Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Latest Breed of Cost-Effective 20” LCDs Reviewed. 20" LCDs Priced Like 17” Models Examined

11:47 pm | Anton Shilov

January 2005 was an interesting month for those observing LCD monitors as some impressive changes have come about: Samsung announced that it will progressively move towards a zero dead pixel policy, and prices have decreased so much that supplies now exceed demand. The real winners of all these changes are buyers who now have the option of bigger and cheaper monitors. 20” LCDs are now more and more affordable. There 1600x1200 pixels monitors, instead of 1280x 024 for 17” and 19”s, now target the general public. But which monitor to choose? That question can partly be answered with BeHardware’s recent LCD roundup.

“Tested in our last roundup are the Acer AL2021MS, Belinea 10 20 05, Dell 2005FPW, LaCie Photo20Vision II, Nec LCD 2060NX, Philips Brillance 200P4SS and Sony SDM-S204H,” BeHardware informs.

“We were lucky to test all these impressive monitors, especially two of them: the Dell (our favourite) and the Philips. The first will please movie fans and those looking for a big monitor to simultaneously display two documents (movie and text, two texts, text and web) The other, the 200P4, is a little more reactive and will be better for fast FPS type games, even if afterglow is more noticeable than with 17” and 19” TN panels,” concludes the article.

• BeHardware: LCD Roundup: 7 Low Priced 20” LCD.

NVIDIA's GeForce Go 6800 Ultra Benchmarked. GeForce Go 6800 Ultra Brings Desktop Speed to Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2

10:06 pm | Yaroslav Lyssenko

AnandTech web-site has reviewed Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2 notebook. This 17” desktop replacement mobile PC is powered by Intel Pentium M 2.13GHz microprocessor, 1GB of DDR2 memory clocked at 533MH and is equipped with NVIDIA’s top mobile GPU – the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra.

“We are going to look at today is the highest end notebook we’ve yet seen (in terms of graphics speed) compared against the high end desktop configuration we used when testing SLI graphics. This will serve to give us a good picture of where ultra high end notebook performance falls with respect to ultra high end desktop performance. As the core clock on the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra is higher than most desktop GeForce 6800 Ultras (400 to 425 depending on the vendor), it’s very possible we could see some interesting numbers come out of this. Of course, the notebook’s Pentium M 2.13GHz processor will limit the performance of the system compared to our Athlon 64 4000+ desktop. We aren’t likely to see the Go 6800 Ultra paired with anything but a Pentium M due to the TDP requirements of vendors. Mobile Pentium 4 and Mobile Athlon 64 parts are still too hot to be able to economically run a Go 6800 Ultra as well,” AnandTech writes.

• AnandTech: GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Powering the Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2.

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