Documents specified above DO NOT include the graphical elements, design, or layout of this Web site. You can contact the webmaster at . Fifteen-inch CRT monitors can be heavy and awkward to handle, but at a little more than 13 pounds, the SynchMaster was easy to carry from the foyer up two flights to my office. If you have room, installing the SynchMaster 570pPlus as a second monitor using Windows 98 may be an interesting option.
Setup is easy.
After connecting power, video, and sound cables, both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 identified the monitor and allowed me to put it to work. For even better viewing and control, I recommend installing the Pivot drivers. Anyone using desktop publishing, word-processing, database, or spreadsheet software will want to use the monitor in portrait mode. Yet, under Windows 2000, I couldn't get the Pivot software to work in vertical mode, although it worked perfectly in landscape mode. The SynchMaster 570pPlus has a .297mm dot pitch and a refresh rate of 85Hz.