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Top 10 Monitors

Modest price cuts for sub-$600 monitors from Iiyama, Mitsubishi, and Televideo shuffle rankings on the chart.

  

CLR VisionPro 17plus


SUMMARY



PRO: Inexpensive, crisp text.
CON: Lackluster colors, clunky on-screen controls.
$463; 15.5-inch viewable area, .26mm dot pitch, up to 120 Hz refresh rate at 1024 by 768 resolution, Plug and Play ready, TCO'95 compliant, three-year warranty, 12-hour weekday toll-free support.

CompuLink Research
800/611-1555
www.clrusa.com

If you spend your workday poring over business documents such as letters created in Word or Excel spreadsheets, the nicely priced CLR Vision Pro 17plus can handle the workload, right down to smaller fonts. Of the new monitors we reviewed this month, it did the second-best job of displaying text. But if your work also involves intensive graphics, the VisionPro 17plus isn't your best bet. Colors tended to be faded and washed-out. The flesh tones in our test photo of marathon runners looked unnatural and bland. The VisionPro offers the full range of on-screen controls typical of most 17-inch monitors; however, its controls are clunky to use. Adjustments--even simple ones like brightness and contrast--don't execute smoothly.

Note: This review was updated in July 1998.

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