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2.0 stars
"This monitor while sexy and sleek has one underlying flaw that makes it hard to love"
Pros: The wide screen, amazing specs and clean design make a great package..currently can be had for less then $450!!!
Cons: Backlight, Backlight, Backlight. GO no further then dell.com forums and search 2005fpw to read the horrors
Summary: This is a monitor I have been trying desperately to love, look at the specs, amazing resolutions, pivot display, clean design,super fast refresh of 16ms, it seeminly has it all. What this monitor is missing is quality control from the manufacturing divison of Dell. I am on my second replacement now on dell's dime, and they seem to only get worse with each delivery. I myself play alot of games with dark environments, i,e, Doom 3 etc. and the backlight bleed is an utter showstopper, the screen seems to flare out whenever I enter a dark area and is very distracting. I also do alot of cad and graphics work, and the backlight is a distraction then as well if I am working on dark images etc.
If you don't play games or do any graphics work where you use a black background then this monitor is probably a steal for you. The price is dropping every day, and can now be had for just a bit more then a regular aspect 19" monitor with a much lower native resolution screen and slower response time.
Other monitors with similar specs and size are selling for more then twice this baby's pricetag. When surfing the web, or playing games that are not in dark environments the monitor is simply stunning. the image is ultra sharp and responsive, and color rendition is top notch. the specs for this monitor match the highly acclaimed Cinemaview monitor from Apple, but the similarity seems to stop in the specs, Dell clearly has some manuf errors to fix before this is an award winning monitor,and note my monitors are labeled with manuf stamps from May and June 2005, so don't believe they have fixed the backlight issue, they clearly have not!!!
- 3 replies to this review
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What video card do you have? That makes alot of difference.
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I have the new AO2 revision and the problems are totally fixed. Its true the older versions had some problems, but make sure to get the new AO2 Revision. I personally play xbox 360 with this monitor and it looks amazing. I also think that the 12 ms response time is very good and will not be an issue. At first i was really shaky about spending $400.00 on this monitor, but it is completely worth it now. Go ahead and buy it you will like it or spend $1000 and up on an HDTV LCD TV.
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Actually, Dell and and Apple use the exact same LG.Philips LCD (literally, it's part# LM201W01)
