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Oct 1, 2013
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Got my monitor yesterday:<br />The good and the bad...<br />The Good: It came in one piece, not dropped, no dead pixels, working just fine, the whole picture showed up on the screen from my macbook air, first try- no problems, full resolution. The screen is beautiful! Seriously, i'm impressed. Colors are great- super clear, that resolution is just gorgeous.<br /><br />The Bad:<br />It is definitely bright. I played around with the controls like luckydog did and was able to lower the brightness to a reasonable level and also go through the display calibration on my macbook air and get it looking pretty decent at lower brightness. Granted- it's not perfect, the color is a little bit off... especially noticeable on dark colors, but it is reasonable, for the price, it's not reason enough for me to return it. Additionally- there is definitely a good amount of light bleed on black screens, but it's only noticeable when it's completely black, and again, not reason enough for me to return it. I use the monitor, mostly for coding/homework/school/related things/ web surfing/ and occasionally Netflix or Hulu. So NBD there. The other weird thing was that if you push the input selection button on accident when it's already set right- mine switched to black and started making a weird sound. I couldn't get it to go back without restarting the monitor. That's a weird bug. And also-I agree, the on screen controls are kind of ridiculously poorly programmed. The interface looks nice, but functionally the buttons don't make any sense. But... I can get over that- and started to have the arrangement memorized by the end of the night. <br /><br />Overall- I'm pleased. The resolution was really what I was going for- I wanted all of that real-estate, and for the price, this is still a heck of a deal. There are definitely problems... but that is to be expected for a monitor of this price. I have no plans to return mine.
Oct 1, 2013
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