So I bought one of the fresh Mac Pro Quad 2.8 cores last month with the 512mb 8800GT. I figured I didn't have enough money for the Apple 23" and noticed the 16ms speed and figured it wasn't what I was looking for in a display of that price range anyway. So I went in search of a large monitor (my 19" was getting lame) After a couple of days of searching I found an Acer P241W model Lcd... It was only $375.00 and had Dvi-D, HDMI, and Vga. I figure great find right? Wrong.
Input "you get what you paid for comment" here.
Anyway the monitor was nice and bright but that doesn't really matter when the screen is stretched to the point so far to the right that you can't see what your doing. Everything was distorted.
I was communicating with Nvidia (Who has great customer service by the way) and came to the conclusion that the monitor was messed up. Turns out its all the acer monitors of this monitor. I got in touch with their customer support and the answer I got was to talk to Nvidia and check the monitor's manual.
Uhm.... Lets see.... I ALREADY DID THAT
Luckily I was able to swap this piece of junk in for a 24" glossy Gateway. It has Dvi-D, HDMI, component, composite, VGA and svideo inputs as well as PIP ability. Not to mention the awesome touch sensitive panel that leaves the monitor nice a clean around the bezel. I also found out when I got it home that the monitor will rotate 90 degrees into landscape mode for when I do graphic design oriented stuff. Only $100 more and a 3ms response time.
Awesome monitor!
Input "you get what you paid for comment" here.
Anyway the monitor was nice and bright but that doesn't really matter when the screen is stretched to the point so far to the right that you can't see what your doing. Everything was distorted.
I was communicating with Nvidia (Who has great customer service by the way) and came to the conclusion that the monitor was messed up. Turns out its all the acer monitors of this monitor. I got in touch with their customer support and the answer I got was to talk to Nvidia and check the monitor's manual.
Uhm.... Lets see.... I ALREADY DID THAT
Luckily I was able to swap this piece of junk in for a 24" glossy Gateway. It has Dvi-D, HDMI, component, composite, VGA and svideo inputs as well as PIP ability. Not to mention the awesome touch sensitive panel that leaves the monitor nice a clean around the bezel. I also found out when I got it home that the monitor will rotate 90 degrees into landscape mode for when I do graphic design oriented stuff. Only $100 more and a 3ms response time.
Awesome monitor!