nb88 Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 afternoon all,i want a TFT monitor as my desk is too small, been searching and found this:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B...5265723-3362325it's a 19" widescreen 1440x900 res. Looks very nice but im worried my computer might not handle it. For one thing, would windows look weird? Its not much taller than my current 17" with 10cm longer! Would everything just look rubbish? Also, on my GFX card at the moment, i have no 1440x900 setting with my nvidia geforce2. Would it appear when i got the monitor or is it not compatible?Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanie-b Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work mate, Go for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Looks good to me. I want a widescreen TFT. I was looking at the Dell 2000fpw which is 20", but is about £200 more. So you might have to assume that the Acer screen was a not very good for whatever reason. From that stats it looks OK, 8ms is good, so is 500:1. The only thing that is slightly bad is the analogue input, most monitors will give you a digital input (DVI) too. Although if you can't use it (And with a GeForce2, you probably can't), there's not really any point in worrying about that.I would look up some reviews for it, because I can't see any reason why you shouldn't go for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted January 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Yeah im not too worried about analogue, my gfx doesnt support DVI and the quality doesnt need to be perfect anyway. It all looks good, im just worried that everything will look stretched on my PC (the desktop and regular apps). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Windows will recognise the widescreeness and apply a resolution to suit so nothing will look stretched. The only thing that might be stretched is some games that don't support widescreen resolutions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted January 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Nice one cheers will probably order that beast then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted January 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Just went to order one, and found an offer of £120 each, new! So i ordered 2 dual 19" widescreen monitor anyone? anyone got any experience buying from new sellers on amazon? he has no feedback, one off seller, but amazon have a money back guarantee on buying from other sellers i believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeDotStuffAtOnzaDotCom Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) I hope you get what you wanted.I would love for you to get a bargain, no doubt, but once I tried to buy a webcam (nice Philips Toucam II Pro after some research) and Amazon had 'new and used from £19', against their ordinary prices of £38 and up from everywhere else. I bought one, and was very surprised to receive something completely different.The seller had quite a bit of feedback, too.On emailing the seller, he said I should read the description where it said first thing in capital letters 'NOT THE ITEM SHOWN (equivalent or better camera)' so this seller was selling something completely different off the back of what I wanted. I wasn't having any of that, so complained to Amazon, forwarding his email, and they did give me my money back after a couple of weeks and that seller's item disappeared from that webcam's 'new and used' section. The only contact I ever had from the seller was an email telling me to send it back to the following address... but then not including the address. Pity the webcam was a piece of shit. I felt a twat for following the automated process for buying an item, but normally I don't expect to have to read the description of something I am buying again (that's my excuse for not paying attention and I know it's not a good one).Anyway, getting back to the point, if you don't get what you expect or it turns out bad in some way, complain by email to the seller, then to Amazon and they most likely will sort you out. Not sure about the postage, though.My own experience was positive. Still don't have that webcam, though. Edited January 16, 2006 by BikeDotStuffAtOnzaDotCom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Cheers for the advice Just recieved an email from amazon - my payment has been cancelled due to the user being unable to accept payment or something. oh well, guessi ll have to buy it at full price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfboy Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 I was getting ready to slag it off... but the specs actually look quite good. I have recently just purchased a TFT monitor myself after much procrastination, I was waiting for a monitor with the technology that Laptops have (you know the glass fronted ones) but no one seemed to sell them. No one apart from Xerox... love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 No one apart from Xerox... love it!And THIS ONE. Looks awsome, but it ain't cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 While on the subject of computers, i want more ram in mine, i only have 384mb at the moment. I bought this pc off a mate and he says it has SDRAM. Is this the same as DDR SDRAM?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 And THIS ONE. Looks awsome, but it ain't cheap.Tomm that thing looks like its been made by a 2 year old with some sticky back plastic and paint Neovo ( http://www.neovo.com/ ) do glass fronted tft's we have a few hundred of them at uni all covered in fingerprints Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 I'm not sure I like the idea of having a reflective surface on the front of your computer screen. I'd just be annoying, non? Having said that, I saw a Compaq (?) notebook with one of those screens and the colour on it was fantastic, so vibrant. Not sure whether that's down to the glass or something else though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsy Jock Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 I'm not sure I like the idea of having a reflective surface on the front of your computer screen. I'd just be annoying, non? Having said that, I saw a Compaq (?) notebook with one of those screens and the colour on it was fantastic, so vibrant. Not sure whether that's down to the glass or something else though.I have one tis great but drains my laptops battery in no time, lasts at best half an hour now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted January 18, 2006 Report Share Posted January 18, 2006 Tomm that thing looks like its been made by a 2 year old with some sticky back plastic and paint Neovo ( http://www.neovo.com/ ) do glass fronted tft's we have a few hundred of them at uni all covered in fingerprints Jesus christ those screen's are horrible. Someone needs to be employed just to clean them on a regular basis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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