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The 20" Dell needs a replacement

I blogged last week about my shiny new 20" Dell widescreen, and alas, it needs to be replaced.

I've had a total of three other LCD's, plus laptops, but I've never had one burn-in or ghost. This one is doing it big time. On a black or gray background, you can see my desktop background, my chat client, icons and the task bar. Worse, you can see a window that was only there short-term.

There's also a moving "wave" down the one side of it that's annoying. Between those two problems, I speculate that there's some kind of power problem in the monitor that's pushing too much into it or something. I mean, I've seen the Apple part in stores (uses the same LCD), but this one does seem almost unnaturally bright. Oh well, we'll see what the replacement does. It should be here in two to three days.

Posted: Jul 18 2005, 06:33 PM by Jeff | with 5 comment(s)
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Jason Mauss said:

About 4 months ago I bought a 21" Samsung SyncMaster 213T. does 1600x1200 no problem and has zero dead pixels, no ghosting or burn-in at all.
# July 18, 2005 8:18 PM

Scott McCulloch said:

Nice case Jeff, exactly the same one as mine! Lian Li with the light and window (mine is green though!).

I'm still using a Samsung SyncMaster 19", I'll be upgrading to a dell 24" soon though..
# July 19, 2005 12:41 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

That's why Dell is so cheap - they buy the cheapest **** they can find. Price is their focus, not quality.
# July 19, 2005 12:52 PM

Bivv said:

I had some issues with mine also. I had them send me 2 before I got a good monitor.
# July 19, 2005 1:39 PM

Jeff said:

I don't know that I'd call the LCD itself cheap. It is the same one Apple uses. My guess is there's a problem with its power supply. It even wakes up funny.
# July 19, 2005 9:26 PM
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