..) represent
- as much of the NeXT community as they are representing in netnews traffic
- (50%?).
-
- Mike Amirault
- (these views are obviously my own...)
-