New Monitor - Wide Screen or Not

I am in the market for a new monitor and I'd like to get some
recommendations. It is a tight budget about $US 350. In this price
range it looks like the 20.1 " screens offer the best LCD specs
smallest pixel size etc., while the 22 " widescreens offer the lower
end LCD panel technology. The wide screen obviously allow side-by-side
viewing. I realize the standard 19 and 20" 4:3 format is going away,
but I am not worried about that. My work is a mix of office docs and
CAD work. Are the widescreen LCDs worth the trade-off in display
quality compared to the standard formant 20 inch? Any recommendations
on a monitor? The HP LP2065 and NEC 20WMGX2 have come up in my
research.

 

28" Samsung, 3000:1, 2ms
- - - -
Less than $600 each. I just bought four of them.
The new Core 2 Quad is impressive as well. I'm running the 64 bit version of
XP. Nice.

 

I got one of the 22" monitors and have been frustrated by the very hard
to read letters in the regular applications. I didn't notice any
problems with the SW lettering. What's the real solution to this?

 

Possibly your font settings. You should also load the latest Samsung monitor
driver from the Microsoft site.
I also have a 226CW and 226BW and the system performance for my application
increased dramatically when I had the later monitor drivers loaded. Go
figure.

 

D-Net in Torrance. $598.00 each. They don't have stock but they get them in
about three days.

 

That's in California.
*Perhaps* http://www.dnetcomputers.com/modules.php?name=Contact ?

 

Nope
23018 Crenshaw Bl.
Torrance, CA

 

I can see how the extra width would be put to good use for both office
and CAD. But are the 22" lower LCD specs very noticeable for CAD
work? (I am running and nVidia FX560 card and and Viewsonic CRT with
1280 x 1024 and .25 pitch. ) . I think the main specs to be
concerned with are viewing area, resolution, pixel size, view area and
maybe color saturation .

Comparison between typical spec for the lower end 22" and higher
end 20" are :

resolution - 1680 x 1050 vs 1600 x 1200
pixel - .282 vs .254
Viewing Angle 160 horiz vs 178 deg
Response 5 ms vs 8 to 5 ms
LCD panel type TN vs ISP (typical) - accuracy of color

 

Good info. Just checking - did you try new drivers and settings in the
video card? Same display problem in SW or ProE?

 

I have the 19" Dell at home and 22" Envision at work. Didn't like them
at first because of the short top to bottom but have gotten used to it.
Have had no problems with SW, ProE or UG to fill up the screen.

 

GROSS! this is a solidworks newsgroup....

:~)>

bob z.

 

one thing bob z. has not seen mentioned yet is the drawings. all
drawings are wider than they are tall. bob z.'s wife has one of them
dang 22" widescreen monitors (bob z. has a 19" 4:3) and he got to
detail some stuff on the 22". man, was that cool!

go for the widescreen! don't listen to the autocad naysayers!
:~)>

bob z.

 

W____I____D____E____S____C____R____E____E____N

I've got a 24" Dell 2407WFP and I luv it!!!

I wouldn't go with anything less than 22", 8ms or better and good
contrast.

....

 

Hence the "perhaps".

A lookup finds a "Domino Computer Self Service Center"
& a "TISO TECH INC" there it looks like. Perhaps a namechange or old
data on the Web.
Yellowpages search also finds a "Domino Computer Self Service Center"
there with a phone number of 310-325-9701.

Don't know if that helps anybody.

 

hee-hee. no problem! bob z. sorta sounded like one of them newsgroup-
nazis. bob z. could not be further from that.
:~)>

bob z.

 

I dropped the 20" 1600x1200 because of the low dotpitch, users where trying
to run the monitor with wrong resolution, because every thing was so small.
Now I use the 24" 1920 x 1200 from Dell with the S-PVA (Samsung) panel, as
standard monitor.
When the price gets low enough i will try one of them 27" 1920x1200 as they
got the same dotpitch as a 19" 1280x1024.

And stop worring about the responce time its low enough and dosent mean a
sh..,

Regards Peter