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Apple To Ditch CRTs For Flat Panel Monitors
News The Apple 17-inch cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor -- the last model available of this type -- is being retired as the company makes a transition to all liquid-crystal display (LCD), or flat-panel, monitors.
[May 4, 2001, 7:48]
NEC-Mitsubishi LCD Monitor Prices Cut By A Third
News Until recently LCD monitors came with such a high price tag -- compared to bulkier CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors -- that they were beyond the range of most home PC users. The price gap between CRT and LCD monitors gets narrower
[May 9, 2001, 6:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Known to us Anglo-Saxons as the CRT, it's been around for more than a hundred years -- not bad going for an electronic component. I won't cry too hard when my last CRT monitor goes away, though. Is this the beginning of the end for the Braun tube?
[July 31, 2001, 16:48]
Original IMac Goes The Way Of Flower Power
News Built around a 15-inch CRT (cathode-ray tube), the original iMac debuted in 1998 for $1,299, or about £830. However, on Tuesday, Apple removed the lone CRT-based iMac from Apple's main online store, and a source confirmed that Apple does not plan...
[March 19, 2003, 7:41]
Nuggets: Marvellous Mitsubishi Monitors
News This has an OSD (On Screen Display), a Shadowmask tube -- a mask that acts to block the electron beam from striking the wrong phosphors in a CRT -- to increase screen definition. Starting at the bottom, for those of you with far better things to do...
[March 20, 2000, 15:07]
Manufacturers Turn To High-spec Games PCs
News The machine, which includes a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, 512MB of 400MHz DDR memory, a 160GB Serial ATA hard drive, a DVD burner and a 19-inch CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor, will sell for $2,099 (£1319). The company is offering the 500S Gaming PC for $1...
[August 19, 2003, 11:55]
Shareholders Take Stock Of Apple
News He declined, but noted that the company has all but eliminated harmful CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors from its product line, with the eMac the only remaining Mac that comes with a CRT display. We might be sitting here next year with none," while...
[April 28, 2006, 11:20]
Dell Readies PC Recycling Programme
News In the United States, the focus has primarily been on CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors, which contain several pounds of lead, one of the elements considered to pose a serious health threat if improperly disposed of.
[May 17, 2002, 10:50]
What To Look For In A Desktop PC review
Reviews A traditional CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) monitor takes up more space but costs less than an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), or flat-panel, monitor of the same size. CRT or a 15in. An LCD is compact and consumes less energy than a CRT, but a CRT produces...
[January 21, 2003, 14:47]
Apple Confirms EMac Display Problem
News However, because it uses a flat-screen CRT, the eMac takes up roughly the same amount of space as the original iMac. The all-white eMac is an updated take on the original iMac, built around a 17-inch monitor as compared to the 15-inch cathode-ray...
[October 2, 2002, 7:34]
High-Resolution, Wide-Aspect, And Wide-Viewing Displays On Dell Portable Computers
White Papers This white paper discusses the advantages of high-resolution and wide-aspect LCDs, explains the concept of "native resolution," and compares the way that LCD and cathode ray tube (CRT) displays scale between different resolutions.
[October 28, 2003, 0:06]
IBM ThinkVision L200p review
Reviews CRT, the only conventional tube size really up to delivering UXGA in a satisfactory manner. CRT, and is pitched accordingly, with trading floors, CAD, scientific modelling and the more ambitious type of spreadsheet user in mind.
[June 9, 2003, 10:29]
Apple Apologises For Environmental Modesty
Blog Comment There’s one toxic substance that some companies still ship by the pound, and that’s the lead contained in their cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays. A note of comparison — Dell, Gateway, Hewlett Packard and Lenovo still ship CRT displays today.
[May 3, 2007, 14:48]
Apple Makes 54Mbps Standard On EMac
News The eMac, which is designed for the education market, is Apple's last computer built around a cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor. In March, Apple pulled the plug on the original iMac, the company's other computer built around a CRT.
[May 6, 2003, 16:01]
Flat-panel Monitors Edge Ahead
News Flat-panel monitors for desktop computers are expected to surpass traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors in revenue this year, a sea change for the display industry. Revenue from CRT, meanwhile, will come to $12.3bn, Gallo predicted.
[March 13, 2003, 9:19]
Apple Waves Goodbye To The CRT
News Apple launched a replacement for the eMac specifically aimed at the educational market on Wednesday, and also announced that it had ceased production of bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) displays and switched over to flat screens.
[July 6, 2006, 11:05]
IBM Warns More Monitors May Be Fire Hazards
News The computing giant issued the original recall last March, covering its G51 and G51t models of 15-inch CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors. IBM on Thursday expanded its recall of certain 15-inch monitors, saying hundreds of thousands more units have a...
[August 29, 2003, 9:30]
Nuggets: More Space, Less Cash
News It's a Flatter Squarer Tube (FST), dual-focus CRT monitor, using shadowmask technology aiming for more accurate colour rendition and clearer character formation. UK monitor stalwart iiyama wants you to ditch your pokey little 15-inch monitor and...
[January 5, 2000, 10:55]
At 60, 'Baby' Celebrates Birth Of Computing
News The output was, in fact, "read directly from the face of a CRT [cathode ray tube]", Waddington said. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life in a laboratory...
[June 20, 2008, 8:00]
Lenovo Trumps Apple In Green-tech Ranking
News We have also completely eliminated CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors, which contain lead, from our product line," the representative then said. Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has gone from being the least environmentally friendly technology company to...
[April 5, 2007, 9:22]
