Home > Consumer Reviews > ViewSonic E90F 19" .21 1600X1200 Perfect Flat

With a few small gripes, this monitor is still wonderful for most. (NOT good for Graphics Professionals.) If you don't want to go above 1280x960 on a 19" monitor, and you're on Windows, you're pretty much guaranteed to be happy to get this monitor at this pricepoint. The color is pretty good, the pixels are fairly small, and a 75 refresh rate(at 1280x960) isn't half bad. This is one of the best 19" monitors you can get for around this pricepoint.

The gripes...

- Slight moire towards the side near the lower part of the monitor under Linux or the Mac OS. (9, X) cannot be gotten rid of using on-screen Moire reduction controls, and Degauss does not effect it. It can be gotten rid of in other ways, but they're more difficult.

- at 1280x960, the maximum refresh rate is 75, which is a bit low. Going above 1280x960 can make the refresh rate intolerably low. (The monitor supports a 1600x1200 resolution)

- On-screen controls make it unnecessarily difficult to fix trapezoidal/pincussion issues compared to some other brands, and the higher-end Viewsonic monitors.

- This monitor is *BRIGHT*. With the brightness settings on the monitor all the way down, the monitor was still far too bright, and required some tweaking from within the OS to bring the brightness down to a comfortable level.

Overall, though, it is about half the price of the monitors that are gripe-free, and compared to other 19" monitors in the same price point, the issues I experienced with the Viewsonic e90f were minimal and easy to resolve.

I wanted a 1600x1200 resolution at 19". This is what this product advertises- but this is impossible. The refresh rate is too slow, you cannot use this setting at all.
I'm a developer. I look at tons of text all day long. I scroll through thousands of lines of code.
I have a dual screen setup, my lefty is a CTX 17" color monitor. And I needed a decent replacement for my righty. It seemed at the time the ViewSonic 19" E90f True Flat was a good choice. I read up a ton on the matter.
But the thing is terrible. At 1600x1200 the refresh rate is horrid. A step down for me is 1280x1024. This is decent- It's actually possible to look at a white background on a webpage. But at that setting, it's the same as my lefty, only bigger size physically on my desk.
This monitor is not fit for -office- use.

I've had this monitor for something like 4 years now, and it has never once disappointed me. I will grant that I am not a graphics professional but I do a great deal of graphics-intensive gaming on my system and the monitor has always outperformed my friends' and colleagues' monitors, both in terms of resolution/pixel size, and refresh rate.

It's never had any failures, the color has never gone out of whack, never had to have it serviced, etc... the interface for controlling all the settings (which has to be fiddled with a bit to get the monitor in the perfect viewing nirvana) are difficult to use at first, but don't take too long for a determined novice to learn.

An extremely solid monitor at an awesome, competitive price.

received as a gift, and no later than 1 1/2 year old started having a short inside monitor, currently i have to beat/bang on top/side to get full brightness, (very annoying)..personally i'll never buy their products.