I would like to ask a few questions about LCD monitors but before I do, I just want to comment on what a nightmare it's been trying to phone Dell and inquire about what the differences are between the various different models, be it the two 19" monitors 2001 and 2005 and the two 20.5 inch monitors. Even when asking to be transferred to someone who knows the Ultra Sharp product, i.e., somone who isn't giving me information by reading from a knowledge Base ... but KNOWS the products, I have never spoken to a single person who hasn't had to refer to data sheet, and have ever spoken to anyone who couldn't talk about it without reading from data sheet. It's hard to believe, but I have spoken to over a dozen people in the last few weeks, and not one of them has really been familar with the product line they are selling ... and this is after asking, and supposedly being transferred to a product specialist in monitors. I don't think it even exists, or if it does, I have yet to be transferred there.
I'll have to admitt being a total novice at LCD, having used large CRT monitor since 1989. I've got some LCD monitors on order at the present time, so the next few weeks will be interesting.
I'm over 50 years old, and my eye sight has seen better days. I use 20" CRT at 1024x768, but was amazed recently at how sharp and easy to read the Dell 17-inch Ultra Sharp was that I installed at customer's site. I could sit far enough away from it to say it was further than I normally sit, and it was still easier to read than my own CRT. I think that resolution was 1280x1024. I would assume that the 19" monitor which also uses the same native resolution is even easier to read ...being a slightly larger screen.
Previous experience would tend suggest that to be true. Anyone out there familiar with both? I notice that there are two 19" Ultra Sharp monitors and that the latest 17" Ultra sharp is the 1703.
Not to get off subject by too much, I'm also interested in having a larger monitor, like the 20.5 inch Dell Ultra Sharp, but note that the native resolution is either 1600x1200 on the 2001FP and 1680X1050 for the newer 2005FPw (by the way, when asking people about these monitors at Dell none of them really new that there was a size difference or resolution difference). I had to find out about it in places like this Forum!).
I'd appreciate some feedback on the issue of changing the resolution, i.e., lowering it, in order to be ABLE TO SEE stuff. I realize, as on all monitors, that lowering the resolution does ... just that, and that it can't be as sharp or fantastic at a lower resolution. But how much does lowering the resolution degrade the sharpness of the text? For example, if I look at the 19" at 1280x1024 and I look at the same resolution on the FP2001 or FP2005FPw, does the mere fact that I'm not at native resolution anymore mean that the image is going to be a lot sharper and lot crisper on the 19" than on the 20.5 2001FP or 2005FPw? How significant is the difference ... when droping to a lower resolution on the larger 20" versus, the 19" or even the 17" monitor. The 17" looked so sharp to me. What happens to the sharpness, i.e., how much is it deminished when dropping out of "native mode" to a lower resolution? Is it significant.
I have given up trying to ask Dell such questions. Salesmen that I've talked to have seen these monitors but never compared them, and certainly never discussed resolution differences, or discussed "native resolution" and dropping out of it to a lower resultion. I'd very much like to ask forum users if they have any experience with the 20.5 in comparing lower resolutions to the sharpness of text when compared to monitors like the 15, 17 and 19 that run a lower resolutions. Not all of us are 30 years old with perfect vision. And not all of can see all that well at 1600x1200 or even 1600x1050.
Any and all imput from the forum members would be much appreciated.
- Sadhu.
I'll have to admitt being a total novice at LCD, having used large CRT monitor since 1989. I've got some LCD monitors on order at the present time, so the next few weeks will be interesting.
I'm over 50 years old, and my eye sight has seen better days. I use 20" CRT at 1024x768, but was amazed recently at how sharp and easy to read the Dell 17-inch Ultra Sharp was that I installed at customer's site. I could sit far enough away from it to say it was further than I normally sit, and it was still easier to read than my own CRT. I think that resolution was 1280x1024. I would assume that the 19" monitor which also uses the same native resolution is even easier to read ...being a slightly larger screen.
Previous experience would tend suggest that to be true. Anyone out there familiar with both? I notice that there are two 19" Ultra Sharp monitors and that the latest 17" Ultra sharp is the 1703.
Not to get off subject by too much, I'm also interested in having a larger monitor, like the 20.5 inch Dell Ultra Sharp, but note that the native resolution is either 1600x1200 on the 2001FP and 1680X1050 for the newer 2005FPw (by the way, when asking people about these monitors at Dell none of them really new that there was a size difference or resolution difference). I had to find out about it in places like this Forum!).
I'd appreciate some feedback on the issue of changing the resolution, i.e., lowering it, in order to be ABLE TO SEE stuff. I realize, as on all monitors, that lowering the resolution does ... just that, and that it can't be as sharp or fantastic at a lower resolution. But how much does lowering the resolution degrade the sharpness of the text? For example, if I look at the 19" at 1280x1024 and I look at the same resolution on the FP2001 or FP2005FPw, does the mere fact that I'm not at native resolution anymore mean that the image is going to be a lot sharper and lot crisper on the 19" than on the 20.5 2001FP or 2005FPw? How significant is the difference ... when droping to a lower resolution on the larger 20" versus, the 19" or even the 17" monitor. The 17" looked so sharp to me. What happens to the sharpness, i.e., how much is it deminished when dropping out of "native mode" to a lower resolution? Is it significant.
I have given up trying to ask Dell such questions. Salesmen that I've talked to have seen these monitors but never compared them, and certainly never discussed resolution differences, or discussed "native resolution" and dropping out of it to a lower resultion. I'd very much like to ask forum users if they have any experience with the 20.5 in comparing lower resolutions to the sharpness of text when compared to monitors like the 15, 17 and 19 that run a lower resolutions. Not all of us are 30 years old with perfect vision. And not all of can see all that well at 1600x1200 or even 1600x1050.
Any and all imput from the forum members would be much appreciated.
- Sadhu.