Recommendations for a decent 17" monitor (UK).

[Evolvere]

Can anyone recommended a decent but cheap 17" monitor? It will only be used to provide a second screen to my 13" MacBook Pro when reading and editing documents, and so does not have to give particularly good colour or video performance. I'm happy to buy second-hand and my budget is as low as possible, around £60. If this is too low, please let me know.

A second question related to the first, is VGA or DVI? It seems a VGA only monitor is going to be cheaper, but I've heard some worries about clarity of text via VGA with Mac OS X. Any thoughts on this?

Thank you.

 

[wordoflife]

You should buy a Dell. Seems like they have a 17 inch for 88 pounds, or a 18.5 for 100 pounds. Dell has very good displays in my experience.

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sn...tegory_id=210&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&sort=price

 

[NiGoosHii]

Thats really low ^ - ^

 

[Evolvere]

You should buy a Dell. Seems like they have a 17 inch for 88 pounds, or a 18.5 for 100 pounds. Dell has very good displays in my experience.

Thanks, I think maybe I'll check on eBay for 2008/2009 Dell monitors and hopefully pick up a bargain. I know £60 is cheap, but if they are selling for £88 new, it doesn't seem too unreasonable.

 

[webmunki]

You might be able to pick something up on Freecycle.

http://www.uk.freecycle.org/

 

[LastLine]

Freecycle = full of win

 

[Evolvere]

I ended up buying a Dell P170S from a seller on eBay. It was new and only cost me £64 so I think I picked up a bargain. Working fine on my tiny desk next to my MacBook Pro. For anyone else interested, if you search eBay for 'p170s' the same seller has two more at a Buy It Now price of £75 with free postage.