Thanks to Artie Alinikoff, long time friend and supporter of MyMac.com, for submitting the following quickie review.
Here is the website for the following monitor, with much pertinent info.
Artie writes:
As a serious part time photographer, the necessity of a really good monitor is invaluable. You can search through the product resources and find monitors costing well into the thousands of dollars. I can’t afford what the big boys use. And I don’t need it. What I need is an affordable, sharp, clear, good sized monitor for my Photoshop image creation and editing. After a lot of research I found the answer.
The NEC MultiSync FP2141 SB would be the answer to any computer gamer/photographer’s dream.
Right out of the box set up took a short 15 minutes. I turned it on and the picture was dead perfect. Text is so sharp you could cut yourself. Colors are vibrant. Alive. But, are they accurate I asked myself.
I opened Photoshop immediately and brought up a pic that I had trouble getting the true colors to print using my old monitor. I printed a copy, sized 4 X 6. The colors were true.
Monitor’s screen is a full 20" viewable. The chassis is black, which I like because it stays out of the way when I’m tweaking colors. It also contains a USB hub, self powered, with one upstream port and four downstream ports. It has Reduced Magnetic Field Technology lowering static electricity emissions, OptiClear screen surface which decreases reflection, and many more features making this one of the best monitors on the market. Period.
Oh, for you geeks out there, NEC MultiSync FP2141 SB is a flat aperture grill CRT with .24 dot pitch matrix and the ability to go all the way up to 2048 X 1536 resolution, with the recommended resolution being 1600 X 1200 at 85 Hz.
But forget all the technical lingo. Go see one of these babies in action and you’ll want it.