Hey! Bruce Naylor, your frugaltech here. And you know, one of the least expensive ways to increase your productivity is to have dual displays. You're not minimizing, you're not maximizing as much, you have a much larger desktop to do your work in. in fact, some survey suggests that you increase productivity by as much as 20-30% over having one display. Well, you know, I was in the market for another display and I came across an add from Tiger Direct for the Acer, the X223Wbd display for a hundred and forty-nine dollars, my two dollars in shipping and so I ordered this thing. Ordered on a Monday, I got it on Tuesday and this is the box that it came in right here and as you can see its pretty small. I think the whole thing weighs right around 12 to 13 pounds. A dollar and 99 delivery. It’s amazing. But anyhow, I just wanted to give a quick review and this is it right here. Here's the display, I might go ahead and just tighten up on that shot a little if we can, here we go. This is the display right here. It’s a very nice display and so far I'm pretty pleased with these. Like anything else there are some pros and cons to the Acer X223Wbd display. So there we go.
First off, it is a big bright display, its 22 inches, 1680 by 1050 on the resolution. It does have a DVI and VGA input. Its very light weight, like I said, about 12 pounds, roughly for–it comes with three years parts and labor warranty. Its got a very fast response time of like 5 milliseconds and is claimed to have a 25 hundred and one contrast ratio as well as a hundred and 70 degree horizontal viewing -- so that’s all very, very good stuff.
Now the cons to this monitor is first is–it really does have kind of poor color accuracy. Have to do a lot of adjusting to get the colors somewhat pleasing that I could live with. Initially, when you first turn it on, it’s going to be very bright, very contrasty. The colors are going to be super saturated on this monitor, so it takes some twiddling. I went to the ACER site, there is no ICM profile. Have you worked with color photography? That’s digital photography or you know you're printing photos, that sort of thing. ICM profiles kind of match the devise to the–to what you see on the screen, color wise. So that’s not available. I noticed some minor backlight bleed on this display. That’s not too bad but roughly in the edges is where it happens to be the most noticeable. The other thing is that the controls to the monitor feel a little bit flimsy, or kind of–now, what's the word I'm looking for, plasticky I guess. It just feels kind of cheap. Also the stand of this monitor is not very, very strong in my opinion. It doesn’t feature any USB or HDMI inputs. So those are some of the negatives on this monitor but you know what, for an inexpensive everyday display for office applications, you know, if you're doing Word, emails, spreadsheets, that sort of thing, this clear big bright display is highly recommended. You can get it very, very inexpensively. But you know, adding a dual display really does improve your productivity and I highly recommend that you look into it.
Check out the Acer X223Wbd display. This is a slightly over monitor, a lot of them available on the internet. I got mine through Tiger Direct, would you mind to search around. -- would be happy as long as you're not using the monitor for color critical work. Its probably going to be just fine for some video gaming and you know, watching some DVD movies as well. Now the monitor is a 16 to 10 aspect ration. So it’s a little bit wider than the true HD16:9 format. Other than that, I don’t really have any real complaints about this monitor. I think it’s a good buy at that price range. If you're doing color critical work, spend a little bit more money and get a higher quality flat panel but for everday use, this thing really is pretty tough to beat. I’m Bruce Naylor, your frugaltech, well, talk you later.
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