Recommended LCD Monitors

<p>I’m most likely going to be getting a 12’’ laptop. I think the title’s self-explanatory.</p>

<p>depends what you need it for.</p>

<p>Do you play games?</p>

<p>if yes you want somthing with a low response time.</p>

<p>do you like alot if rich colors?</p>

<p>You wnat somthing with a high contrast ratio?</p>

<p>Tell us what you need it for and how much u got to spend</p>

<p>The new samsungs are great (730B and 930B).</p>

<p>the Hyundai lf90+ (its something like that) uses the same panel and is equally great.</p>

<p>There are some pretty good LG’s out there.</p>

<p>Go over to <a href=“http://graphics.tomshardware.com/[/url]”>http://graphics.tomshardware.com/&lt;/a&gt; where they often do hardware shootouts. There is even an article from june 6th entitled Finding the Best 19" LCD Monitor for Your Application.</p>

<p>Among the best LCDs on the market:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824179014[/url]”>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824179014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Best in the “reasonable” price range, anyway.</p>

<p>on a similar note, any 19" ones that go to 1600x1200? i havent had any luck finding one…:(</p>

<p>the dell 2001fp is a great monitor which supports 16x12</p>

<p>I’m not a big gamer or anything. I’d most likely use it for writing papers, email, music; basically your average things, but I would also like a crisp picture because I will be watching TV and dvds on it as well. I’ve heard good things about Acers, Envisions, and Samsungs…</p>

<p>I have an NEC 15" monitor that I bought from Sam’s Club a year and a half ago and I’ve been very happy with it. I know 15" is smaller than everyone else’s, but at the time 17" monitors were expensive. If you’re looking for a deal, check Sam’s, as I think they have some 17" monitors by NEC and Viewsonic.</p>

<p>I have a dell 17" at home and a 19" at work. I think they do what you need to do pretty well, and they’re not too expensive.</p>

<p>vincent, i’ll look into the dell…thanks :)</p>

<p>Acers are nice, I have one, works perfect and was cheap. Look at the refresh rate though. Getting something lower then 18ms</p>

<p>What does that mean to this technologically illiterate person?</p>

<p>Things are animated by redrawing pictures that are slightly different than each other. The faster the refresh rate of the monitor, the more smooth animations will be. 18 ms is the time between refreshes, I think, so the smaller the better… bigndude, were you sugesting anything lower than 18 ms?</p>

<p>just want to point out that refresh rate exists for crt monitors only. there, the electrons have to keep being shot at pixels to excite them. the refresh rate is how many times per second (Hz) the image can change.</p>

<p>in an lcd, the number in ms is the response time. simply applying current to the panel keeps it live, so no refresh is needed. however, when the image changes, there is some lag time present. manufacturers use two methods for determining the response time - GTG (grey to grey) and BTW (black to white). the grey/grey looks at how much time it takes for one shade to change to another. the b/w looks at how much time it takes for black to change to white, or vice versa. b/w response times are slower since a greater degree of change is needed. :)</p>

<p>Thanks for the info, karthikkito. I thought something was probably wrong in my explanation, but I thought it was close enough to be useful. :)</p>

<p>krazykow, the only mistake was calling it ‘refresh rate’. i just wanted to point out the difference if anyone wanted to know more. :)</p>

<p>Yea I was referring to getting a monitor with a rate of less then 18ms.</p>

<p>you have to read an independant review from someone capable of testing response times and comparing them because the manufacturer times cannot be trusted. You have no way of knowing what testing method they used to get the time and how it compares to other monitors.</p>

<p>People like toms hardware and some of the other “big” tech sites are capable of testing these things.</p>

<p>when you buy, make sure the monitor <em>looks</em> good - that is, not only image quality, but the physical design. if it’s hideous, you won’t want to look at it ;).</p>