Samsung Syncmaster 245B Arrives!
After about a weeks planning, I have finally bought the Samsung Syncmaster 245B. It is a 24 inch TN TFT LCD monitor with VGA and DVI input. Its maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 which gives quite a bit of workspace. Somereviews say the vewing angles aren’t too good, but I couldn’t really tell the difference. Because I hooked it up to a Dell D410 Latitude laptop which uses a graphics accelerator rather than a real graphics card, the pictures might be a bit lower in quality. But since I don’t really game or to any graphics intensive working, it hasn’t been a problem so far.
When I first saw the box, my reaction was “whoa.” The monitor was bigger than I really expected and I had to move alot of things around in my room to make it fit properly. After strugglings with tons of cabling , I finally got to hook the monitor up and turn it on. But there was a problem! My computer was OS-less… The night before I had messed up the OS so I had to reinstall windows before I could check out the monitor. I waited whilst doing some homework and drinking some nice green tea.
After waiting for ever, windows was ready, I installed all the drivers and programs and went through the basic routine when you format a computer. When finally everything was back to normal, I turned on the monitor, and voila, the screen appeared. I had to do adjust the resolution first to 1920 x 1200. The resolution and quality was just awesome. My laptop monitor wasn’t something you could even compare it with. I tried setting the brightness to maximum, but unlike my laptop, the thing got blinding so I had to set it down a bit.
Overall, I am very satisfied with my monitor and am hoping I can get a computer with a proper graphics card so I can use it to its fullest potential.
