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Actually, SGI released he first affordable, decent flatscreen monitors in 2001 or so (the 1700sw TN monitors that Apple rebranded with translucent cases at the
by tannhaeuser 5y ago
Actually, SGI released he first affordable, decent flatscreen monitors in 2001 or so (the 1700sw TN monitors that Apple rebranded with translucent cases at the time).
- giantrobot 5y agoMonitors that required a special video card to use with a PC. At least the 1600sw did. IIRC it came with a Revolution9 card or some such.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoYou could order an external DVI-to-LVDS converter (or whatever the native connector/signalling was) later when it became clear DVI was set to become the standard.
- giantrobot 5y agoIt was several years after the 1600sw came out that I had a machine with DVI. I've still never seen one in person. The industrial design looked really nice but I have no idea if the panel quality was decent.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoThe TN panel, especially the black level, was crap compared to modern IPS let alone OLED LCDs, but was decent enough that SGI guaranteed a reference color garmut, with compensation algorithms over the panel's lifetime. I bought mine towards the end of the product's lifecycle at a good price with converter included, and ran it with high-end (at the time) nvidia cards on Linux without problem.
- giantrobot 5y agoI'm glad to hear the panels were nice or at least not the same crap as early VGA panels. My first desktop LCD panel was a G5 iMac. I had a big Trinitron monitor for a long time and lusted after a 1600sw.
- pxmpxm 5y agoHa 1600SW! As a minor around that time I bought out the remainder of the 1600SW inventory that SGI was clearing out for ~$550 a piece ... and proceeded to make more money reselling them that I've made my entire life before that, internships included. To this day I love the on-brand SGI industrial design aesthetic.