Envision 19" LCD Monitor

[sstinman]

In the spec on web site it says it has a 25ms responce time. It shouldn't ghost being that fast. Maybe if a digital signal is used to ghosting is not an issue????? The only thing that is slightly low is the contrast at 250:1 it may not look that good in a room with a lot of ambiant light.

$400 is good price now do I want to spend that much?????

Image a 2x2 array with two DVi output video cards. For about $1200 + $400 = $1600 buys a sweet 38" square LCD big screen.

 

[quikser]

Actually, the contrast is is 600, the brightness is the 250 -- both are typical specs for an LCD.

400 bucks is a great price for a 19, heck some 17s cost that much.


Heck, I could save the 400 bucks and put it into my Corvette fund

Originally posted by: sstinman
In the spec on web site it says it has a 25ms responce time. It shouldn't ghost being that fast. Maybe if a digital signal is used to ghosting is not an issue????? The only thing that is slightly low is the contrast at 250:1 it may not look that good in a room with a lot of ambiant light.

$400 is good price now do I want to spend that much?????

Image a 2x2 array with two DVi output video cards. For about $1200 + $400 = $1600 buys a sweet 38" square LCD big screen.

 

[JaydenChris]

Wonder if anyone here is going the the Shoreline, WA Costco...

I don't see the monitors selling out there...but I might be wrong.

 

[WallyKid]

Do we need a costco membership to get the monitor? Is there a free one day pass thing like sams? Anyone?

 

[Silex]

Yes you need a membership so go find somebody who has one and drag them along! This is a nice LCD and a worthy upgrade no matter what you have since it has a huge real estate and DVI, but unless you aren't using it for any kind of intense responsive taska ala games, then it's best to keep your distance and get something with a faster response time. I've had my KDS Rad-5 for two years now and with its11ms response time, there are no ghosting issues whatsoever. I just wish I could upgrade to a worthy 18"+ LCD soon .

 

[puppyfriend]

Coupons are out in mass today. The ID checker was handing them out to everyone that was coming in.

Just get the membership, buy the monitor and then get a full refund on your membership. You can cancel the membership anytime within a year and get the refund.

I doubt anyone will be able to get this deal unless you camp out early at Costco. There are only going to be like what 15 a store. Is it even a deal anymore? Say it takes a couple of hours of camping out early to ensure you get one. Most people make what, $100 an hour. That's $200 (in time) + $400 (for the monitor) = $600. Not much of a deal.

David

 

[WallyKid]

repost

 

[teKillah]

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
Coupons are out in mass today. The ID checker was handing them out to everyone that was coming in.

Just get the membership, buy the monitor and then get a full refund on your membership. You can cancel the membership anytime within a year and get the refund.

I doubt anyone will be able to get this deal unless you camp out early at Costco. There are only going to be like what 15 a store. Is it even a deal anymore? Say it takes a couple of hours of camping out early to ensure you get one. Most people make what, $100 an hour. That's $200 (in time) + $400 (for the monitor) = $600. Not much of a deal.

David

Did you say a $100 an hour and did you also say most people ??????

What do you do ??

 

[puppyfriend]

I'm just a joe average programmer. Actually I make a lot less than a whole lot of people I know. I tend to take a year or two off at a time. That pretty much resets the salary clock. I also tend to pick jobs that are more interesting but less lucrative. The job I'm at pays about half what my highest offer was.

Is $100 all that much? How can you afford to buy a house on less? What's the median price of a house now? 600K or so. That's for a run down fixer upper. I looked at a couple of 2 bedroom condos and they were 700K. A decent house is at least a million. I was reading in the local college newspaper that starting salaries are 92 to 100K a year now. That's about $50 an hour. That's for a know nothing college punk who needs a few years of training to get productive.

David

Originally posted by: teKillah

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
Coupons are out in mass today. The ID checker was handing them out to everyone that was coming in.

Just get the membership, buy the monitor and then get a full refund on your membership. You can cancel the membership anytime within a year and get the refund.

I doubt anyone will be able to get this deal unless you camp out early at Costco. There are only going to be like what 15 a store. Is it even a deal anymore? Say it takes a couple of hours of camping out early to ensure you get one. Most people make what, $100 an hour. That's $200 (in time) + $400 (for the monitor) = $600. Not much of a deal.

David

Did you say a $100 an hour and did you also say most people ??????

What do you do ??

 

[brab]

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
I'm just a joe average programmer. Actually I make a lot less than a whole lot of people I know. I tend to take a year or two off at a time. That pretty much resets the salary clock. I also tend to pick jobs that are more interesting but less lucrative. The job I'm at pays about half what my highest offer was.

Is $100 all that much? How can you afford to buy a house on less? What's the median price of a house now? 600K or so. That's for a run down fixer upper. I looked at a couple of 2 bedroom condos and they were 700K. A decent house is at least a million. I was reading in the local college newspaper that starting salaries are 92 to 100K a year now. That's about $50 an hour. That's for a know nothing college punk who needs a few years of training to get productive.

David

you must be living in a dream world buddy....that's all I gotta say....for about everything you say....
for the latter thing please check monster.com or something like that for salaries...you will be deeply dissapointed....

 

[Corporate Thug]

LOL, $100 an hour results in $160,000 year assuming 40 hours a week and 4 weeks off for vaction, sick days, etc...


edit: on a side note, i think it is quite easy to get in on this deal if you get to costco when it opens, i dont think there are going to be too many people there in the morning looking to spend $475 on a LCD ($440 + tax)

 

[Abrasive]

Amazing what some people think these days.

 

[GreatBambino]

100/hr .. jeez show me the job.. or 50/hr i wouldn't mind something like that at all...we are talking american money right?

 

[willboxer]

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
I'm just a joe average programmer. Actually I make a lot less than a whole lot of people I know. I tend to take a year or two off at a time. That pretty much resets the salary clock. I also tend to pick jobs that are more interesting but less lucrative. The job I'm at pays about half what my highest offer was.

Is $100 all that much? How can you afford to buy a house on less? What's the median price of a house now? 600K or so. That's for a run down fixer upper. I looked at a couple of 2 bedroom condos and they were 700K. A decent house is at least a million. I was reading in the local college newspaper that starting salaries are 92 to 100K a year now. That's about $50 an hour. That's for a know nothing college punk who needs a few years of training to get productive.

David

Originally posted by: teKillah

Originally posted by: puppyfriend
Coupons are out in mass today. The ID checker was handing them out to everyone that was coming in.

Just get the membership, buy the monitor and then get a full refund on your membership. You can cancel the membership anytime within a year and get the refund.

I doubt anyone will be able to get this deal unless you camp out early at Costco. There are only going to be like what 15 a store. Is it even a deal anymore? Say it takes a couple of hours of camping out early to ensure you get one. Most people make what, $100 an hour. That's $200 (in time) + $400 (for the monitor) = $600. Not much of a deal.

David

Did you say a $100 an hour and did you also say most people ??????

What do you do ??

100 bucks an hour? and you're making less than most ppl you know?? where do you live, your area must have little competition in the computer field, but then again you said a house cost 600K, so i'll assume you live in California.

well, ppl making around 100K a year in california are considered very well off, i don't see how an "average" programmer can be making 100 bucks an hour, it'd have to be more professional than just an average joe programmer..

do you get a kick out of lying about your salary? just curious. a yes or no answer would be fine, or perhaps even a maybe.

 

[willboxer]

Originally posted by: GreatBambino
100/hr .. jeez show me the job.. or 50/hr i wouldn't mind something like that at all...we are talking american money right?

yeah seems a bit too good to be true, that's 4000 a week

and if that's what you make, you should have enough money to stop coming to anandtech for any hot deals

see, i on the other hand is a poor 21 year old student, who is in great need of hot deals! stop competing with me!

 

[Abrasive]

He could hire me to surf for good deals and I would find the deals and he buys 2 gives one to me and writes it off as a donation to charity.....

 

[rickon66]

Perhaps puppyfriend full of puppy poo?

 

[teKillah]

My friend works for a big hi-tech firm and I think is working for about 7 years in IT and also has a Masters Degree

and I know he dosent make anything close to $100.00/hr, even if you consider gross wages

Most IT jobs even in the silicon valley pay about 70-80K avg. tops and believe me out-of-college peeps find it hard even to get to about 55K during their first year.

100/hr was 3 years ago during the era of gym-in-the-office, stock-options, bmw-as-joining-bonus et al. A couple of those 100/hr peeps are now picketing in front of Albertsons fighting for health care and minimum wages.

I personally know a Nurse who switched careers to take up a 80K IT job during the boom, didnt last long and is back now to her 37K original job

 

[puppyfriend]

Well you see, that's the problem. The nurse who switched to IT is definitely back to the 37K a year job. That was lunacy to begin with. I ran into plenty of those during the "boom". The best thing they could do for the company was just sit still and not interfere. Professional programmers, real programmers not your MBA who took up programming, still command those salaries. If you think that programmers top out at 70-80K in the valley, then you are grossly being taken advantage of.

Yes this is in California. 100K/year is hardly well off out here. Just based on housing costs alone. 100K here is like 50K in many parts of the country. More like 30K in some.

Oh, about those Monster salary surveys. There are a lot of "programmers" who make about $10 an hour. These stellar "programmers" even read the first chapter of a C++ book before they got hired. Why is programming so much like rap? Everyone thinks they can do it.

David

Originally posted by: teKillah
My friend works for a big hi-tech firm and I think is working for about 7 years in IT and also has a Masters Degree

and I know he dosent make anything close to $100.00/hr, even if you consider gross wages

Most IT jobs even in the silicon valley pay about 70-80K avg. tops and believe me out-of-college peeps find it hard even to get to about 55K during their first year.

100/hr was 3 years ago during the era of gym-in-the-office, stock-options, bmw-as-joining-bonus et al. A couple of those 100/hr peeps are now picketing in front of Albertsons fighting for health care and minimum wages.

I personally know a Nurse who switched careers to take up a 80K IT job during the boom, didnt last long and is back now to her 37K original job

 

[Silex]

Hah, maybe we should get back "on task" here. Makes me think that this wasn't a hot deal to begin with!

 

[Corporate Thug]

on a side note for people who dont have costco memberships, there is a PM oppertunity with staples.

most will PM the BEFORE rebate price of $340 but the 110% PM means they'll take another $16 off and there is a printable instore coupon for 15 off 75 that can be found at our favorite coupon site

so the total will be $409 + tax, $9 more than costco but you dont have to worry about a REBATE and you dont have to pay for a costco membership if you dont already have one

 

[JaydenChris]

Originally posted by: shady06
on a side note for people who dont have costco memberships, there is a PM oppertunity with staples.

most will PM the BEFORE rebate price of $340 but the 110% PM means they'll take another $16 off and there is a printable instore coupon for 15 off 75 that can be found at our favorite coupon site

so the total will be $409 + tax, $9 more than costco but you dont have to worry about a REBATE and you dont have to pay for a costco membership if you dont already have one

THanks for the second option...

If Costco runs out ... I'll be headin' over to Staples

 

[quikser]

Which coupon site?

Also, the manager at my Staples thought he could match the pre rebate price. I guess we'll see what he can do tomorrow...

Naturally, he didn't talk about the 110% matching, and I wonder if I bring it up if he would bother.

I dunno, maybe its just worth me going to Costco

Originally posted by: shady06
on a side note for people who dont have costco memberships, there is a PM oppertunity with staples.

most will PM the BEFORE rebate price of $340 but the 110% PM means they'll take another $16 off and there is a printable instore coupon for 15 off 75 that can be found at our favorite coupon site

so the total will be $409 + tax, $9 more than costco but you dont have to worry about a REBATE and you dont have to pay for a costco membership if you dont already have one

 

[quikser]

Also,

the one thing the Staples guy seemed to "weasel" on was the model number... Costco does not publish the model number on theri coupon. I did argue the point with him that Envision only makes one 19in LCD.

So, that might be something to watch for incase your local staples trys to get out of matching. The manager at my Staples did agree that Envision makes only a single 19in LCD. So, at any rate, I'll call him tomorrow. He wanted to check out on his end and cover his butt...

hehe.

 

[Abrasive]

Yeah coupons everywhere. They are handing them out as you go in now and the baskets are filled with them as people leave.