Review: Acer 22' Widescreen LCD Monitor

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Brian

Brian

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Just picked up today an Acer AL2216WBD 22" Widescreen. I originally found it on best buy's site on sale for $170, marked down from $299. Unfortunantly when I made the decision to buy, the sale was over. The next best price I could find was from Office Depot for $199. Not wanting to lose another great opertunity, I jumpted on it. This monitor is amazing for the price you pay. Its got VGA and DVI connections, a sturdy base, and is extremely lightweight. I purchased this monitor to serve two functions, the first was to replace the 17" CRT paperweight that used to be occupying up half of my desk, and to give me a good sized screen to show slideshows and promo videos at vendor shows. I would 199% recomend this monitor to anyone looking for an LCD screen. The only downside I can foresee in this monitor is that its native resolution is high, 1680x1050, which will require some more graphics power. My ATI HD2600 series card handles this with no problems on Windows XP, and better yet Windows 7 beta, which is absolutly beautiful.

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Heres a screenshot of Windows 7 Ultimate in 1680x1050 resolution.

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll181/deejaybrianb/Screenshot.jpg

I'll try to get a shot of the monitor up soon.

Office Depot Link:
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/288510/Acer-AL2216Wbd-22-Widescreen-Digital-Analog/
 
I bought the same one on Tiger Direct a month ago for $159.

I agree, it's a great monitor! I have an nVidia® Ge-Force™ 9500GS graphics card in my pc.
 
Yeah, Tiger is not great for shipping to the right coast...

I like NewEgg or BH Photo Video -- I get stuff the next morning, and don't have to pay extra (or any) shipping fees -- deal maker in my business :)
 
When I have ordered from TD, it ships out of Chi town (60 miles from me) and is there the next day with UPS Ground.

New Egg and BH take a while...I guess it just depends where you live.

BTW, I got a great deal on a Canon camera for the GF this Christmas from BH w/free shiping!
 
Another good monitor deal

I just picked up an AOC Envision L32W861 from Rat Shack on sale for $400. I bought one for a small conference room and we like it so much I'm buying 2 more today before the sales ends this Saturday.

It's a very bright 32" LCD, 720p, 2x HDMI, 1x component, 1x composite, 1x S-vid, 1x VGA, 1360x768 native but displays stretched 1280x768 or 1024x768 beautifully if you don't have a 1360 driver setting. All we use is the VGA port for PowerPoint & Excel display uses, so I can't vouch for the tuner or the other video ports, but it definitely seems to be a great large format monitor that also happens to be a TV. I'm thinking that a pair of these flanking a DJ setup would make a nice video addition to a setup, as long as they are securely mounted so they can't fall down and so they don't walk out the door....

New Egg sells the older model for $20 more. This is the newer model that you get to test drive and pickup at your neighborhood store.

full specs - http://www.nam.aocdisplay.com/aoc/index.html
 
A buddy of mine got that same TV and likes it a lot. It has a QAM tuner, which means it will pick up an unencrypted HD signal. If you have Comcast, this means you will receive a ton of HD/digital broadcast stations without having to spend $9.99 a month for their HD package or get a tuner box (unless you want more pay channels).
 
hiredpower said:
A buddy of mine got that same TV and likes it a lot. It has a QAM tuner, which means it will pick up an unencrypted HD signal. If you have Comcast, this means you will receive a ton of HD/digital broadcast stations without having to spend $9.99 a month for their HD package or get a tuner box (unless you want more pay channels).
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Wasn't Comcast the company going through all that trouble to control their subscribers bandwidth usage? :rofl:
 
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