Great bargain with some cons
Written: Jan 22 '04
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Pros: DVI, rotating panel, USB port, bargain price, oh... size
Cons: Can't lower to table, greenish tint, difficult to change brightness, ghosting, not best colors
The Bottom Line: If you don't want to spend much and want feature packed monitor for primary office use and occasional gaming than this is for you. Serious gamers check somewhere else.
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| akpch's Full Review: Dell UltraSharp 1901FP 19-inch Flat Panel Monitor ... |
I will not be writing long description here. just a few words on experience with the device.
Got it as replacement for my 3-and-change years old 17" viewsonic. Wow! 17" LCD considered to be too small for resolutions 1280x1024 so got this one...
Overall good monitor, obviously sharper than CRT. Well packaged with features at it's price it was a bargain. My favorite features: DVI and rotating panel (got GForce 4 in order to work with those features). Don't use USB ports on monitor, will probably start when my compact 128 MB MP3 player arrives. Works well for relatively slow games (American Army and so), browsing the internet and movies. DVI port gives significantly better picture (this could be on cons side for analog input). Rotating panel is quite useful for programming and reading PDFs.
On the dark side the following:
1. Little bit dark stripe on left side with certain colors (grey shows with little green tint in that side)
2. Can not lower arm all way toward the table (4" hole horizontal, 3" vertical), like low positioned monitors
3. Some ghosting on fast games (Unreal) and some scenes in movies - not that bad but little annoying
4. Colors somewhat washed out compared to my old TTF laptop screen
5. Color tint (grey becomes greenish) changes at probably 20-30 degrees from straight view - little bit worse than viewsonics and definitely worse than CRT.
6. Quite difficult to change brightness in DVI mode and contrast in analog... takes 5 clicks on two buttons before you are able to do so.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 579
Operating System: Windows
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