We bought two Benq FP931 19" LCD monitors today for our company, and are very pleased with them. They take up much less space than the Sony Multiscan E400 19" CRTs that we had been using. They also use less than half the energy.
The monitors are very bright and sharp, and neither appears to have any "dead" pixels.
I like the fact that the 1280 X 1024 resolution is spread out onto an effective 19" of screen compared to the effective 18" (diagonally) on the Sony monitors. That means fonts appear a bit larger, which is great as my eyes enter middle age :-).
With a $50 rebate, the Benqs were $488, a huge drop in a few years. My mother bought a 19" Dell LCD screen a couple of years ago for over $1,000.
I was also shocked to go back into my records and see that we had paid $729 each for the Sony monitors nearly five years ago. Most 19" CRT monitors are in the $200 range now. Yet we got our money's worth from the Sony monitors. Their 1280 X 1024 resolution enabled much more efficient working than the 1024 X 768 17" monitors they replaced.
Now I'm waiting for 20-21" 1600 X 1200 LCD monitors to drop in price!
Posted by Paul at December 3, 2004 06:42 PM