Excerpt from a recent (February 01, 2005) article on flat panel displays for CAD use:
"Response time for flat-panel displays has long been on the slow side, making them less than ideal for video use or for applications such as 3D CAD and visualization, where rotating a model or showing a walkthrough may result in a visual stutter rather than a smoothly executed display. Response times for displays reviewed here range from 12ms through 25ms. A typical CRT monitor has a response time in the 1-3ms range. If users require wire frame rotations or the animation of complex shaded models, they'll definitely see the difference between the two technologies."
The rest of the article is here:
http://management.cadalyst.com/cadman/content/printContentPopup.jsp?id=147099
Even though flat panels are sexy, lightweight and consume less power, I'll be sticking with CRTs for the foreseeable future based on these performance numbers. Plus, for the price of one LCD you can buy two CRTs and have a dual display. If you ever use a dual display system (most modern video cards and operating systems support this) for any length of time, you'll not want to go back to just one monitor.
Just my opinion.
Paul Received on Tue Mar 01 20:06:00 2005
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