Cheap LCD monitor for Latitutde E6410

I'd like to get a 20" or 21" monitor that can do 1440x900 on my Latitude. Anyone suggest a cheap route?

 

I've only ever bought EIZO CRTs and LCDs and it's been awhile because they last. Quality built products... worth a look even if only to benchmark what you might buy elsewhere.

GK

 

Ultrasharp U2211H?

 

A 20" monitor will usually run at 1680x1050. Check the Dell Outlet for great deals.

 

Forget about 16:10 monitors. We now live in a 16:9 world. As far as brands, I'd advise you to buy from a bricks and mortar store. Look before you buy, but keep in mind that you want to shop at a store with a lenient returns policy if you get a monitor with dead pixels.

 

16:10 is a better format for business use. 16:9 is completely irrelevant except for the fact that it's the aspect ratio of movies. The height of 16:9 screens is so low that it actually hampers productivity (more vertical scrolling, or smaller full-size view). Desk space is usually limited in width and not height, so 16:10 is more space-efficient as well.

Brick-and-mortar stores are usually the worst place to get electronics. Not only are prices higher, but products usually only have one-year warranties, typically requiring shipping the monitor back to the manufacturer. If you get a Dell LCD (new or from outlet), you'll not only be able to use DisplayPort, but can also get extended warranties and NBD service (had to use it on my 24" for decreasing brightness...definately worth it).

In additional, DOA pixels are rare, they generally start occuring after some use (typically a year or two).

 

I'm not arguing over the advantages of 16:10, just that the market has shifted. You can find 16:10 monitors, but the selection is lousy and decreasing.

I can guarantee you that you can find cheaper monitors at the local big-box store, if you wait for the deals. Discounts count, sometimes, and things get really interesting with coupons, trade-ins and rebates. Sorry Dell, but when it comes to monitors, you've been undercut by your own resellers.

In addition, DisplayPort isn't a big selling point for anything. It's cheap and royalty free, which only matters to the manufacturer. I'd rather have HDMI or DVI - and as shocking as it might seem, old fashioned VGA supports any resolution.

Personally, I think Dell is just being cheap when they put a DisplayPort on high end business laptops. Great, Dell saves a few pennies by using a royalty free DisplayPort rather than a useful HDMI. The big joke is that Dell wouldn't dare pull that sort of crap with a consumer quality notebook but gets away with it on high end business notebooks.

Not true. I've had dead pixels straight out of the box - and I've returned displays and computers for precisely that reason. Warranties typically exclude small numbers of dead pixels, which is precisely why it's best to shop and brick-and-mortar stores with lenient return policies.

 

Apple puts one video connector on their Macbook Pro... DisplayPort. Is that funny or sad? A little research shows that a lot of OEMs are supporting DisplayPort.

If you are buying the cheapest consumer displays you can find from the cheapest channel and getting dead pixels out-of-the-box, then the manufacturer is shipping dead pixels by design. The consumer decides whether or not it is worth buying such quality from such channels. If you want a specific product once, it may be worth playing the game, but if you need to source certain quality by volume, being able to return defective product for defective product is no consolation. Plus brick stores tend to stock and market product to the uniformed.

GK

 

The reason why DisplayPort is used in business is because every single high end monitor now-a-days uses many connections, and DispayPort is the best.

The U2211H/U2311H are not sold by resellers and are typically sold directly from Dell. Albeit you can find them on ebay for cheaper.

My recommendation is to wait for the Dell U2211H/U2311H (or HP ZR22W)to go on sale for under $250 shipped and get on of those. There is not a better monitor for the price.
They are eIPS panels, so viewing angles are good. Color accuracy out of the box is better then every TN panel, and Image Qualtiy is second to none in the $300 price range or lower. That is unless you go used PVA/S or H IPS panels but even those can easily go for over $400 used.

The monitors found in brick/mortar stores for the most part are utter junk.

Let me know if there's any questions about monitors:
Check out tftcentral.co.uk for professionally done reviews on the monitors I recommended. Personally they are my #1 go to source after AnandTech has been showing a bit of bias for Apple's products (claiming ignorance to avoid talking bad about Apple's products).

EDIT: Don't bring up the 16:9/ 16:10 argument, it 120 vertical pixels do not make me pay $200-$300 for a 1200P inferior monitor when I can get a better quality monitor or a monitor with her resolution for the same price or under it. I've had both 16:10/ 16:9, I show no preference to either. Some complain about scrolling more, but the truth is if your really scrolling that much then there is a lot of content meaning you aren't scrolling much as no one can take in information from 1 page in such a short time.
It's like saying "OMG This book is shorter then the other book! One has 1080 words, and the other 1200 words oh noes the page turning. Seriously, who can read a page that quickly that isn't skimming and would run into scrolling issues whether using a 1200p or 1080p screen?

Image quality is not impacted at all to the naked eye. While the pixel loss is significant@ 10% pixel loss, due to the size of the screen being bigger on the 16:10 display it actually doesn't offer much in terms of pii or dot pitch. The differences in percentages are around 2.8% difference which is insignificant for an often $150 price difference.

Anyways. yeah.

 

I'm very happy with a Dell E2009W (20" 1680 x 1050).

John