|
After all, many of us spend hours each day staring at a monitor, so it better be decent; and, for its cost, this display is excellent: colors are crisp, contrast is great, standard resolution is nice (1680 x 1050), and we're given both both digital and analog inputs. It's strange.(2) The backlight bleeds through around the edges when the screen is black. While adjusting it, I worry that I'll break it. I have been using this monitor for about two months now, and I'm impressed. Overall, this is a great monitor, and you're hard-pressed to find more bang for your buck in the 22" widescreen category. I wouldn't even mention this, except that this is the first monitor I have ever owned that does this. This is a great find.
The monitor also provides you with complete control over color temperature, contrast, and brightness, and a handy little auto-adjust/quick-switch feature that lets you swap settings on the fly (if, for example, you go from reading a book online to playing a video game). And it doesn't give you much flexibility when positioning it. Of course, this is a value monitor so we can't expect Apple's aluminum housing here, but this monitor wiggles like Galloping Gertie if you bump it. There are no fancy controls here, but I haven't needed any.I only have three complaints, and none of these are deal-breakers: (1) The monitor is very slow to wake up. But you won't notice this when the display is lit up, so don't worry about it unless you're a perfectionist.(3) The housing is cheap and unstable.
I have fairly high standards when it comes to displays, so I was hesitant to purchase a monitor that may cut corners to trim the price by a few dollars. This is mostly an aesthetic flaw, and I don't believe it affects the quality of the picture, but seeing a strange halo around your screen definitely makes it look cheap. That may not sound like a long time, but if you're used to your monitor waking up immediately, it can be really annoying. I've experienced no blurring and no defects of any kind. In both Windows and Ubuntu, when you move the mouse or press a key to wake it up, you'll have to wait about 5 seconds before it turns itself on.
It is a two year old board and is not very high end. If it was more adjustable I would give it 5 stars. You can only tilt it vertically.The only problem I had, and I totally own this since I should have checked, is that my Asus motherboard does not support the best aspect ratio for this monitor. I purchased this as replacement for my 20" boat anchor CRT at work. I plan to pick up an inexpensive graphics card to solve the problem and keep the monitor. No dead pixels. The color is great. The price was very reasonable compared to other, similar models.
However I was not able to get the optimum resolution of 1680x1050 on DVI with my Matrox G550 VGA with 32 MB but it works fine on VGA at the same resolution.It came without any dead pixels has excellent colour balance, I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in a 22" at a budget price. This monitor was purchased as an upgrade for my 17" CRT and I'm totally happy with my decision. For the price it has good features and I was able to fix it to my fairly old system with minimum hassle.
But still, it's very nice, very cheap and very useful. when I extended my Sony Vaio into this Monitor, you could clearly see the difference in resolution, brightness, etc. Last problem: you can't turn it, the base is fixed. No dead pixels so far. But one kind of notices that is not a high-quality monitor.
Only downside is the fixed base, so you'd better put it high enough to comfortably look at. I haven't used the monitor with any first-person shooter games, but it's plenty fast enough for watching video, even sports, so I imagine it would do fine. This is a nice, cheap monitor that competes in picture quality with much more expensive ones. It was a nice touch to include both DVI and VGA cables so that it's easy to use the monitor with any computer.
|
