Slightly OT: Old CRT displays vs. new LCD

[Doc Shipley]

Angel Martin Alganza wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:34:31PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
>  
>> However, when restricted to the price ranges I can afford, LCDs beat
>> CRTs all hollow.
> 
> And, what about power consumption?  Is it worth to change for it?  I
> use to have a couple of monitors powered on most of the time (they are
> not the main box, but they show some quotations and other data).  What
> monitors would you recommend?  (I'm interested in using as less power
> as possible over anything else, included image quality).

   My SGI GDM-5011's thermal output was rated at something like 800 
BTU/hr max, 550 BTU/hr typical.  The Dell 2007FP I run now is rated at 
256 max and 188 typical.  I don't have the power consumption specs 
available for the SGI tube, but just the thermal budget translates to a 
LOT of savings.

   Rated screen size, color-depth, and resolution are pretty close to 
identical, but the Dell is a better picture and the GDM-5011 didn't have 
S-video, composite, analog, and DVI inputs, or pic-in-pic screen.


	Doc