Monitor specs

wallbash

Not a trip to the opticians

But I thought I would treat myself to a new monitor ( Santa let me down)

Thinking of spending £100 to £150
Size about 22 inch
( must have built in speakers ... keeps the desk clutter down)

What else should I look for ??

Not interested in gaming , used for running MS Office and surfing the web

Any ideas gratefully received.

totalsolutions

Your budget is too low. Samsung are ok. 24" or more, even two identical monitors is really nice, but just a tad over £150 though. Speakers can be mounted UNDER the desk.


Check your video card output can do 1680 dpi or much higher, for the wide real estate. No good having a 30" beast at 2450 dpi when your card only does 1280. IPS monitors are the best but of course out side your budget >£500

scottishblondie

totalsolutions you must be a total technophile! why on earth would you want 2 monitors or a 30" display for just browsing and using office?!

22" is perfectly sufficient. I would also recommend samsung, although for one of their ones £150 may be slightly on the low side. they are probably more around the 175-200 mark.

scottishblondie

PS - bought the Samsung P2270HD last week for £199. It's also a full HD 22" freeview television. Has DVI, VGA and HDMI connections, and built in speakers. Looks lovely and the picture is beautiful. Might be worth a look if you can be a bit more flexible with your budget.

totalsolutions

>totalsolutions you must be a total technophile
Thats why I'm here!
Two is better than one. Most pros and senior office people would use two screens, no big deal really. Do more work, and just pure real estate.

turbobob

Theres an Iiyama 22" monitor with DVI here http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Displays/Monitors/TFT+20+-+23/22%22+Iiyama+Prolite+E2208HDS+Full+HD+16%3A9+Widescreen+Monitor+?productId=34004 or a cheaper one with analogue VGA only on the same site. I think they are fairly decent monitors.

I'm using a couple of Philips SW9 22" monitors that cost me £100 each and they are great for my purposes (running a few instances of a browser and Quotetracker etc at the same time, and maybe the odd game) but they don't have speakers. I would recommend a digital DVI connection rather than VGA if possible, as in my experience the image is normally clearer.

GunJack

wallbash - look at ebuyer and misco, both have some reasonable 22" monitors within your budget, 'coz I've been looking a them earlier for someone else

sillygoose

My very strong vote is for the 22" Asus VH222H, not only is it attractive, it has excellent performance and value, on board speakers not too bad either. Importantly it has the features of full HD resolution and an HDMI input, you may not need this now but it 'future proofs' the monitor a bit as you will be able to connect many things to it apart from a PC, such as Blueray DVD player.

I got mine from Amazon when it was at a crazy price but best I found it today and on your budget was here:
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=33213&tid=frooct

wallbash

Many thanks will look at all suggestions

Looking last night found this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/HannsG-Widescreen-Monitor-1680x1050-Speakers/dp/B000W05LI4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1262363785&sr=1-2


But have an open mind .

Ps Did think that the orig reply from totalsolutions was a 'touch' over the top

wallbash

Follow up question , please.

My computer has a DVI port and all the monitors are DVI enabled.
Will I require a new lead ?? or an adapter to switch between the blue VGA to the new DVI white port??


With a question like that :rotfl: you would not guess that I assembled my first computer and the OS was win 3.1
But its time to move from VGA

Inactive

Depending on the brand of monitor, many arrive with both VGA and DVI leads, but not all brands supply both leads, check before buying, My Dell Monitor came with both.