Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Lacie or Viewsonic 19" CRT monitor?

W

Wilson

macrumors regular
Original poster
I have a little dilemma here. What would you rather have, a Lacie Electron Blue (1st Generation) or a Viewsonic P95f+b? Both are 19" CRT flat screen monitors and are both new.

Which one would you rather have? A friend wants to change his Lacie for my Viewsonic.

Thanks.
 
Duff-Man says....they are both decent monitors...from my personal experience though - I had 2 viewsonic crt's before I got my 2 Samsung lcd's...both the Viewsonics required service in the first 2 years - luckily it was under warranty although I did have to pay shipping....but 2 for 2 does not seem like the greatest reliability record..perhaps it was just my luch though - when they were working they were nice monitors....oh yeah!
 
I have a LaCie Electron Blue II monitor, and while I've never used Viewsonic before, I think this monitor is great. You can read my opinion of it on Epinions.com.

I've had this monitor for over 2 years now with no problems other than the hood being too cheaply made and therefore sagging on the top edge. I would question why your friend want to trade his more expensive (I believe) monitor for yours.
 
I in the past have owned a viewsonic monitor. It was the monitor i had before my apple cinema and it was a work horse. No problrms what so ever. I say viewsonic if you arn't going with apple.
 
I havn't used either, but I'd like to recommend the old Apple Studio Display, you know the 17" CRT ones. I have one spanned to my powerbook and it is great, crystal clear picture and Mac style. Also the big spider tripod base allows stuff tp be stored beneith it. It's really a great monitor, I bought mine from craigslist 'like new' for $45. They also come in 19" for barely any more. I'd think you can find them for under $100 in very nice shape.
 
KevRC4130 said:
I havn't used either, but I'd like to recommend the old Apple Studio Display, you know the 17" CRT ones. I have one spanned to my powerbook and it is great, crystal clear picture and Mac style. Also the big spider tripod base allows stuff tp be stored beneith it. It's really a great monitor, I bought mine from craigslist 'like new' for $45. They also come in 19" for barely any more. I'd think you can find them for under $100 in very nice shape.
Click to expand...


Sorry, but for the sake of anyone looking at a new monitor, I must strongly disagree. I had one of these monitors, and 4 months out of it's original 12 month warranty, it crapped out. Thousands of people with these monitors had the same problem I did...it is a defect that Apple knows about. Check out the Apple support discussion boards to read some of the horror stories.

In fact, I think Apple may be fixing these monitors for free (to an extent), since the problem got so bad. My guess would be about one in every two monitors had a failure after one year of use.
 
Ditto Peyote's comments. Our Apple crt clunked out after great care and limited use. Not worth the cost of shipping it back and hoping for a free fix.
 
I need to agree with the poster above in regards to why your friend would want to trade. I have used my Viewsonic for over a year now and did have to send it back twice. Under warranty, the second time was b/c they didn't fix it properly the first time. The customer service was good and no complaints there. Locally I see the Lacie monitors being sold at the mac stores. Viewsonic is popular in the PC stores here. Personally, I would go LCD after saving the bucks.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back