Good news: After someone (Mr. Bill?) mentioned that they were happy with
their 17" Dell 1704FPT LCD monitor, I placed an order last week for work.
It was dirt cheap due to all the discountssomething like $200 shipped.
Came in yesterday, and I finally got around to opening ithey, this is a
bigger box than I'm used to seeingwhy does it have "1905FP" printed on
it? Packing list shows 1704, but they sent me the 1905 19" panel (!)
instead. Hopefully, it's a free upgrade.
Bad news: I've got a low-end Dell 17" panel at work, and the 1704 was
intended to sit next to it in a dual head config (replacing my 17" Sony
CRT). Between 'more pixels, not bigger pixels' and a desire to halfway
match the other panel, I'm not sure what to do. If only it would do
1600x1200 native
Moral of the storyif you want a 1905, now might be a good time to order
a 1704 instead. They're still showing 2-3 weeks out on the 1704, so I
suspect that they're shipping the 1905 rather than make people wait it out
for the 1704.

Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:48PM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
Good news: After someone (Mr. Bill?) mentioned that they were happy with
their 17" Dell 1704FPT LCD monitor, I placed an order last week for work.

I've actually got a 1701, but the '04 is just the current model. I've
also got an E171FP (2.something years old), and just purchased two current
E173FPs in the past 2 months, and am very happy with all of them (no dead
pixels whatsoever).

(no, I'm not made of money - I have a single E173FP here at home because
they were on sale for $223. Everything else is at work Anybody want
to take up a collection to buy me an Ultra20? *grin*)

Bill

Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:09:57PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
Anybody want
to take up a collection to buy me an Ultra20? *grin*)
You'll just have to sell off your old, obsolete (ultra)SPARC junk. :-)
(ducking)
Geoff.

Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:16:54AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
You'll just have to sell off your old, obsolete (ultra)SPARC junk. :-)
(ducking)

Shawn already called shotgun on the E420R when/if I decide to retire it. 8-)

It *would* be nice to have SunHELP on a machine with a current Sun service
contract, but I've not worked with Solaris x86/64 enough to decide if I
want to change platforms. Remote serial is *so* nice, although this
Simple-Link KVM/IP is pretty spiffy too.

Bill

Hi:

Dumb question can you get one of these Dell monitors to work on a sun
box?

John

Scott Newell wrote:

Good news: After someone (Mr. Bill?) mentioned that they were happy with
their 17" Dell 1704FPT LCD monitor, I placed an order last week for work.
It was dirt cheap due to all the discountssomething like $200 shipped.
Came in yesterday, and I finally got around to opening ithey, this is a
bigger box than I'm used to seeingwhy does it have "1905FP" printed on
it? Packing list shows 1704, but they sent me the 1905 19" panel (!)
instead. Hopefully, it's a free upgrade.

Bad news: I've got a low-end Dell 17" panel at work, and the 1704 was
intended to sit next to it in a dual head config (replacing my 17" Sony
CRT). Between 'more pixels, not bigger pixels' and a desire to halfway
match the other panel, I'm not sure what to do. If only it would do
1600x1200 native

Moral of the storyif you want a 1905, now might be a good time to order
a 1704 instead. They're still showing 2-3 weeks out on the 1704, so I
suspect that they're shipping the 1905 rather than make people wait it out
for the 1704.

Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:24:13PM -0700, John Williams wrote:
Hi:
Dumb question can you get one of these Dell monitors to work on a sun
box?
John
I've got the E171FP working fine on my Ultra 60, using a 13W3 to HD15
converter on the back of the Expert3D card.
Bill