Apple ACD, Dell 3008 or Sell the house and buy an NEC 3090?
The choice of 30 inch monitors in the UK at the moment is severely limited. As a student I get a discount on an Apple so prices to me are something like
Apple ACD £1025
Dell 3008 varies with offers etc but at present around £1100
NEC 3090 varies but from overclockers around £1680 (allowing for postage)
Hazro seemed to have dropped out the market (though they did send me an e-mail saying that they will be re-entering it soon). Samsung 305Ts don't seem to be readily available (at least from suppliers that I trust) though they must be around as the university where I'm studying keeps acquiring them. Eizo etc are stratospheric in pricing.
The Dell has had very mixed reviews but would allow me to plug things like my tv set-top box (which I plug into my 21inch monitor for PIP at present) and my pc as well as Mac and allow blue ray (so I could play my one blue ray sampler disk!
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Apple has had good reviews, most recently in Tom's hardware where it was favourably compared to the Dell. But it is five years old or more so most of the reviews are similarly out-of-date (what looked good when the ACD came out may have been superseded by others now).
After that long pre-amble my question is - to those who say the Dell is better than the Apple is this based on picture quality, or on other things like connectivity, HDMI, vertical screen adjustment etc?
