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April 30, 2007
Gateway FPD2485W 24-inch Widescreen HD-LCD Flat-Panel Display
Gateway FPD2485W 24-inch Widescreen
Tis the season for upgrades. I figured it was time to retire my 21" CRT's and update the resolution of my LCD monitors. My first update was a widescreen HD capable monitor/LCD for my bedroom. With DVD's mostly in widescreen format these days and the multitude of connection options, this monitor made perfect sense for my bedroom.
So far it looks pretty slick, You can see more pics in the gallery.
Future plans include another 24" widescreen for use on my development station in the computer room (hercules) along with 1 or more 20" 4:3 monitors rotated in portrait mode. (The gallery shows my brief experiment).
Circuit had almost the lowest price on this. (J&R is about 5$ lower now). However, with circuit city I was able to drive over, pick it up and also save $10 on the speaker bar. Not too shabby...
It was a bit funny though while working out the sale with the sales person.
He had to double check the pricing, to get permission.
Afterwards he kept insisting I purchase an extended warrenty.
He even went as far as suggesting to break the monitor near the end of the warrenty period to get some money back to put towards a new monitor.
My response... "but that would be dishonest".
He was really unahppy that I would not go for the extra $200.
I figure if the unit dies in a year, I'll just put that $200 towards a new monitor.
My other monitors have lasted a long time.
I think these days, I'll just refrain from the extended warrenty, I'v enever been able to really use them and it only inflates my price. About the only place I think I'll use it is on a large screen HDTV which may be happening this year.
Posted by Me on April 30, 2007 11:00 PM