Re: 2405FPW 24-inch Wide Aspect Flat Panel LCD - Text Legibility for Person in 50s - Advice
- From: "hrdtd" <hdrdtd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:49:35 -0500
A couple of years ago, I decided to upgrade from a 19" CRT which I was
running at 1280x1024 monitor to a LCD.
At first I couldn't see any point in buying an LCD of the same size. If
you're going to upgrade, then why not get something bigger.
Then I learned about the native resolution for different sizes of LCD
screens. At that time, the native resolution of most 19" LCD, 1280x1024.
It seemed tho that as you moved to 20" LCD's all of a sudden the native
resolution jumped to 1600x1200. Looking at standard text at 1600x1200 was
simply to hard on my eyes. The text was too small for me.
I ended up buying a Dell 1901FP Ultrasharp in the end, and I've been
tickeled to death with it.
Jump ahead to 2 month ago, I decided it was time to upgrade the monitor
again.
I looked at the Dell 2000FPW, but realized that because it was a wide-screen
format, I would actually lose vertical height compared to my 1901FP.
The 2405FPW seemed to be a better fir for me, would game quite a bit of
width, and an inch or two in height. The price was OK because you can
usually find it with a coupon for around $800.
I was still concerned though, with the size of the text. The 1901FP ran at
1280x1024, and the bigger 2405FPW runs at 1920x1200 but is an inch or so
taller.
I thought about driving an hour or so to the nearest Dell store to see if I
could look at an actual 2405FPW to see what the text looked like. In the end
though, my impatient got the best of me and I just ordered the darn thing
sight unseen.
Ordered it on-line using my Dell Preferred acount and selected the 'next
business day' shipping. I think I ordered it around 3:30pm or so, and it was
actually delivered less than 24hr's later.
This monitor is great. The size of the text may be a slight fraction smaller
than the 1901 at 1280x1024, but I can read it just fine as is without having
to adjust any settings within Windows to compensate for the higher
resolution.
Everything I've thrown at it from normal Microsoft Office apps, to games
such as HL2, Quake4, Far Cry, Fear, etc all look great. Ive watched a few
DVD's as well and they look just fine as well, though that's not what I
bought the monitor for.
Buy it, you'll never look back.
"John Smith" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I currently have an excellent 19" Sony LCD - 1280 X 1024. Office
Applications are fine since you can adjust the screen zoom. However the
Windows desktop is another story. I would say that I couldn't reduce the
screen resolution any more. Smaller characters will be just too small. I
realize there are options: changing the native resolution or screen font,
but these are very suboptimal and I won't compromise in this manner.
A few months ago I bought a Gateway 21" wide aspect LCD 1600X1200. I
couldn't get used to the loss of several inches of screen height. Moroever
the desktop font was smaller than what I have now. I tolerated it, but I
ended up sending the monitor back because it was too confining vertically.
The Dell 2405PW is 24" diagonally and 12.7" inches in screen height which,
in that dimension, is little larger than my 19" 4x3 conventional aspect
Sony . So the question is whether I will be able to tolerate the Windows
desktop, explorer windows etc. w/a 1920 X 1200 resolution on the Dell
2405PW .
I would appreciate general comments, especially by those who have the
2405PW . The goal here is to increase my workspace and have a monitor for
viewing DVDs w/out going for a large screen TV set.
.
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