Apple Reviews

I was previously using a 21" CRT at my home office. Although it had plenty of real estate, the footprint was about 1.5' x 2'. Frankly, I'm surprised that the desk could support the weight! The NEC was a welcome replacement. It arrived while I was at work one day. My wife (who has little computer hardware experience) unpacked and installed it in only a few minutes. The picture is clear and the actual viewable size is more like a 17" CRT than a 15". We are very happy with the quality of this monitor as well as the regained desk space.

What can i say? nothing beats a 20" viewable flat panel monitor. If you get this you will never need to get a monitor again. This flat panel monitor can fit anywhere in your house. But you must be willing to spend $$$ if you want something like this. think about it long and hard, that's what i did plus i had the money to spend. so choose carefully but i really recommend this monitor to everyone.

I have always had large screens, starting with black/white models in the early 1980s. For the past several years, I have used a 21" color CRT. I've wanted a large (20"+) LCD monitor for a long time. My search revealed that only NEC offers them right now.

The NEC LCD 2010X monitor is flatter and, I think, has richer colors than the CRT. It is lighter, does not emit UV rays, does not glare and does not refresh (flicker). Most important, it takes up a lot less space on the desk. I run it at 1280 x 1024 and can get two nearly-full pages on the screen side by side. On the other hand, at this resolution, the LCD screen seems slightly grainier than the CRT monitor.

The panel can be easily rotated or raised/lowered 3". The screen measures a full 20.1" diagonally. It appears the 2010X is the latest model; it came out about November 2000. As advertised, the screen may be viewed from the side. It is legible at 85 degrees and readable at about 60.

Stop suffering with inadequately small screens. Professionals need the best tools. The NEC 2010X is the best.

As a publisher and an author of 113 books (including revisions and foreign-language editions) and over 500 magazine articles, I spend my entire day in front of a monitor. I want the best. I recommend this monitor to anyone who spends a lot of time staring at a screen. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

This is a *nice* monitor for the price. I'm using it with a PowerBook Titanium which has a direct DVI output on the back - so the video signal is digital all the way. Very crisp, sharp, and *bright*. I was worried that it wouldn't be bright enough after comparing it to the 1560M, but it's *plenty* bright - I only have it set to 47% of the possible brighness now, and that's just fine. At full brightness it blows me away. Also, I was worried that 15" wouldn't be big enough, but it's plenty big after being used to a 15" laptop display.

My only complaint is that it was a little tough to get the color properly matched between the laptop and the new display - probably due to the new display being much brighter. ColorSync to the rescue though - I have it pretty close now.

I can't comment on how this would work with VGA since I haven't tried it - but it works very well with DVI. Beware though - the cable is not included - you'll have to buy one separately.

Firstly, the missing specs: <[local website]P>I finally replaced my NEC 21" CRT after 8 years and three CPU's. It still worked, but CRT resolutions at 1280, even at 21", are fuzzy. At least in comparison to an LCD.

Brand loyalty, 1600x1200 20", black frame, no stupid speakers (I *hate* built in speakers), and no embossed, saturated color logo (*yuck*), led me to the single choice of 2080UX-BK. My high expectations were exceeded.

This monitor is top quality and it's all about screen. The thin, black frame does not creak when adjusted. Beyond the pixel contrast that I expect from a quality lcd, I was most impressed with the 'lazy susan' swivel in the base. The swivel avoids force for the most common left-right adjustment.

My advice: Put your money into the monitor. It's the only component that really lasts.

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If you have both 35mm and medium format transparencies and or negatives to bring into the digital age, I heartily recommend the Nikon Super Coolscan 8000ED. Firewire equipped, it is designed to work easily with the current line of graphics capable computers. Its bundled software has worked well for me (using a MAC with OSX and Firewire) and features three special capabilities. (1) Digital ICE3 will gently remove scratches and dust saving you hours of retouching (it doesn't work well with Kodachrome and black and white silver based emulsions). (2) ROC will restore colors to faded slides. It really works! (3) GEM gives you the ability to affect grain appearance. For the highest resolution imaging (4000DPI) the process takes some time. You also need to make sure that you have a fairly up to date computer. Some serious computing is going on here and with file sizes in the hundreds of Megabytes, you can't run this with your TRS-80. I run the Nikon Scan 3 software separately from PhotoShop 7 so that I can run one while working with the other. Otherwise while it's scanning, it will lock up your PS from use. It comes with a myriad of trays which work generally quite well but it cannot handle stack loaders. This is strictly a one strip at a time scanner. After all, these are some serious file sizes. While expensive, the 8000ED is approaching the quality of a drum scanner without the mess and the expense. For most work this is truly going to deliver.

This little Xerox Phaser 3400 Is faster and prints much better then any of the 4000 series HP printers currently on the market. As an HP owner and now a Xerox Phaser 3400 owner i can say the Xerox performs faster and with better quality then the HP's and at a much lower price.

This memory is upgrade will allow you run everything so much faster on your PC. When you make this upgrade, you never have to worry about running out of RAM again. You can run several full programs at once and never have a problem. Definitely a must buy!

After recently purchasing my blueberry iMac, I was a bit discouraged with its speed and consistency. I was suggested to upgrade with PNY memory, and it was an extremely wise decision. It improved the performance of my system as a whole. My computer, as told it would be, was faster, and I felt I was open to a lot more advantages on my iMac. The internet speed also improved, and accessing web pages was a lot easier. A great purchase for an iMac user.

This is an excellent printer, you won't be disappointed. I run this on a Linux network, without trouble. The configuration tool runs under Windows, so you'll need to have a Windows machine handy to run it.