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Best 17-19" LCD

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rosco6912

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I'm in the market to pickup a new LCD, however I have quite a few requirements.

Having recently become the proud owner of a new 15" G4 PowerBook, the display quality has impressed me incredibly. I would like to purchase an LCD to replace my dieing 21" Trinitron monitor. I want one that is 1280x1024 Native, b/c I want to be able to game in the native resolution without worrying about graphics issues (i fear a 1024x768 native monitor would be too small). I am also only interested in an LCD that has the quality of a high-end Dell or Apple laptop, I'm not interested in a cheap-of-the-week viewsonic (not that all of their products are cheap 😛), as I've had one of them (and a Planar), and the display would eventually hurt my eyes after 4+ hours of viewing (gaming and non) -- i would assume it has something to do w/ the quality, as I've never had a problem with my powerbook hurting my eyes. DVI preferred, not 100% necessary
review:
1) 1280 x 1024 native
2) hi quality (see the comment about cheaper LCDs hurting eyes after 4+ hours of use)
3) able to handle games
4) not state of the art - i want to stay under 700 (hopefully under 450)
5) prefer 17-19"
6) DVI preferred

if any of you have any recommendations i would welcome them =)
 
I am very happy with my Samsung 192t. Though if I were buying another 19" now I would go for the more current 193p.

Edit = Oops, the 193p might not conform to your budget to well. The 192t is under $700 though (granted, not by much).
 
I currently use a Samsung 191T... would buy a 193T if I were getting a new one. I got mine for about $630 from newegg last summer. The 193T series just came out and run around $700 IIRC (review here at anandtech). They are very sweet monitors, and it is very hard to detect any ghosting what so ever. I play UT2004 quite a bit and it looks awesome on this display.
 
i've read around and the 2001fp looks pretty sweet if it could be had for 750+tax. my only concern would be its native resolution being 1600x1200, wouldn't lower resolution gaming looks blurry?
 
MaximumPC recently compared a number of LCDs, and they commented that the Dell 2001FP is awesome at 1600 x 1200, and practically as good at 1280 x 1024. 🙂
 
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