Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Product Review: Princeton Senergy17 Super-Inexpensive 17-inch LCD Monitor
Here's an interesting review submitted by a RealtechNews reader who goes by the screen name: "Kingrat." Goofy name aside, his quest was simple: To find a good quality LCD display with DVI input. Would you believe he got one for $234 after rebate?

Here's a bit from his review:

As I approach 50, my eyes were beginning to dislike reading text on a CRT type monitor, even a pretty decent one, so I began looking for an inexpensive LCD that had a DVI input.

This is a nice, inexpensive dual input DVI/Analog 17" monitor. It has a response time of 16MS, so movies and games look great. It seems to change resolutions better than many LCDs I have used, including the one at work. Native resolution is the usual 1280X1024.

Both height and angle are adjustable. The controls are very hard to read in normal light, but I haven't had to touch mine in weeks, so who cares? The border is a little thicker than the top of the line LCDs, not a big deal IMO.

I had never really heard of Princeton since the old phone book sized Computer Shopper magazine ads. A kid I work with had bought one and I talked him into bringing it to work, so I could check it out. A few minutes after he turned it on, I was in New Egg, ordering one. It came a few days later, well packed, and in perfect condition. Mine has no dead pixels and looks as good as a friend's $500 NEC he bought last year.

Three of us have them now, only one has any dead pixels, and it's almost at the very top right hand corner, and it's black, so it's hardly noticeable. Colors look great, text is razor sharp. Read the Rest of the Review Here

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