To replace my 30" behemoth, I have now purchased this little badger:

BTW (Hawke) NOTE MY USE OF PICKS AND SPECKS

Picks:




Specks:

• Viewable Area: 22” Widescreen (1680x1050 Resolution)
• Interface: Analog / Digital
• Response Time: 5ms
• 16.7M Colours
• Contrast Ratio: 20,000:1
• Viewing Angle (H/V): 170°/ 160°
• Brightness: 300cd/m2
• 3 Years On-Site Warranty with Samsung

Cost:

Including delivery (on 05-Jan-2009) about £170. Note: I received £550 for the 30" monitor and will be receiving £300 for the HD 4870 X2 graphics card so this has made me almost £700. Which is nice.

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Looks pretty sweet!

Nice monitor you cheeky git ;P

Yeh Dont Know Why You Would Need Any Bigger Tbh. 22" Is Just Right. Unless You Watch Films Then Just Get A Big-Incher.

big incher ya sure your thinking about moniters chicken

No, I Was Dreaming About You...

you should take that gay test

On topic please.

Why did you replace your beast monitor?

He wanted the monies back. There's a thread about downgrades somewhere that explains it.

but youwouldnt getmuch back would you?

Surprisingly I got quite a lot back
+ I feel better for having tried it... It's a permanent e-peen enhancement for me.

You're £700 better off, aren't you?

Heh, but you e-peen just halved in size due to the getting rid of that stuff!

The main thing is that I knew what it felt like to have a huge e-peen. It was good.
But I think that's about it for me now.
I used to be a hardcore porn star in e-peen land, now mine is only slightly larger than yours, Skillers. (the e-peen)

Steady on people, steady on...

MONITORS ARE SO EXCITING!

Yeah... like Skillers said on my FB... Bets on how long it will take for me to buy a huge replacement monitor when I get fed up of 1680x1050...

Heh, I'm getting a new monitor tomorrow, power pack in this one is overheating. Dell E228WFP (have to get it from PCWorld, no time for delivery).

Looks like a good monitor! I hope the image quality is OK, it's just that I've heard bad things about the 2209WFP that replaced the 2208WFP recently. The official dell.co.uk website has like a 1.5 out of 5 star average customer rating.

Well my current monitor is 4 years old, so I doubt it will be particulary bad in comparison with the improvement in tech. And since I've been really pleased with this monitor...

I have just received my replacement monitor at work and I am using it right now.

The image quality is really good! Although I have nearly burned my eyes out now... it's quite bright out of the box!

Putting the monitor on the base stand was quite difficult also, but this seems to be a trend with Samsung monitors (it was a problem with my last one, too). Dell monitors are quite possibly the easiest to put together.

I have watched a bit of a DVD and it all seemed well. No dead pixels. Nothing to complain about, really.

Lets see some pics of it on your desk then.

Here you go:

replacement moniter still bigger than my current one.........

I agree there. It simply slotted onto the stand, it was great.

Shame the actually monitor isn't too good. Washy colours and a bit of backlight bleed. I've toned the brightness down a bit now, so the bleed is mostly gone. Colours still need improving, but I can probably tweak them. Response is good and no dead pixels, and I like the minimalist design (it's all screen, what a monitor should be, I'm a fan of practicality).

This 22 incher probably has the most uniform colours I have ever seen in a monitor.

It's very shiny and it brings up fingerprints on the bezel. The stand is awkward. But the image quality from the actual screen is not half bad. Shame it looks more like a TV. I feel quite noob-ish. But I do like the image quality... that is all.

Edit: I have just this moment visited a couple of online monitor calibration sites with some test images. This monitor appears to be calibrated already, with very accurate colour representation.

What happened to this monitor? I can't even remember what I did with it lol.