Cheap LCD monitor for Latitutde E6410

Discontinued.

 

Apple products typically have poor connectivity.

Every manufacturer ships out displays with bad pixels, regardless of price category. It's pretty telling that Dell typically only has a "premium panel guarantee" against bad pixels on certain upgraded displays for notebooks.

 

It all comes down to nickle and diming the consumer. DisplayPort saves a few cents on royalties, although it costs the consumers $10-20 for HDMI or DVI adapters.

Not true. Both are sold by Resellers. I'd avoid buying Dell products on Ebay because many listings are actually for refurbished units purchased at the Dell Outlet.

That's not cheap, that's stupidly expensive. Of course, the last time I bought a monitor, the initial retail price fell into that category, but I had a really unique, one time deal for less than half that. Couldn't have done it online.

The big joke here is that as a savvy shopper, I've paid far less for monitors at bricks and mortar stores than online. For monitors, shipping is costly.

 

The premium panel guarantee is usually used for dead pixels occuring later in the product life. I have yet to see a new laptop, Latitude or Inspiron, that ships with dead pixels.

To bring things back on topic, I found a 19" 1440x900 Dell monitor, the E1909W or E1910. They can also be found in the Dell Outlet for even less.

DELL Dell 1909W, Professional Series, 19-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor : Monitors | Dell

DELL Dell E1910 19-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor : Monitors | Dell

Some of the newer displays only show how incapable the 16:9 format is. A 20" 16:10 is 1680x1050, and a 20" 16:9 is 1600x900. That is totally unacceptable at less than 1000 pixels high.

 

It happens with every brand, hence the dead pixel disclaimer.

Not exactly stellar values. Low res, low end monitors and 19" is on the small side.

If there is some specific reason why the OP needs 1440x900, then these would work, although they hardly qualify as a good deal on any level.

Yes, 900P is unacceptable for an external monitor. Still, there's nothing wrong with 16:9. It's the universal standard.

 

So Apple and Dell and Lenova etc. offer DisplayPort over HDMI to ensure poor connectivity? That's sad, not funny.

GK

 

You are right I am sure that motive is to save money but that doesn't defer from Display ports superiority. Display Port allows for nearly double the bandwidth of HDMI 1.4.
It also allows for less "lag" due to it not requiring a controller on the monitor's part. It goes straight from GPU to Display, no need for controllers like in DVI/VGA/HDMI's case.
USB up/downstream etc etc etc You can see all the benefits of DP.

Also if you haven't noticed just about even new gpu comes with Display port in desktops. Professionally DisplayPort is a must widely, see professional monitors ($1,000~)

1. Indeed they are but the prices are often not better then Dell.com's prices because of Dell's constant sales. Yeah I wouldn't like to buy from Ebay either unless the vendor's rep is rock solid and the price is drastically lower.
2. No that is cheap considering your getting an IPS panel for under $250 new.
3. Sure on cheap crappy TN panels, in which case I can guarantee you got ripped off even if you paid less then online there are always better monitors for the price and those you have to go online for.. Good luck finding true quality panels at brick/mortar stores. You'd have to go to video professional stores to get good quality LCD's (IPS/VA variants, etc) and when you do you'll rather go online..

You can buy a whole lot of nothing. Or buy a little of something. That's what it comes down to with LCD's

He meant that even Apple's flagship monitors (Nearly $1,000 monitors) only have one port. mini-display port which is not common at all and even with an adapter becomes very troublesome on PC's due to lack of brightness control without breaking a few international laws..

Dell/Lenovo typically offer DVI/VGA/Display Port on their low end. In fact just about every manufacturer of low end monitors do.

On Flagship monitors ($450-a few thousand) Dell offers: VGA/DVI/HDMI/Display Port/Component/Coax/bunch of other stuff... Other high end monitor manufacturers offer similar connectivity to the Dell.

Thus the conclusion is: Apple offers the most limited connectivity in their LCD monitors.

 

I think we've done a good job of dispelling the troll.

Apple is never a good example to use for anything. Their computers don't (and couldn't) really compete with the rest of the market.

 

I was thinking they were a good argument... an outlier conforming in this instance to the market.

GK

 

Except they're not conforming to the market. They are "outliers". They are locking down their monitors to Mac's.