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• Samsung SyncMaster 245BW Black 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor

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  $315.00 - $537.56
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  4 Star Review

  Reviewed by: Mac_Jack99

  Updated:08-20-07

  Duration of ownership:2 Days

  Strengths: Crisp, clear text and images, great "eye relief and spacious enough for all-purpose use.

  Weaknesses: No built-in speakers, unnecessary: factory set for use with Windows machines. User manual - "useless."

  Overall Evaluation: Have used this monitor for 2 weeks and really enjoy the "eye relief" - easy viewing and greatly aids detailed photo & video editing. I've enjoyed viewinig movies and slideshows - better than my old 19" television by far. List price is a lot more than for 22-inch but the advantages, both needed and "for fun" are worth the discounted price of around $499. My biggest gripe is that, if connected to a Mac, it is really hard for those new to separate monitors to work around Samsung's intentional set-up for Windows machines. On the other hand, those experienced with Macs will figure out the best way is to go to the "Displays" panel in Preferences and use ALL the Apple monitor adjusting software.This includes re-setting the Gamma (basically, brightness) from Windows to Mac. Windows monitors are ALL set to "220" - very bright. I see complaints in other reviews about brightness. Mac Gamma is "180" - which darkens and "enriches" color noticably.Also: Apple has great calibration software, easy to use and it works just as well as those separately sold calibration packages people are pursuaded to buy. The other thing about Samsung's emphasis on having this monitor set for Windows is that their manual and other documentation is basically useless if you're connecting it to a Mac. Internet Explorer is needed to read the manual (which comes on CD) - ridiculous when they could have made the manual in (univerally readable) PDF format. This also makes it hard to print out a page or two for setting by while working on set up - Adobed Reader is excellent for this "isolated printing" of a few pages (or an entire manual if needed). What were they thinking when they did this??!!Okay - at a $150 savings from retail and a whopping $400 savings compared to the Apple 23-inch Display, this amount of "grief" is worth the trouble! Lack of speakers and manual which can be used by all buyers just brings my rating down to 4 stars.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: Adaminchicago

  Updated:08-18-07

  Duration of ownership:14 Days

  Strengths: big screen, nice color, very wide, good quality

  Weaknesses: none for the price

  Overall Evaluation: This monitor is a great buy for the price. It basically doubles the size of my old crappy monitor. Nice design, seems very sturdy. Compares very favorably to the competition with 3000:1 contrast ratio and 5ms. The Acer AL2416WBsd comes close but only has 1000:1.

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  3 Star Review

  Reviewed by: BigNinja

  Updated:08-17-07

  Duration of ownership:1

  Strengths: 24" LCD for $478 out the door after 10% off coupon, this $10 review, and $50 mail-in rebate. Nice adjustable stand. HDCP. Comes with DVI cable. 3 years parts and labor warranty.

  Weaknesses: Not much bigger than a 22" but costs allot more. No speakers.

  Overall Evaluation: Nice large 24" widescreen put my old 17" to shame. I really miss the built-in speakers. You would think that for the price it cost, that it would come with 20 watts of Dolby stereo sound. The high resolution makes the screen not fill up until 800X600 is selected. This might be due to my cheap video card, so I plan to change it next. If it doesn't do the trick, then I would wonder why anyone would want to pay for the bigger screen if you can't use it. I guess it may be for gamers and movie buffs? For the 2 inches gained and the $200 extra paid over the 22" model, that comes with speakers, I would not reccomend this monitor.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: dmferrin

  Updated:07-30-07

  Duration of ownership:14 Days

  Strengths: Evenly bright screen, maybe too bright. Easy tilt and swivel base for perfect allignment. Quick response in fast moving scenes.

  Weaknesses: At this price level, none.

  Overall Evaluation: I got my screen to use for my work and occasional FPS game play. The screen real estate makes multitasking much easier. The base is easy to work with to get the right height, swivel and tilt (to fight off the afternoon glare). It even comes with a special cloth to wipe the fingerprints off of the bezel. Technically, this monitor has what any baseline 24" monitor should have, a 1920 x 1200 5ms screen with VGA and DVI (w/ HDCP) inputs. All the other frivolous stuff like s-video, composite and component inputs make for a TV/monitor, not a monitor. The OSD is very functional, but very small on a 1920x1200 screen. The buttons on the lower right side do not overwhelm the styling of the monitor, and the power button has an emerald blue glow when it is on. The thickness of the bezel is not too big, and the glossy finish is very stylish but can be a bit distracting in a brightly lit room. I would think that it would scratch very easily, but then again how many (responsible) people have sharp objects near their monitors. Unless you really have to have USB ports on your monitor, this one is a very good deal.

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  5 Star Review

  Reviewed by: npasic

  Updated:07-17-07

  Duration of ownership:1 Weeks

  Strengths: size, DVI port, contrast ratio

  Weaknesses: no tilt

  Overall Evaluation: great monitor for a great price will provide with many hours of enjoyable view; just by looking at the size of the screen you ask yourself how we were able to live before without monitors of this size; it can easily accommodate 3 full pages in Word; great monitor

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  4 Star Review

  Reviewed by: lziliang

  Updated:07-13-07

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: A very good balance on performance and price, nice design and provide some "luxury-finish" feeling, convenient rotating base.

  Weaknesses: Color is not so vivid as I expect.

  Overall Evaluation: I used 3 LCD before, Sony's, Samsung 915N and the Apple's(for a short time). First, it's outlook. I would say this monitor's finish is great as when I took it out of the box, my girlfriend screamed out "woo, it looks so beautiful!". And besides its finish, I think the layout of this LCD is pretty good: clear and responsive buttons, not many extra connections and no USB/Fireware ports. Simple and "elegant". Second, picture quality. So far it's doing a great job on text-reading and video playback, though it's not as good as my old Sony when it comes to digital image editing(well, maybe the Apple is even better), but far more better then the 915N. I have yet to see its strength(?) on games because I rarely play games, I only tried the Shin.Sangokumusou 4 on it and it's working fine. Last, I don't complain about the lack of portrait mode and I don't feel like it's stable. And the rotating base of this 245BW is great on my corner table, super convenient. I would give a solid 4+ stars on this LCD, it's a good buy for anyone concerns about the quality/price ratio.

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Samsung SyncMaster 245BW Black 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor

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