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I have been using this monitor at 1024 x 768 resolution and have found picture quality to be sharp and very detailed. I am really impressed with photos taken using my FUJI S602ZOOM using the Finepix Viewer as a slideshow.

This CRT monitor is a bargain as they are becoming less popular due to Dell's 19" FP TFTs. I have been given to understand that text can be 'fuzzy' on the TFTs and can honestly say I have never experienced any 'fuzzyness' with this superb CRT.

Image is stable and sharp.....a quality product from DELL.

I will wait for a while when TFTs become cheaper and DELL have ironed out the 'fuzzy' problem with text.

The Dell 19" CRT monitor that runs up to 1600x1200 @ 75Hz but has a sharper picture at 1280x1024. It's quite deep at around 47cm, too. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the monitor. The picture is even, well-defined, and gaming is good. The panel's 16ms response time is, in my eyes, more than adequate for gaming. Most observers would agree that decent TFT panels are now acceptable gaming screens. This is a great monitor if you can afford the LCD prices.

I bought this monitor along with a Dell Dimension 8300 in June 2003. It immediately impressed me with its great visuals. This monitor works great with everything I do—games, photos, web browsing, spreadsheets. Glare is minimal as well. It's heavy and big, but I don't move it much, so that's not much of a problem. There might be better monitors out there, but at this price, you’re not likely to find a better monitor.

My last monitor Goldstar monitor which was great started to go last year so I decided to get a new monitor. I was going to get a dell lcd but I was on a budget and thought I could save some money buy getting another crt. Big mistake. When I got the monitor. The geomitry is terrible. The top and bottom are curved bow like which you can't adjust. The left and right corners you can adjust one side correct but the other side is uneven so I have to keep them both a little uneve. CRT's all have this problem and they lie when it says flat screen because they are not flat at all. Only LCD's are perfectly even. The corners are blurry. I run it at 1152x864 at 75hz. 60hz gives you a headache after 5 minutes. Then after all of these problems I was stupid not to return it. I had it all packed up and I decided since it weighs a ton to keep it which was a big mistake. Well this year I now have the money to afford a lcd and I decided to get a 20.1" lcd. I had many bad experiences with CRT's and if you get one it is the luck of the draw if you get one that is good. I will never get a CRT ever again.

I use to use this 19" monitor at 1280x1024 but it started to get way too blurry so I scaled down to 1024x768. The monitor isn't very bright. The monitor at work is amazingly crisp to where I can easily read text at 1280x1024 with the Compaq's 17" monitor. I'm now rebuilding my home system using all retail components (retail components, not system). I'm saving a lot of money and I can kiss dell drivers and OEM hardware problems goodbye. The dirty secret is that OEM means that it didn't pass quality tests to be retail.