Can anything beat the Dell 20" LCD for it's price?

[Jeff Lam]

Looking for an LCD soon and was wondering what to get. Dell always has sales on their monitors and you can often find the 2000FP for $800 or less. Is there anything out there that can beat it's performance for that price (no smaller than 17")?

[Trent Steel]

Could you supply a link with that price, I searched the Dell website and found the monitor but no price listed. $800 for a 20" LCD that sounds like a good deal to me.

[sleepypost]

ALL LCDs are way overpriced. LCD technology is old so i think companies should make their products more affordable. Laptops have boastes lcds for a long time and were selling for less than 1000 bucks with 15" (nice) lcds.

[glc]

I disagree - the price of LCD's is at an all time low, as is the price of CRT's, as a matter of fact. I remember the first 15" LCD we sold cost us $1000, and that wasn't that long ago.

The age of the technology is not an issue here - LCD's have a high production cost because of low yields, a lot of material gets scrapped due to flaws. The larger a screen you are trying to build, the more likely you will have flaws that meet rejection criteria.

Sure - today a laptop with a 15" TFT can be had for close to $1000, but I have a laptop with a 15" from 1998 - it's a 233 MMX and the original price was $4600. The same $1000 15" LCD I mentioned above can be had for under $250 today.

Jeff - my personal favorite large LCD is the KDS RAD-9 (19 inch), Newegg has it for $579 but it's out of stock. Looks like they have removed the DVI input though - time to rethink my choice here.

For a 20 inch, any style input, $800 is a steal. I do prefer DVI, the extra clarity is quite apparent. You do need a video card that has a DVI output.

[jbbrown211]

I just got a system through my job that included (2) 18.1" LCD monitors. It was an optiplex workstation, but had the following:
-80GB HD
-P4 2.4 GHz
-1.0 GB DDR RAM
-CD & DVD+RW
-Nvidia 64MB Quadro
Price Tag: $1,500

The LCD Monitors are great, but I'm not planning on using both, I'll probably sell the one and upgrade the video card & sound

[Jeff Lam]

So what kind of monitor is it and are you going to sell it?

[jbbrown211]

It's a Dell 18.1" Ultrasharp LCD, sells for $600 on their site, I already sold it to someone here for $500. You just missed it if you were interested, sorry. I'd prefer watching my DVD's on that as opposed to my regular TV now. It's a nice screen.