monitor shopping

[Greg VN]

Yesterday my monitor started flickering a lot and today it is continueing and I have a feeling that it is soon to go out. I Know that this topic has been talked about a lot but the way things are constantly changing in the market place I thought I would check with our field of experts in the forum and see what suggestion you might have to look for a new monitor. There are a lot of choices out there.

 

Still using Mill 9.1 SP2 but I may move on to X in 2007.

 

Dell 4700 Dimension

Pentium ® 4 cpu 3.00 GHZ

Nvidia Quadro FX 1400

4GB of RAM

 

 

Thanks

[gavetta]

I think it's more about budget tahn anything. Are you looking to go flat screen (is that what you had before or a CRT)? If you go flat screen lcd, get something with a low response time. We're tied into Dell here so we had to go with them. I think the 20" lcd I have was around $380 but you can find other brands cheaper.HTH

[Greg VN]

I have a CRT ViewSonic A 90 right now. I would like to go to a LCD next time. It would be nice to get more space on my desk top and have a larger viewing area.

Thanks for the tip on the response time.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I have been using a Samsung Syncmaster 215TW for several months now and love it.

 

Here's a screen shot of my desktop to get a feel for how the widescreen allows you to reorganize the toolbars...

[cadcam]

Matt weres the Sillouht boundry button I don't see it.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I don't trust the Silhouette Boundary feature so I find other ways.

[Greg VN]

After looking at Best Buy, Sams, Target, & Office Depot and than looking on the web I decided to go back to Sams and purcahse a Samsung 225bw for $379. Sams was $20. less than Best Buy and what I found on the web was around the same prices. It is a lot different looking at this huge screen compared to my 19" Viewsonic CRT.

I have a problem with my computer regarding the installing the cd. The drawer will not open to insert the cd for installing the drivers. We have tryed pushing a paperclip into the hole and the lights flash but the drawer will not open. I went to the Samsung website and downloaded the driver so I'm past that part but I still need to solve the problem with the cd drawer.

Any suggestions?

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

Push harder on the paperclip ?

 

If it's just a cdrom you could replace it pretty cheap...

 

FYI... Applications with a lot of white were making me feel like my eyeballs were going to explode when I first got the new Samsung. Iwas able to select a different color "temperature" and the white screens became pleasant to look at.

[Greg VN]

I straightened out a paper clip and pushed harder and I was able to open it. It is continueing to hang up and will not open automatically when you push the button. The paper clip works every time if you push hard enough. For now I will not worry about it since I don't use it very often.

 

I agree about the white especially with my catteracts. How do you change the the temperature?

 

Thanks

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

Actually I used the wrong term...

 

Poke around in the menu until you find "color tone" and set it to "warm". That helped a lot for me.

[jeff]

Greg, have you tried "telling" it to eject?

my computer/d/ right click --- eject

[Greg VN]

Matt - I found in the menue of the monitor how to adjust the brightness and that helped

 

 

Jeff - An error comes up saying "unable to eject disk E"

 

Thanks for your help.

[dareman]

LG 20" Widescreen Monitor (L204WT) at Circuit City for $310. 2000:1 contrast with 5 millisecond response We've been very happy with ours!

[ToolMan184]

Get a 24" wide screen, way better. I wouldnt take anything for mine. Couldnt do with out it.