general computer questions

[Garth]

ok guy's,dont know if ive told anyone but currently im running a acer system, and im far from impressed, if anything im rather disapointed and anoyed at this system, it's reliable, but i cant do anything with it, it's as good as it can be.

so on saturday i went out and ordered a custom built machine threw hp

3.4ghz intel cpu
512mb video card
2gig memory ddr2
120gig hard drive
7.1 sound system on it.
1 dvd cd recordable system
6 in 1 card reader
windows media center
windows xp home sp2
a flash looking cordless keyboard and mouse, looks cool
and a shitty looking hp all in one printer scanner fax copyer thingy

net connection it will be running will be a fiber connection, aka digital subscriber line running the vdsl edgelink vtu10 along side the vtuv24s (ill take pic's on thrusday when it's commisioned)

now, the question i realy wanna know is, im looking for either a 19 or a 21 inch lcd screen with a 4ms responce time, around the 1024x1028 colour mark any ideas.

i like the widescreen screen, but soon to be wife isnt to keen on the idea, so if you can give me some tips so i can talk up the widescreen abit that would be good

cheers
garth

[HoZy]

If your gaming, there is yet a widescreen even with 4ms response that looks good... Widescreen PC lcd's are nice for every day use but intense graphics etc... worthless..

Look into a 19" 4:3 ratio..... 4ms screen. You'll never regret it

Cheers
MaT

[minux]

LMAO through HP that will cost you about $4000!!!!

[vy_storm]

Have a look at the larger dell screens on their site. We are running a few top end 19's here at work and am pretty impressed by the resolution and viewing angles,

[Morgasshk]

who's paying for it? The SHOULD solve any arguments...

bugger a 19 or 21... get a 32 inch lcd tv and have it hooked up as a monitor.... noice...

[mattman]

Yep Dell make a pretty good screen, some of their larger widescreens are all but worshipped by gamers.

19" you are looking at 1280x1024 res... anything larger is going to be 1600x1200, which can be a bit hard on the eyes for some.

[ucwepn]

widescreen is the way, everything will be widescreen soon, you watch LOL

[Shifty1]

you want widescreen.. tell her you can use it as a TV as well to watch windscreen movies

[mattman]

widescreen is the way, everything will be widescreen soon, you watch LOL

No friggen joke,, all the notebooks we sell are going widescreen... going from 1 out of 5 ranges being widescreen, now it's like 1 in 5 are aren't...

[stocky]

benq make good lcd monitors too. i have a 17" running at 1280x1024

[minux]

Don't get any other monitor other than sony, they pwn

[sixshooter]

I can't give you any advice on LCD's atm, cause I'm a bit behind the times when talking hardware... But considering you have money to burn on a fairly fast high end machine... have you ever thought of going for a projector and throwing the monitor idea away ?
IT Lecturers use them in TAFE and they are awesome !!! You can have a real cool system with one projecting your movies or games or internet straight onto a wall any size you like ...Atleast I know I'll still be able to program when I'm old and going blind...I'll just need a large enough wall...LOL

[Sabbath']

Any chance of buying a media projector?

[V3N0M]

useing lcd tv's and projectors usualy lower the quality of the images, i would go with benq they make some sweet lcd monitors, unfortunetly i dont have an lcd one yet.. maybe sometime in the future after i get my car pimped out lol. but yeah go the widescreens my mate has a benq 21inch widescreen lcd.. its kicks

[stocky]

a friend of mine has a 24" dell widescreen lcd. it is DAMN nice. has about 5 different inputs so you can plug in your computer through VGA, DVI, s video, etc

[Darren]

It all boils down to what your after, I recently went along the widescreen path and spent countless hours reading, research and finally narrowed it down to 3 makes, Dell, Samsung or Viewsonic.

Dell at present has some serious quality issue's with their panels at present so they were quickly scrubbed off the list, Samsung whilst a very nice screen you pay through the nose for it and the little extra's you get.

I ended up going for the Viewsonic widescreen, whilst it's only 20.3" it was very cheap and Viewsonic have a good name for quality products plus an awesome warranty which can't be said for all of the others at the time of writing this. Viewsonic is the only company to the best of knowledge which will replace the screen if even 1 pixel is dead whereas others and lets pick BenQ as a sucker you need to have 4 dead black pixels, 4 white or 10 sub pixels in order for them to exchange it. I think it's safe to safe once you find 1 it will drive you completely mad. On the otherhand we have Dell who think it's quite OK to have 6 dead pixels before exchanging it.

Anyway enough about warranty rubbish and lets get back to it, the Viewsonic was half the price of anything else out there. The Samsung for example for an extra inch was near enough to $400 more which when it boiled down to it I couldn't justify it plus the Viewsonic looked nicer to my eye's which is very important (you don't buy a car without looking at it right?).

What on earth do you need 4ms for? As you know I spent 8.5 hours a day at work at a computer and then some more countless hours when I get home and found 8ms to be perfect. IMHO these 'ms' figures are a crock, it's a manufactures way of saying our product is better than the others and they are getting away with it. Watch the way they word the response time!

As far I know a 21" 4ms I think your going to have a tough time finding anything in that range. 19" is the way of going if you so require the 4ms.

There's my quick view of it

Don't mind the mistakes I'm off to have tea now.

[mattman]

Another note on the ms thing.... 4ms monitors are usually very fast, but at the loss of quality, unfortunately it isn't a perfect world, and generally you can't have both As Darren said, 8ms is good enough for any application.

[maxy0987]

Dell at present has some serious quality issue's with their panels at present so they were quickly scrubbed off the list, Samsung whilst a very nice screen you pay through the nose for it and the little extra's you get.

the 'banding' issue of the 24" dells are pretty much fixed with the latest revision. Still minor banding but most people dont even recognise it.
Who the hell stares at a solid gradient image all day?