| ISMagazine.com | Hardware Innovations |
August, 1999 |
"The Radius Artica Display marks our continuing commitment to the Macintosh community," said Michael Kuehn, chief executive officer at miro displays inc. The high-style flat-panel monitor offers Mac users a familiar set of translucent blue and white colors instead of the traditional opaque plastics. "Our customers are very conscious of quality, for both color performance and design on the desktop. The new Radius Artica Display continues that distinguished tradition of excellence."
Based on SGI's award-winning digital flat-panel technology, the Radius Artica Display offers state-of-the-art 1,600-by-1,024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color. It provides customers with a big-picture view to even the largest spreadsheet, marketing presentation or digital image. This capability gives executives a clear view of even the smallest type on the screen and lets
professional content creators take advantage of a palette of 16.7 million colors for their images.
In addition to providing customers the finest color, brightness, contrast and pixel performance, the Radius Artica Display improves productivity for all work environments. With its 16-by-10 aspect ratio, the screen can show two pages, or even two applications, side by side. Unlike a standard two-page CRT display, the flat-panel provides a space-saving, graceful footprint on the desk. Weighing only 16 pounds, it is also easily transportable.
"The Radius Artica Display is superb for images," said Karl Lang, miro displays' vice president of color technology. "With a factory-calibrated tonal response of gamma 1.8, this monitor most closely matches the tonal response of human vision, which lets this product display color images more accurately with less quantization error than any other LCD screen on the market. And it looks way cool next to my blue G3."
While the Radius Artica Display's impressive graphics performance is perfect for content-creation professionals building Web sites, authoring color marketing materials and editing in a digital video environment, its vision-friendly resolution for fine text appeals to professional programmers and executives in the business world.
The Radius Artica Display for Macintosh ships with a Formac Electronics Inc. ProFormance(TM) 3 graphics accelerator card with an OpenLDI digital interface. The card comes with a 3Dlabs Permedia3(TM) processor and 16 Mbytes of SGRAM. Supporting standard PCI slots as well as the 66-MHz interface in the current PowerMac G3 models, the card boosts performance for QuickDraw 2D and 3D graphics, and QuickTime. According to Formac, the ProFormance 3's multimedia performance delivers a fill rate of 250 Mtexels per second with dual bilinear mip-mapped textures.
The display has an estimated street price of about $2,899 and is available through resellers of Radius products.
Meanwhile, miro displays today released the Radius Artica Display for Windows, announced here at PC Expo late last month. Windows customers can choose between AGP or PCI versions of the Number Nine Revolution(R) IV-FP graphics accelerator card. The Radius Artica Display for Windows has an estimated street price of about $2,799.