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Gateway FPD 2485W - LCD display - TFT - 24" - widescreen - 1920 x 1200 - 500 cd/m2 - 1000:1 - 6 ms - 0.27 mm
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A monitor to be excited about
(5 out of 5) by D. E. Helfrich on Dec 4, 2006 (Ann Arbor, MI USA)I just picked this up today and can't say enough about my initial reaction. I have a three-year-old AOC flat panel monitor that is now serving as my second display. Looking at the two side-by-side, you see a remarkable difference.
Sharp, bright, huge, almost intimidating. If you can get your hands on one of these, I think you'll feel the extra money you'll pay over a 21" is money well spent.
Notable features include:
- 90 degree rotation (your monitor can be portrait or landscape)
- picture in picture
- 16:10 aspect ratio
- 1920 X 1200 resolution (make sure your video card supports it)
- HD-ready!
- VGA, dual component, S-Video and composite
- DVI-D with HCDP input
- 4-port USB (2.0) hub
There's an available option for a speaker bar along the bottom. The monitor adjusts very easily. Raising and lowering it is aided by a spring system. The entire monitor is actually very light (~15 pounds)
I'm very happy with this purchase.
Sharp, bright, huge, almost intimidating. If you can get your hands on one of these, I think you'll feel the extra money you'll pay over a 21" is money well spent.
Notable features include:
- 90 degree rotation (your monitor can be portrait or landscape)
- picture in picture
- 16:10 aspect ratio
- 1920 X 1200 resolution (make sure your video card supports it)
- HD-ready!
- VGA, dual component, S-Video and composite
- DVI-D with HCDP input
- 4-port USB (2.0) hub
There's an available option for a speaker bar along the bottom. The monitor adjusts very easily. Raising and lowering it is aided by a spring system. The entire monitor is actually very light (~15 pounds)
I'm very happy with this purchase.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
24" of Jaw-Dropping Beauty
(5 out of 5) by R. Stone on Jan 12, 2007 (Temecula, CA United States)Wow. I just replaced a 5 year old 21" Viewsonic CRT monitor that was getting yellow and fuzzy. I picked up this beauty and plugged it into my PowerMac's DVI port and just about fried my corneas with the white intensity. Don't get me wrong about the brightness, it's a thing to behold. If they only made the automatic pivot software for the Mac...
Nothing beats lots of screen real estate, and at 1920 x 1200 I have multiple web pages side by side open or Photoshop with all the pallettes strewn everywhere with a large image open, and with the plethora of inputs I'm watching NFL network in a Picture-in-Picture while working (well, maybe not getting much work done!)
Bottom line - huge, lots of inputs, great price, Innovative stand with pivot, happy as a lark ;-)
Nothing beats lots of screen real estate, and at 1920 x 1200 I have multiple web pages side by side open or Photoshop with all the pallettes strewn everywhere with a large image open, and with the plethora of inputs I'm watching NFL network in a Picture-in-Picture while working (well, maybe not getting much work done!)
Bottom line - huge, lots of inputs, great price, Innovative stand with pivot, happy as a lark ;-)
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
High value for a good product
(4 out of 5) by Mitch Haile on Mar 21, 2007 (San Jose, CA and Boston, MA)I have two of these at home and a Dell 24" at work. Compared to the Dell, I prefer the styling of the Gateway, though the controls for changing inputs or tweaking the brightness/contrast is more frustrating on the Gateway.
One of the Gateway units I bought had to be returned due to a headache-inducing high pitched squealing noise, but my replacement has no such issue. The squeal usually started after the monitor was on for a few hours, so beware of this.
Other reviews have pointed out the great specs; I will note that this monitor offers two sets of composite inputs for DVD players/game consoles (Dell only has 1). The monitor has 100 mm VESA mounts which work fine with my Ergotron stands. In particular, I want to note the high value of this monitor. The contrast is not as good as higher priced models--many LCDs have trouble with black, and this model does a good job on it (but it's not perfect). However, this is a great monitor given its relatively low price.
One of the Gateway units I bought had to be returned due to a headache-inducing high pitched squealing noise, but my replacement has no such issue. The squeal usually started after the monitor was on for a few hours, so beware of this.
Other reviews have pointed out the great specs; I will note that this monitor offers two sets of composite inputs for DVD players/game consoles (Dell only has 1). The monitor has 100 mm VESA mounts which work fine with my Ergotron stands. In particular, I want to note the high value of this monitor. The contrast is not as good as higher priced models--many LCDs have trouble with black, and this model does a good job on it (but it's not perfect). However, this is a great monitor given its relatively low price.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Bargain Display exceeds expectations
(5 out of 5) by J. L. Bonebakker on Mar 21, 2007 (Mountain View, California USA)The 24" widescreen display looked to good to be true. For the price I was willing to try it out.
After arrival I easily installed it. Telling all my operating systems about the new display was a tad harder. WindowsXP required some tinkering plus one reboot, Solaris/Xorg only needed some changes to the xorg.conf
The good:
- excellent brightness and responsiveness
- crisp image
- reasonable power consumption (~125W) (better than my 280W 21" CRT)
The untested:
- PIP, TV and other screen modes, no need to, please check out the other reviews.
The not so good:
- color-sync is hard. Compared to my Apple and the CRT the red colors are richer than they should be. Not really annoying, its like looking at Kodak Color GOLD pictures all the time... colors are shinier than reality... Getting to the appropriate balance is likely very difficult since the backlight does not have the appropriate spectral range. In the spectroscope the Apple screen has a more uniform spectrum. This however is a nit.
Overall:
Unless your work requires color-sync, this is a great monitor.
After arrival I easily installed it. Telling all my operating systems about the new display was a tad harder. WindowsXP required some tinkering plus one reboot, Solaris/Xorg only needed some changes to the xorg.conf
The good:
- excellent brightness and responsiveness
- crisp image
- reasonable power consumption (~125W) (better than my 280W 21" CRT)
The untested:
- PIP, TV and other screen modes, no need to, please check out the other reviews.
The not so good:
- color-sync is hard. Compared to my Apple and the CRT the red colors are richer than they should be. Not really annoying, its like looking at Kodak Color GOLD pictures all the time... colors are shinier than reality... Getting to the appropriate balance is likely very difficult since the backlight does not have the appropriate spectral range. In the spectroscope the Apple screen has a more uniform spectrum. This however is a nit.
Overall:
Unless your work requires color-sync, this is a great monitor.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Bright as the sun!
(5 out of 5) by D. Rex on Feb 15, 2007 (Cincy)Wow! This is the brighest display I've ever seen! Blows away the 20" 1280x1024 Sony that I'm replacing. The store demo does not do this justice once you've seen it cranked up to 1920x1200 in your own home.
Definitely recommeded.
Definitely recommeded.