Product Reviews: Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW and ViewSonic VP231wb LCD Displays

PC World has the skinny on a couple of startling high-end LCD displays available to home users. If you’re looking to add a little elegance to your desktop or perhaps looking for a quality LCD to make the switch to from an old reliable CRT, or even if you’re just looking for a nice upgrade or gift to give yourself (or your favorite TechTV fan-blogger) then look no further!

I managed to pick up a Dell Ultrasharp 2001fp a couple of months ago when they were on sale, and I can testify to it’s brilliance, even for gaming the thing is fantastic and the response time is low enough that I don’t see ghosting in my favorite videogames. The Dell Ultrasharp 2405fpw (a full 24-inches widescreen, using actually the same LG display part that Apple uses in it’s 23-inch displays) is a few steps up and from my first hand impressions with one, it’s an absolutely fabulous monitor. Built-in USB hub and multimedia card reader, multiple inputs (DVI and VGA, of course, but there’s also S-Video, and Component), and a simply brilliant screen make for a lovely desk piece. Huge, but lovely, it’ll definitely take up a bit of space, but the actual footprint is small enough because the stand is much smaller than the breadth the monitor takes up while standing. Definitely a quality display, and with all the insane sales that Dell has had on it’s monitors and various electronics lately, the $1200 dollar price tag (which is already impressively cheap for a monitor of this size and quality) is likely to drop quite a bit if you catch it at the right time.

Regardless, don’t just take my word for it, and also see PCWorld’s impressions of the ViewSonic VP231wb:
[ http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120529,tk,prx,00.asp ]