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October 12, 2003

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New monitor - wow!
Posted by Grant

I just bought myself a new 17" Sony LCD, and I'm impressed! I've been eye-balling this model, due to it's nice design and great specs, but had put it off as a future present to myself. Then, yesterday I found it had been discontinued at Staples, and was $350 less than I had seen it anywhere else. Needless to say, I bought it, much to the chagrine of my lovely girlfriend.

Other than a single stuck pixel (darn), this monitor is beautiful. It's 500:1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m2 brightness is expressed in one of the widest color ranges I've seen in an LCD (compare to the apple 17" LCD at 350:1 and 200 cd/m2). My 15" Powerbook's screen is seriously disgusting in comparison (see this pic - the Sony on the left, and my PB on the right). I just hope my new 12" Powerbook's screen compares better when it arrives.

[EDIT:] Did a little digging around, and found a $50 mail-in, too. That means I got the monitor for over 40% off the regular local price. Good deal! [/Edit]

Posted @ 10:56 PM by Grant | TrackBack

Comments

How much did you pay for it? Hopefully not more than $500 because you can get it straight from sony for that. Nice monitor though :)

Posted by: Butt Sparkler at October 12, 2003 11:29 PM

$547 Canadian (about $415 USD) - it's selling for about $900 cdn in most stores around here, and $849 on Sony.ca.

Posted by: Grant Skinner at October 13, 2003 12:36 AM

is that picture taken from the real thing? coz the wallpaper look really alive

Posted by: krist at October 13, 2003 07:26 AM

Those are sweet sets, we bought two of them a couple of months back. Great display quality and a cool packaged design.

Posted by: Steve at October 13, 2003 07:41 AM

Its really a nice monitor I bought the same two weeks ago. And I have the same dead pixel in the upper right corner of the screen.

My old Apple Studio 17" CRT looks really blurry right to it..

Posted by: ph at October 21, 2003 10:24 AM