I got one of these monitors last week. I ordered it on Tuesday night, and it was at my local DHL by Thursday morning! The "expected delivery date" was listed as Monday, and DHL decided to just hold on to it until Monday morning. :roll:
I also ordered a 100-pack spindle of Maxell CDRs to get free shipping. PCConnection sent me a spindle that looks like it was dropped and the base of the spindle package was crushed and won't hold the cover. I don't think it was damaged in shipping because the base of the spindle was wrapped in packing tape. None of the CDs are damaged, so I suppose it doesn't matter, but I'm surprised that PCConnection would send something in that condition.
The LCD has no bad pixels, and I'm pretty happy with it. This is my first LCD, and it's not even for me. I'm taking this one to Taiwan to replace the wife's 14 or 15-inch LCD. I'm just using it in the meantime to check it out. I've been playing Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, and things look great.
I've been using a 19-inch CRT for years at 1920x1200. This LCD was initially giving me that resolution but everything was looking like crap. After rebooting the PC, it seems I'm now limited to 1280x1024. Everything looks fine now, but I'd prefer the higher resolution. So, is this the deal with LCDs? I need to use it at the max resolution or lower and can't force it higher?
I've un-clicked the "use DDC information" in the monitor properties sub-menu of the displays properties, and I've set the max resolution (available) to 1920x1200, but I the slider bar for screen resolution is still limited to 1280x1024.
I suppose it's temporary anyway, but I'll need to look into this more before buying an LCD for myself.