Hey all 21" Monitor Users!

[LuciferHaze]

If you own a 21" monitor, then please answer the next questions:
1.- Brand.
2.- Model.
3.- Resolution U R Using and Why?.
4.- Number of color U R Using.
5.- Refresh Rate (Hz).
6.- And at least but not last; what is great about your monitor and what is not so great?.

 

[nitrousninja]

Bump cuz I'm in the market for a 21" monitor as well. 1200NF or G500(20)

 

[JackBurton]

I've got a 21" Sony CPD-G500 and it is AWESOME! I love this thing! I have my desktop set at 1280x1024x32 and set my refresh rate to 85Hz (my Hollywood decoder card doesn't like anything over 85Hz). However, when I play games like Madden 2001, I run the game at 1600x1200x32 and it looks AWESOME! I went from a 17" to my 21" and the first time I sat in front of it, it looked like I was looking at a movie screen. It took awhile to get using to the size but I managed.

 

[mlaine]

1. Sony
2. F500R
3. 1920x1440 (generous area for surfing and for multiple programs)
4. 32 bit color depth
5. 75 Hz (limited by Prophet III)
6. Great: godlike sharpness, flat tube, color balance and 0.22 dot pitch, excellent controls
Not-so-great: slight geometry distortions at the edges, expensive

 

[Big Lar]

Iiyama Vision Master Pro 502
1024/768, because my Old tired eyes can't see the small text
32 Bit
85hz
Good Price/ Great clarity, dependable Monitor. Monitor adjustments are a tad hard to adjust, other than that, I'd buy another,no prob.

 

[Goi]

1) Nokia
2) 445Xpro
3) 1600x1200 coz the size is just right, 1280x1024 isn't 4:3 and any higher my eyes will suffer(words are too small and blurry)
4) 32bit color(24bit actual colors or 16.7M colors)
5) 80Hz
6) What's great is that it was cheap, its huge(previous monitor was a 17&quot and has relatively good specs and image quality. Nokia support was also excellent(sent me free BNC cables just with an email request). What's not so great is that the screen is comparatively very curvy(especially when compared to AG monitors), image quality isn't up there with the tops, but still decent. Also, Nokia has shut down its monitor department, which means less support I guess.

 

[kylebisme]

1. Ibm
2. p260 (g500 tube)
3. 1600x1200 usauly because 1920x1440 is too small for some stuff.
4. 32 bit color depth
5. 85 Hz
6. great: huge, flat, prety, dual inputs, prerfict image geomety and the fact that i pricematched staples saveing over $500 on what they wanted for the monitor
not so great: ummm, heavy and hard to move around i guess.

 

[nicowju]

1. Viewsonic
2. P225F
3. 1920x1440... lots of area for stuff (i.e.-3D modelling, programming, etc)
4. 32-bit
5. 75Hz (limited by video card)
6. Its flat, it has very nice picture quality. Good sharpness. Bad part... none, really

 

[nicowju]

oops forgot other monitor

1. Gateway (but its really a rebadged Mitsubishi)
2. VX1120 (but if its Mitsubishi, its one of the Diamondtron ones)
3. 1600x1200... Linux drivers for the video card are a bit funky
4. 32-bit
5. 85Hz... should be able to go higher, but like I said, video drivers are funky
6. It's flat, it's a Diamondtron, its huge, and it has really really nice image quality. Not so nice stuff... dual inputs but both are DB15... No BNC

 

[mitaiwan82]

1) NEC
2) MultiSync FP1350
3) 1280x1024 cuz 1600x1200 is small for me and little fuzzy on the GF2
4) 32-bit
5) 85Hz
6) It's huge...got it refurbed from tigerdirect back in May. The bottom right corner is a little fuzzy, but other than that it's all good.

Ping

 

[Remedy]

Mitsubishi
Diamond Pro2040U
1600x1280, easy on the eyes, thnx to the V5
16bit, no need since the basic eye can't tell the difference when surfing.
85mhz
I Love it all around(i paid 650 for it), Front USB ports on the monitor, Dual system intergration. One Bnc connection and one 15pin connection. I use one for my server and other on my main workstation. What i hate is that, its so heavy and i am so weak

 

[Edman]

Hey LuciferHaze WTF R U Using my post text for yours??
hehe (just kidding)Is really nice to see somemone using my text even better considering my poor english.

(I'm Mexican)

Regards!!

 

[biguc]

1) Nokia
2) 445Pro
3) 1800x1440 - Perfect colors and clarity with my g400
4) 32 bit
5) 85 Hz
6) Reasonably cheap, flat tube (trinitron), plenty of controls - only thing i miss is a second connector (BNC), but picture is very crisp and clear with great color saturation

 

[kwango]

Sony
g500
1600*1200. Reasons... web surfing, development, games and mega deskspace
32bit
85hz
excellent for text but my mitsubishi plus 91 beats it for colour vibrancy

(prefer the Radeon to my G400. The G400 has more umph but the text is slightly heavier which doesnt suit my eyes)

 

[Boogak]

1.- IBM
2.- P260
3.- 1280x960 (1600x1200 makes the fonts too small, 1280x1024 is a funky screen ratio, 1024x768 makes fonts too big)
4.- 32bbp
5.- 100hz
6.- Trinitron tube is awesome. It's also got dual inputs so I can switch from my PC to my Dreamcast on a VGA box. The only downside I can think of is how damn heavy it is.

 

[Searching]

Sony
G500
1600*1200. Clear sharp text, easy to read, and plenty of space for TV window and web browser.
32bit
85hz

I really love this monitor.

At work I have a 17" Gateway and it is so dim at high resolutions that I have to keep the office lights off to really use it. When I go home to the G500 my eyes are so much happier.

 

[Keltron]

just one humble questiosn luzifer, why answer the questions. are you writign an article or something

 

[nam ng]

1._ 7 or 8 yrs old can't remember exactly, 21" Hitachi.
2._ Custom gold standard monitor.
3._ 1600x1200 because this the resolution it was intended for, not for games, vid card too slow.
4._ 32bit desktop.
5._ 75Hz
6._ Exacting color accuracy, 100% gamma 126 Lux, 50% gamma 65.3 Lux, 0% gamma 1.31 Lux. Only problem of having single VSYNC setting of 75Hz, causing extra work modifying graphic drivers for every update, and no pure DOS mode because of scrambled display without 60Hz VSYNC, when net browsing I'm forced to use 1024x768x75, don't want to keep switching resolutions because so many sites can't set the display page correctly.


$38K US to GE Medical Systems.

 

[Shmorq]

I got mine around 5 years ago...

1.- Viewsonic
2.- P815
3.- 1600x1200 since I want a lot of desktop space
4.- 24-bits
5.- 85 Hz
6.- It's unbelievably sharp and clear. However, it costed a bundle at the time of purchase, and it's over 70 lbs!!

 

[badluck]

oh, wait.....please include the price you paid as well and when you purchased it....thanks!!

 

[Remedy]

Firesale.com and tigerdirect.com

 

[DARRIN]

Sony GDM-500PS. 85Hz. 10X7X32. This monitor is a couple of years old and does not have a perfectly flat screen but it is close. I think it is awesome.

 

[JackBurton]

I paid $1000+ for my Sony CPD-G500 and you can get it now for a little over $700! :|

 

[thephew]

1.- Sony
2.- Dunno, came with a Dell, but its 19.8" viewable Trinitron AG
3.- 1280x1024x32: can cram alot on screen, but still read text
4.- ^
5.- 100...although anything over 85 looks same to me
6.- Good-big, vertically flat and 95% horizontally flat, sharp picture
Bad-glare is always a prob, can never seem to get brightness/contrast on one setting that looks good for everything (contrast never seems good enough when browsing internet, although games look awesome)

 

[k0w]

Its not a 21", but does a Lumens 300" Plasma screen count ?