Iiyama Prolite E481S-S 19" TFT, £331 at eBuyer. For the same amount of cash, give or take, would you reccomend anything else? Not just for personal taste of course, for actual tech reasons. It will not be used for gaming, so that is not a concern.
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Iiyama Prolite E481S-S 19" TFT, £331 at eBuyer. For the same amount of cash, give or take, would you reccomend anything else? Not just for personal taste of course, for actual tech reasons. It will not be used for gaming, so that is not a concern.
Used that monitor in a desktop role and I really liked it. Have got nothing remotely negative I can say about it given the specs. Didn't notice any ghosting either with vga or dvi inputs and films and games played without any noticable effects, far better than my friend's allegedly quicker-response noname TFT.
Yeah, looks very nice indeed, so I'm just doing a few last checks, before I mark it down as a purchase. :)
The price is a bargain but if you're doing desktop work, make sure you can live with its screen properties.
Not sure if the E481-S uses the same panel, but I've got a E431-S which I had planned to used for desktop work. The problem that I found was that its colours and brightness/contrast ratios just didn't seem 'right' under any settings. Colours were either washed out or slightly radiactive and what seemed like acceptable brightness/contrast left my eyes aching after about 3 hours work. Settings that were good for one thing eg. video playback were awful for desktop work and vice versa. There was also slight fringing around text which is just a no no for reduced sized word documents (2 pages per 1 screen). It was great for videos/DVDs though - particuarly contrast/brightness - it was good at picking out detail in dark areas of the screen. Constantly changing settings based on the application was just an exercise in frustration.
In the end, I decided to use my Acer AL1731M as my main desktop/work monitor and the E431-S for video/DVD/occasional gaming, when based on tech specs, you'd expect the opposite to be true. The Iiyama does not use an AUO or Hydis panel.
Iiyama do have very good customer support though - both at presale and postsale stage they were incredibly helpful.
431 uses a totally different panel, that's a 16.2m one and the 481 is a 16.7m one.