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Eight new 24" Monitors to purchase

fjmeat

fjmeat

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I'm in charge of purchasing eight brand new 24" LCD or LED monitors for my office. Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions on what to steer away from when making my purchase?
 
personally id get LED's as they have a thinner platform, draw less power, and produce less heat.

I also dont see any problems with running TN's at an office environment unless ur into photo editting.

Its not like you need to see your blue letters in perfect blue on a excel spreadsheet or word document.

Personally i love dell monitors, however they arent the cheapest, but that is my personal opinion...
i would also like to say, the usb hub's which are built into some monitors are very useful in the office enviorment as well.

However that can also be addressed with using a usb hub... but having it built onto the side of the monitor like dell's are very useful at the office.
 
They're for a CPA firm, so we do stare at excel spreadsheets most of the day. Thanks for the tips. I'll plan on doing my search and price comparisons over the weekend.
 
Do you have a budget for all 8?

I think sometimes you can get better deals on big business purchases like this from places like Dell by calling and talking to a rep.

Anyway, for productivity stuff, I'd shoot for 16:10 aspect ratio if possible.

Here's a newegg link to a bunch of 1920x1200 IPS panels.

You could try shopping them around. The dell u2412m is listed on newegg at $320, but it's usually quite a bit cheaper on amazon. I'd try shopping around a bunch of these.
 
Being a person who codes, I hate TN for it's viewing angles. I have 2 monitors in portrait mode, and TNs won't do that well.

16:10 is WAY more useful at work. At home I have a 16:9.
 
I'd get a recent Dell. There are many more great options for home use, but Dell and HP primarily make business monitors, and while not every one is great, they get them right more often than not (though they're often not half bad gaming monitors, sometimes!). I can't speak for HPs from the last 1-2 years, though.

The U2413 (1200, $300+) and P2414H (1080, $200+) are pretty nice, IMO.
(edit: the U2414H, that I erroneously put up there, thinking of 14Hs, should just be a P2414H with a sleeker bezel and USB 3.0)

- No PWM flickering.
- Decent LEDs used for backlighting.
- light AG coating.
- the new LG panels don't have an obvious glow or screen door look (I used to prefer TN, even with all its drawbacks, but these AH-IPS panels have me 100% converted).
- "Text" preset, that's a dark version of the default settings. So, you can get 2 or 3 monitors looking the same, yet not all bright like out of the box, without having to fuss with the brightness and contrast to get them looking alike.
 
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For spreadsheet use, I'd say 16:10 aspect ratio monitor. DO NOT get a 1080P monitor. I think a cheaper TN panel is fine for spreadsheet use.

BH has the ASUS VS24AH-P for about $230 shipped.

Provantage has the Dell 2412M for about $290 shipped.
 
akugami said:
For spreadsheet use, I'd say 16:10 aspect ratio monitor. DO NOT get a 1080P monitor. I think a cheaper TN panel is fine for spreadsheet use.
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I agree with your recommendation, however, the DO NOT GET A 1080p MONITOR can be misinterpreted. Both of your recommendations exceed 1080p. I think you mean do not downgrade to 1080p.
 
corkyg said:
I agree with your recommendation, however, the DO NOT GET A 1080p MONITOR can be misinterpreted. Both of your recommendations exceed 1080p. I think you mean do not downgrade to 1080p.
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Absolutely. Getting a 1080P monitor is a downgrade for spreadsheet work. That's why my two recommendations were 1920x1200. For general office use, a 1080P monitor is fine, but for spreadsheets, vertical space is just as important as horizontal space. That extra 120 pixels on a 1920x1200 monitor doesn't seem like much until you got a large spreadsheet open. I'd say get 27" 2560x1440 monitors but that's probably out of budget.
 
Right on - and a 1920x1200 24-in ISP monitor is 1080p capable. Go for the win! 🙂
 
At $188 per, I don't know of much in the way of 1920x1200 options. Outside of sales, I couldn't find any. Plenty of decent 22-24" 1080P monitors are within that budget, though (1080P is many times more popular, so has volume going for it). An E2314H would work, I think, but be 1080P, instead.
 
Cerb said:
At $188 per, I don't know of much in the way of 1920x1200 options. Outside of sales, I couldn't find any. Plenty of decent 22-24" 1080P monitors are within that budget, though (1080P is many times more popular, so has volume going for it). An E2314H would work, I think, but be 1080P, instead.
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I think buying 1080p monitors is just plain silly for actual serious office work.

Sure, 1080p might work for a secretary or some manager.........but someone actually viewing documents on a hourly basis? Nah, they'll hands-down want the extra 120 pixels. That's quite a few lines in word/excel/access.
 
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Rinaun said:
I think buying 1080p monitors is just plain silly for actual serious office work.
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1080P is plain silly for anything except reducing costs, consuming media, and playing console ports with poor support for 16:10. I don't think you even need to set the bar as high as serious anything, really.

But, the OP has a budget of $1500/8. $2000/8 is about a minimum for 1920x1200, going by what Newegg's got listed right now, and that's not going to get you constant current backlighting with a good panel, I'm pretty sure.
 
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$1500 budget for 8 monitors is not unrealistic but in this case, you're just asking for trouble since the primary use is spreadsheets. It's not that you can't use 1080P monitors, but your number crunchers will be so much happier with 1920x1200 monitors. I look at my fair share of spreadsheets and even have to go digging in database tables when analyzing numbers and other data and the more pixels, the merrier.
 
akugami said:
$1500 budget for 8 monitors is not unrealistic but in this case, you're just asking for trouble since the primary use is spreadsheets. It's not that you can't use 1080P monitors, but your number crunchers will be so much happier with 1920x1200 monitors. I look at my fair share of spreadsheets and even have to go digging in database tables when analyzing numbers and other data and the more pixels, the merrier.
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Exactly. I think it's one of those two cookies later or one cookie now things. You can get the 1080p monitors for cheaper, but overall in the long run it's just going to be wiser to get the 1200's. Not to mention that anyone used to a 1200 will become incredibly annoyed at a 1080p. I cannot stand using them for school or office work.
 
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