[clug] Monitors that swivel

[Alex Satrapa]

On 05/06/2009, at 12:04 , David Tulloh wrote:

> The best way to understand what happens would be to take a laptop or  
> screen and just rotate it 90 degrees.  Then move around a little bit  
> and see for yourself.

And then to truly blow your mind, try it with two or three different  
brands of laptop or monitor and see that some screens (eg: most Macs,  
EIZO Flexscan) have huge vertical and horizonal viewing angles, while  
others (eg: HP, Acer) are clearly built to the price end of the scale.

Tipping a 24" iMac on its side will not give you colour defects,  
you'll just get vignetting (the brightness falls off towards what are  
now the "left" and "right"). Though at close to $3k for an iMac or  
EIZO Flexscan, the viewing angle probably comes at a much higher  
premium than most people are prepared to pay.

Ah, the good old days of the RADIUS Pivot monitor...

Alex

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