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Compaq TFT7020 review

Support for the TFT7020 is comprehensive. The three-year warranty covers parts, labor, and onsite service. Toll-free phone support is available 24/7 for the length of the warranty, and Compaq's Web site offers the latest drivers and user forums, as well as an intelligent search engine for support questions.

These days, you can find 17-inch LCDs that cost less than the Compaq TFT7020, but chances are you won't get the same picture quality, comprehensive service and support, or corporate-friendly features. The TFT7020 is one of the better display buys we've seen lately; it's an all-around strong product for an affordable price.

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LCD image-quality test
Longer bars indicate better performance
0-50 = Poor   50-60 = Fair   60-70 = Good   70-80 = Very good   80-100 = Excellent
Formac Gallery 1740
80 
Compaq TFT7020
73 
Hitachi CML170B+
70 
Cornerstone f1200
64 
Samsung 760v TFT
62 
 

The bright, high-contrast Compaq offered some excellent and some not so excellent images in our tests. Focus was crisp and clear when we viewed text pages, Web sites, and all types of digital images on the TFT7020. And Web colors were vibrant and rich after we lowered the factory-preset contrast. In Photoshop, certain colors looked muted until we jacked the contrast back up, making the LCD too bright for normal Web and text viewing.

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Quick Specifications

  • Release date10/6/01
  • Display Type LCD display / TFT active matrix
  • Diagonal Size 17.0 in
  • Display interface VGA (HD-15) DVI
  • Max Resolution 1280 x 1024 / 75.0 Hz
  • Dot pitch 0.26 mm
  • Aspect ratio 5:4
  • Contrast ratio 400:1
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