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Summary: Good buy
Review: I use this monitor exclusively for gaming. It's hooked up via DVI-D to an nVidia GeForce FX 5950 card. I have nothing bad to say about the monitor's performance - the games I play look spectacular with it.I am used to a Sony Trinitron 19" CRT and now, when I look at the CRT alongside this Samsung LCD? The CRT looks terrible :) Best part of this Samsung LCD? The blacks are REALLY black. When I use xterms the clarity of the text is out of this world. If you can afford ~$1200, I really recommend this monitor to anyone.
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Summary: Great Bang for Buck
Review: I've owned this monitor for almost 3 months now and think its the best purchase I've made in a long time. The size of the monitor, the resolution, and the ability to rotate are just some of its great features. I use it for various reasons, but I was suprised how great it is with games. I play graphic intensive games and I notice absolutely no refresh rate problems that apply to many lcds. I notice no differece between it and my old crt's refresh rate. I researched buying a new large lcd and found that this was the best bang for the buck. You will especially enjoy it if you think, as I do, that Bigger is Better!
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Summary: Happy Customer
Review: I've owned this Samsung (213T) 21.3'' Flat-Panel LCD Monitor for about a month now, and think it is an excellent monitor! My display had one dead pixel that's out towards the edge and can't even be noticed unless you know where to look. For a screen this size that's damn good. I've read in some reviews that criticize the brightness, that concerned me a little. But once I received my monitor I found that it not only was plenty bright enough, but I had to turn it down from the default setting! You definitely want to use the digital connection for hook up, don't even think of hooking up to the analog connection. I've played a few games and DVD's and have noticed very minimal ghosting. I love the adjustability of the stand, you can just about put the screen at any angle or position your heart desires. All I can say is I don't know why I waited so long in purchasing this monitor it's just fantastic!
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Summary: Tip if used in 90-degree "portrait" mode
Review: Inasmuch as this monitor alone cost more than my last IBM computer system (including monitor and printer), I was highly critical of it the first couple weeks -- looking for dead pixels (none found) -- etc. I edit several newsletters in QuarkXpress and my eyesight is slowing failing. I bought this unit because of its nifty pivot-to-portrait-mode capability, a feature I value highly, and which reminded me of my old Macintosh Portait (monochrome) Monitor years ago, which I loved. Anyway, I was less than pleased at first with the sharpness of small fonts, when viewed in portrait mode: five lines were sharp, the next five line fuzzy, the next five were sharp, etc. In checking with Samsung's 1-800 technical support, a techie worked me through 20 minutes of fine adjustements until he suggesed I push the monitor's "Auto" button (I hadn't done so earlier, as I assumed incorrectly that it would merely discard all my fine adjustments are return to factory-preset defaults). But that did the trick! All type everywhere on the massive screen popped into equal sharpness, and now I'm 100 percent tickled with this unit and can recommend it to others.
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Summary: Big LCD Monitor at a Good Price
Review: The Samsung 213t is significantly cheaper than other 21.3" monitors, although it should be noted that you'll spend a lot less on a 20" monitor. So if you're looking at this one, you'd better value that extra inch. Should you? This depends on whether you like high pixel density or low pixel density. The 21.3" monitor yields about 94 dpi (dots per inch); a 20" monitor is more like 100 dpi. Some of the smaller 1600x1280 displays (especially for laptops) go above 120 and even 130 dpi, and some people prefer the high density, even though the text gets smaller. WinXP has a setting to increase font and dialog box sizes based upon the local dpi, but this is imperfect, since graphics, unlike fonts, are not resized. We can argue theory forever, but the essential question is, what do you find easiest on your eyes? For me, the lowest dpi is most comfortable, because it draws larger characters, but I know of people who prefer the high numbers. If you're like me and you want low dpi and a lot of screen real estate, this is your monitor, at least in 2004. (There's a wider model, the 243t (24"), but it costs about twice as much.) The 213t price has been dropping over the year (with periodic rebates!) and may drop farther, and this model may well be replaced before long.
With any modern LCD monitor, be sure to use the digital connection to a DVI video card. The digital connection assures that the monitor will display *exactly* what the PC intends. If you use the VGA analog connection, you'll be open for some smearing and ghosting.
The 213t has no frills (no speakers, no USB). Its response time (25 ms) isn't as fast as some other monitors, so it's not the optimal choice for gaming or video. But it's a sharp, clear, large display. For the market niche it fills, it's the best monitor at the best price.
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Summary: great monitor for certain uses, beware dead pixels
Review: This bright sharp screen when pivoted 90 degrees on its side is great for programming and reading large amounts of narrow column text. For a dual monitor workstation, I have this monitor with its DVI connection and another older flat panel with an analog connection both hooked up to an ATI Radeon 9600XT dual port video card, and used ATI's included software to set that up.
I ended up going to two different stores and carefully viewing five of these monitors before I could find one without any dead pixels. To look for that problem, make the screen all black and look for any green or red pixels that are stuck turned on. Then make the screen all white and look for little grey spots that don't show white.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This is a beautiful monitor--thin bevel, clear and sharp picture, etc. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Good monitor
Review: This is a reasonably good LCD , it does suffer on the analog connector somewhat, the text is a little softer than i'd like
I use mine in portrait mode 100% of the time and its great, the DVI input is pretty good, though i still see some noise, but for the price its really good. The software that comes with it for rotation is utter garbage, don't install it, it doesn't work well, the mouse goes crazy, no tech support, and it won't work with most laptops, use your video cards built in rotation instead if you have it, most ATIs and NVIDIAS have it, some of the ATI cards you have to tweak to switch the setting on, i did with my laptops 9000PRO. Altohugh my 21" trinitron was a much better picture ,i prefer the portrait and the desk space! .
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Summary: Good picture quality, not good for gamers
Review: This monitor has a truly amazing picture at 1600x1200, and the colors are great, too. With DVI, the picture is very stable and quite beautiful HOWEVER: If you are a hardcore gamer, pass this one up. Many people may disagree with this, but for me the ghosting is too noticeable and it is distracting and can actually detract from your gameplaying. For instance, if you play Unreal Tournament 2004 online, you need to be able to rotate the camera all the time while still retaining the ability to discern motion in the distance (say, an enemy running at you). With this monitor the ghosting is just too much and it can seriously hinder your playing. However, everything else about it is good as far as LCDs go. For me, I am going to return this monitor and go with a ViewSonic 22" CRT instead. It's half the price and offers just as good a picture quality in my opinion. Plus, I like being able to run my monitor at any resolution without having to worry about interpolation. And, I'll say it again -- for me ghosting is a show stopper. Here's a small experiment: try tracking the mouse pointer with your eyes in windows while moving it at various speeds. On this monitor is blurs easily. On a CRT it doesn't. If you are a gamer -- stay away. For this price you can get a CRT that will blow this LCD out of the water. However, other factors such as the ergonomics of this monitor are pretty good..
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Summary: Worth every penny.
Review: This monitor is a great value, even though it runs around $1,200. All 21.3" of glorious viewable screen. Very bright and clear. Also, it has the ability to physically turn from landscape to portrait and allows me to run several full screen docs side-by-side. At 1600X1200 I see everything. Great for business and everyday use and significantly reduces the heat in my office as well as gives me more of my desk back. The only issue that I could possibly come up with is that in spite of what anyone says, no high-end LCD will beat a high-end CRT monitor. If you are a graphics person or big gamer go for the 22"Viewsonic P225fb, half the cost and better for those uses. Even at that I am a bit picky. This monitor is just fabulous and you will not be disapointed.
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