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My CRT was getting oooooold, I looked around for a bigger replacement, but CRT is dead (I had to face the facts) and I wanted something bigger then 21", my options were pretty much all LCD's, I really wanted 4:3 but that wasn't going to happen. So I picked up a Gateway 24" LCD.
pros
big screen, even though it's wide screen I am liking it. Had a DVD in a 4:3 window on the left side and Photoshop 7 basically full screen on the right side - 1920x1200 is NICE
bright - was too bright out of the box, even with it down my eyes are still adjusting.
good color reproduction - don't think it touches my old 19" Diamontron, but for LCD I am very impressed. I'm still adjusting to the oversharpness (if that's what it is...) where some images show too much detail and look bad. Haven't really calibrated it yet, so probably has room for improvement.
screen rorates 90 degrees - for me this is probably much more a cool thing than something I will actually use. But I tried it out, my Winamp VIZ looks pretty nice in portrait mode
touch sensitive menus that only appear when I touch them - MUCH nicer then the ones on a Hyuandi LCD I had (for about 3 days)
USB ports are sweet, can pop my flash drive in the side in no time - I'm lazy and bending over to plug it in the bottom of my case was a hassle.
noticed no ghosting, people have complained about ghosting around the fringe in games, only think I've played was HL2, seemed good. Couldn't push native resolution with my X800 256 though.
back light bleeding seems pretty minimal, no dead pixels, blacks are pretty bleh compared what I'm use to, but not really bad.
supports 1:1, haven't actually tested this yet, but it's a big +, going go to out and buy an Xbox 360 later today and see how it looks on this puppy.
cons:
price - I understand it was cheaper than both the Dell & BenQ, but $679 + tax hurt a lot.
needs too much power to push new games in 1920x1200, I have an AGP system so I'll probably end up dropping a few bucks on PCI-E and a better video card. I don't even want to think about the system I'll need to push Crysis @ 1920x1200 *shudder*
I installed EZTune that came with it, and it royally fvked up my video card drivers, took me 30 minutes to fix it, still not sure how or why, but I got it working.
Had it 3 days, haven't had a chance to test the other inputs yet, hopefully Xbox 360 will look nice (not sure how the 16:10 will effect things, even with 1:1)
I messed with the 24" Dell for a few moments at the Dell Kiosk at my mall, was nice, but I'm not sold on it being "much better" than the Gateway like so many people are saying. I haven't seen the BenQ so I can't comment on it. I can say I'm not noticing any of the problems like buzzing PSU, trailing with yellow, blacks smearing. The IQ isn't up to snuff next to the CRT's I've used, but this is one damn sweet LCD for sure.
pros
big screen, even though it's wide screen I am liking it. Had a DVD in a 4:3 window on the left side and Photoshop 7 basically full screen on the right side - 1920x1200 is NICE
bright - was too bright out of the box, even with it down my eyes are still adjusting.
good color reproduction - don't think it touches my old 19" Diamontron, but for LCD I am very impressed. I'm still adjusting to the oversharpness (if that's what it is...) where some images show too much detail and look bad. Haven't really calibrated it yet, so probably has room for improvement.
screen rorates 90 degrees - for me this is probably much more a cool thing than something I will actually use. But I tried it out, my Winamp VIZ looks pretty nice in portrait mode
touch sensitive menus that only appear when I touch them - MUCH nicer then the ones on a Hyuandi LCD I had (for about 3 days)
USB ports are sweet, can pop my flash drive in the side in no time - I'm lazy and bending over to plug it in the bottom of my case was a hassle.
noticed no ghosting, people have complained about ghosting around the fringe in games, only think I've played was HL2, seemed good. Couldn't push native resolution with my X800 256 though.
back light bleeding seems pretty minimal, no dead pixels, blacks are pretty bleh compared what I'm use to, but not really bad.
supports 1:1, haven't actually tested this yet, but it's a big +, going go to out and buy an Xbox 360 later today and see how it looks on this puppy.
cons:
price - I understand it was cheaper than both the Dell & BenQ, but $679 + tax hurt a lot.
needs too much power to push new games in 1920x1200, I have an AGP system so I'll probably end up dropping a few bucks on PCI-E and a better video card. I don't even want to think about the system I'll need to push Crysis @ 1920x1200 *shudder*
I installed EZTune that came with it, and it royally fvked up my video card drivers, took me 30 minutes to fix it, still not sure how or why, but I got it working.
Had it 3 days, haven't had a chance to test the other inputs yet, hopefully Xbox 360 will look nice (not sure how the 16:10 will effect things, even with 1:1)
I messed with the 24" Dell for a few moments at the Dell Kiosk at my mall, was nice, but I'm not sold on it being "much better" than the Gateway like so many people are saying. I haven't seen the BenQ so I can't comment on it. I can say I'm not noticing any of the problems like buzzing PSU, trailing with yellow, blacks smearing. The IQ isn't up to snuff next to the CRT's I've used, but this is one damn sweet LCD for sure.
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