Samsung 226BW or HP w2207 or UltraSharp 2407WFP-HC

After almost two weeks of playing with three different monitors - UltraSharp 2407WFP-HC, HP w2207 and Samsung 226BW I finally made up my mind. HP w2207 was the first one to go back to the store - despite the fact that pictures looked awesome on it, I could clearly see (having it side by side with Samsung and DELL) that quality of the text just wasn’t there. Then, I really really loved Dell’s UltraSharp 2407WFP-HC - awesome panel! Amazing colors. Unfortunately, its native resolution was just a little bit too high for my eyes. No matter how hard I tried adjusting brightness, messed with different resolutions, I just couldn’t get comfortable enough with it to say that I’m perfectly happy and ready to pay $600 for it. Not DELL’s fault… Terrific product, but went back to Dell. I wish I could afford 27″ version of that monitor, but I just can’t see how one can justify extra $700 for the panel of the same resolution as 24″. May be when it comes down in price (quite a bit) I’ll consider it… but for now, I decided to keep the Samsung 226BW (which, btw, Amazon has now for $299 after mail-in rebate!)

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