This is the newest addition to my desktop setup. I love having more desktop real-estate and it is said that you will be more productive if you have more space to work with; I hope that is true. As I have mentioned in previous post on G. Wade Tech Review this monitor is the Samsung SyncMaster 2220WM that gives off a very nice picture. With a glossy bezel and a LCD non-glossy screen you get the best of both worlds. I like the non-glossy screens because you don’t get the reflection as if you are looking into a mirror. Even though you get an enhanced picture from a glossy screen I don’t think it is worth it when you can’t see parts of the screen very well because you happen to have a light on that is behind you or a window open in the background blinding you from the reflection in the monitor. This monitor has a 5 ms response time as well as both an analog and digital input. The monitor does lack some of the other more common inputs such as: composite, HDMI, S-Video, USB, and others I may be missing. Since I use other peripherals for those purposes I don’t mind not having them built into the monitor.
I picked this monitor up at Best Buy on Black Friday for $200 as one of my Christmas gifts from my wife. (Thanks for the nice gift.) As I was doing my research on which monitor I wanted to get I decided on this monitor over other monitors because I wanted to add it to my other Samsung SyncMaster 720N 17″. This works out great because the 22″ widescreen monitor and the 17″ monitor have almost the same height so when I have them next to each other they are as close to the same screen height as you can get without having two of the same monitors. The other reason that I wanted this monitor was the fact that they have the same color settings in the menu so I don’t have to go through and adjust the colors to try and get them to give off the same picture.
Here are some pics of the 22″ Samsung SyncMaster 2220WM:
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