Dell to offer 24" WS for $1200 on March 1st

[Helevitia]

Hmmm ... dual 23" and 24" WS DVI LCDs.

Wonder what the wife will say (sitting next to me).

If a deal looks to good to be true, then ...

Except that it IS true as many people have already ordered the monitor for $860. People thought the deal would be done by now but if you talk to the right rep at Dell, they will still hook you up.

[xortam]

Gotta head off to bed now, but ... How long is this deal good for? I don't have the room in the HT for another monitor but I could put it in my office for the old desktop machine; the 'ol 17" NEC 5FG is finally starting to show its age.

[Helevitia]

Gotta head off to bed now, but ... How long is this deal good for? I don't have the room in the HT for another monitor but I could put it in my office for the old desktop machine; the 'ol 17" NEC 5FG is finally starting to show its age.

That's the problem, the deal was supposed to end a few days back but some reps continue to honor the deal, so you need to call the number posted above and hope it still works.

[xortam]

My Dad's interested in one of these now. He's a Mac user. Do you know if there's any compatibility problems with a Mac. I'm not sure what video cards he has in his machines (including iBook laptop) and he's about to buy yet another G4.

I'll look into this more later. Hope the deal's still available.

[xortam]

Dell product pages (good place to start):

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?sku=320-4221&c=us&l=en&cs=19&category_id=6198&first=true&page=productlisting.aspx

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/monitors/topics/en/monitor_feature?c=us&cs=RC956904&l=en&s=hied

Here's the AVS thread on this monitor, including user feedback. There are many useful links in that thread.

ExtremeTech review

Reportedly a Samsung display:



Video card compatibility

User Guide

User's attempt at judging black level quality:

http://home.nyc.rr.com/kilmar/pics2/flash.jpg

http://home.nyc.rr.com/kilmar/pics2/unflash.jpg

[xortam]

Someone on AVS said EPP (Employee Purchase Plan) folks and Dell partners are getting this monitor for somewhere under $800.

Here's some good detailed user feedback on the display.

A Mac user has a site showing many pics, including the unopened shipping box (some people are very concerned on how things are shipped).

[borat]

anyone know if a parhelia can drive one of these through DVI?

[PAugustin]

no problem for a Parhelia, even P650 and P750 would do very well.
The only "consumer" monitor that cannot be driven by a Parhelia is the Apple 30" AFAIK

[Paddy]

Anyone in the UK found a good deal on this? I am afer a LCD WS monitor

[mdhome]

Anyone in the UK found a good deal on this? I am afer a LCD WS monitor

Hi Paddy,
You could try ebay. Some of the US sellers with this product will ship to the UK. If you include delivery, it should be approx £600.


MD

[xortam]

This is a Dell product (apparently made in China).

[Wombat]

The 2005FPW, the 20" widescreen, is currently on sale for $500 in the States.

[Paddy]

The 24'' is £860 here and the 20" is £540 here

[xortam]

I haven't followed up on this since I posted all the info. Is this deal still being offered? I'll have to check the links when I get a chance. I didn't feel the need to jump on the purchase since it appeared that the price might have continued to drop in the short term.

I'm now thinking of setting up another HTPC with a HD tuner for the wife and this monitor would be used on that system. I already wanted to get a second HD tuner as a backup to mine since the Feds will soon be cracking down on the copy protection circuitry. I’ve got my HTPC tied up a lot of times with dubbing/editing work so it takes away from the wife being able to watch her shows. I also wanted a second tuner for networking record/playback of HD. The time seems ripe to go after this monitor now.

[Wombat]

http://forums.murc.ws/showpost.php?p=529515&postcount=13