philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (12/15/90)
To add to the nice summary posted by Kathy Strong, here's my review of the Mirror PixelView I: I installed mine on a IIcx; the SE version costs the same. I ordered direct from Mirror. Delivery was prompt (2nd day air - it arrived when they said it would). The supplied software includes a screen saver, pop-up menus, screen copy, enlarged menu bar and enlarged cursor. The latter 2 features don't seem exceptionally useful to me (included because the opposition have them?). The pop-up menus can either be invoked via a configurable keystroke plus mouse click, or a configurable mouse movement. Screen quality is good (but see negative points below); focus could be slightly sharper, but it is almost up to the standard of an Apple screen. Linearity is better than for my Apple Portrait Display; the menu bar doesn't quite look perfectly straight, but it doesn't have the annoying dips at either end that my Apple display has. Now some negative points. I may need to take my machine out of the country, so conversion to 220 volts is important to me. The Mirror power supply is not the automatically switching kind Apple uses; you have to set a switch manually. While this is still useful, I prefer not to leave these things to chance. More seriously, the surface of the screen is very distinctly curved. I hardly noticed this after a few minutes, but it may put you off. Option-shift-3 allows you to select any rectangular area of the screen, and place it in the clipboard. This works really well -- sometimes. The clipboard updating doesn't always seem to happen (appears to be worse in MultiFinder). Not a serious problem, since the ordinary command-shift-3 screen capture still works. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu