I just bought myself a new 17″ Sony LCD, and I’m impressed! I’ve been eye-balling this model, due to it’s nice design and great specs, but had put it off as a future present to myself. Then, yesterday I found it had been discontinued at Staples, and was $350 less than I had seen it anywhere else. Needless to say, I bought it, much to the chagrine of my lovely girlfriend.
Other than a single stuck pixel (darn), this monitor is beautiful. It’s 500:1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m2 brightness is expressed in one of the widest color ranges I’ve seen in an LCD (compare to the apple 17″ LCD at 350:1 and 200 cd/m2). My 15″ Powerbook’s screen is seriously disgusting in comparison (see this pic – the Sony on the left, and my PB on the right). I just hope my new 12″ Powerbook’s screen compares better when it arrives.
[EDIT:] Did a little digging around, and found a $50 mail-in, too. That means I got the monitor for over 40% off the regular local price. Good deal! [/Edit]
How much did you pay for it? Hopefully not more than $500 because you can get it straight from sony for that. Nice monitor though 🙂
$547 Canadian (about $415 USD) – it’s selling for about $900 cdn in most stores around here, and $849 on Sony.ca.
is that picture taken from the real thing? coz the wallpaper look really alive
Those are sweet sets, we bought two of them a couple of months back. Great display quality and a cool packaged design.
Its really a nice monitor I bought the same two weeks ago. And I have the same dead pixel in the upper right corner of the screen.
My old Apple Studio 17″ CRT looks really blurry right to it..