ViewSonic ThinEdge VP930B 19

User Reviews for ViewSonic ThinEdge VP930B 19

• Reviewed by: cleverrox

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  Strengths: Brightness, crisp readable text, easy to adjust and swivel. Vertical and horizontal viewing angles rock!

  Weaknesses: None. A flawless 19" LCD for office work. The refresh rate might not be suitable for hard core gamers - but I wanted a monitor for work.

  Overall Evaluation: I did six hours research on LCD monitors after getting some Dell 1905's and Dell 1907's that I absolutely hated and swearing I would find a monitor I could read effortlessly. To be fair - the 1907's are decent gaming monitors - but they suck for everything else. The text on the Dell's was hard to read and the viewing angles on the 1907 is horrible. The Dell 1901 I still have is a good monitor, but looks shabby compared to the VP930b next to it.After tweaking the VP930b with the PerfectSuite it looks absolutely fabulous. I haven't one complaint.
• Reviewed by: dewpoint

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  Strengths: Great ergonomic features, DVI/CRT ready, light weight for its size, fast response rate.

  Weaknesses: Bightness and contrast are a bit too much, Customer/tech support almost non-existant, Small blue pop-up on boot up and settings change.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great monitor that is feature rich. Its ergonomic features (tilt, swivel, vertical height adjust) and its fast response rate were the selling points for me.The monitor also can be physically switched back and forth from portrait to landscape along with perfect suite software that automatically adjusts the monitor image accordingly. The monitor itself occupies very very little desk space. The default brightness and contrast need to be toned down manually as they are both way too much for my eyes. The image is generally very sharp and there is not noticeable ghosting due to fast response rate.There is a small blue pop-up that appears upon boot-up and changing the monitor settings letting me know that my connection to my video card is DVI. It disappears after 20 seconds or so but is a general nuisance that I haven't yet figured out how to disarm. Viewsonic's customer/tech support is basically non-existent. There are people there (at Viewsonic) who answer the phone when you call but their training consists of how to read the on-line instruction manual and that's about it. They basically know less about their product and PCs in general than my goldfish. My feeling is that if one has a problem with a veiwsonic monitor, they are on his or her ownDespite these few problems, I'm glad to have switched from a Viewsonic CRT to this LCD and am satisfied with this monitor and am happy for buying it.