<CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (02/12/91)
A friend is looking for people's experiences with the Mobius monitor and accelerator/adaptor card. He's got the glossies from the company, but would like to hear any stories (good/bad) before plunking down the cash. Anyone used one of these things? Thank you. Dave Charlesworth CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (bitnet)
robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) (02/12/91)
In article <91042.212215CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> CHARLESW@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes: > > A friend is looking for people's experiences with the Mobius monitor and >accelerator/adaptor card. I have been using a Mobius FPD and 16mhz accelerator, which came as a package for my SE. I have been happy with the products. Things that Mobius does right: 1) When they sell the product, instead of cautioning you to have the combination video card/accelerator installed by a technician, they are happy to have you install it yourself and still give you a full year warrantee. The card is just a bit more complex to install than SIMMS in an SE. 2) The monitor they sent me had a power-supply problem. It took just two phone calls to convince Mobius that this was the problem, and they always answered the phone immediately, politely, and helpfully. Their solution was to UPS me a replacement monitor right away to try. That solved the problem - I just packed the old monitor in the box that came with the replacement monitor and THEY sent UPS to pick it up. All this cheerfully, and at no cost to me. 3) I used a Radius for a year previously. The Mobius was at least as reliable and the display has been clear, stable, and undistorted since I bought it. The only thing the Radius had that the Mobius lacked was an extra virtual half-page for instant scrolling, but many people were I worked did not like this Radius feature because it made them dizzy scrolling into the virtual page. 4) The acceleration provided with the Mobius is very substantial. It cuts down my CPU intensive operations, like previewing an Adobe Illustrator image, to about 65% of the unaccelerated speed. The windowing in the Finder is very noticeably faster, which is essential on a bigger screen. The only signicant problem I have had with the Accelerator is that sounds are somewhat fuzzy. Fortunately, you can turn off the accelerator any time from the Control Panel to bring back sound quality, without having to reboot (unlike the Radius product I had). Also my score in Crystal Quest went way down with the accelerator on - those beasts start moving awfully fast. . . -- * Rob Weinberg, graphics & publishing ***** Does a falling tree make a sound * * {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!robertw ***** if 1: no one hears it * * => Ask me about me. ***** BUT 2: it is not known that * * => Ask Informix about Informix. ***** no one hears it? *