Acer P215H monitor from Walmart

[N1LAF]

I removed the last CRT monitor from my home office and replaced it with the Acer P215H from Walmart, at a nice price of $149. This monitor is advertised as online only on the website, but they were in the store, I saw it (last one), and grabbed it. Last week I tossed my 21" Hitachi CRT at the dump, was sitting in the basement for 3 years and no one wanted it.

Quick specs:
21.5 inches
Dynamic Contrast of 50000
Brightness: 300
Response time: 5ms
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
1 DVI port, 1 VGA port, no HDMI
5 star user reviews.


There is another monitor that caught my attention - Online only
Acer H233H for $179
Quick specs:
23 inches
Dynamic Contrast of 40000
Brightness: 300
Response time: 5ms
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
1 DVI port, 1 VGA port, 1 HDMI port
Speakers
5 star user reviews.

[WØTKX]

I've been using the H233H here for almost a year, and just picked up another one.

:agree:

Soon I will have 2 monitors in the shack. The speakers suck, but I use an
Altec Lansing 3.1 speaker setup with a small sub that seems immune to RF.

[KC2UGV]

I might have to go and grab one those to replace my ailing 17" Acer...

[NQ6U]

I'd love an LCD monitor to replace my 19" Sony CRT. It was top of the line in it's day and it still does a great job even after close to 15 years of use but it takes up so much damned space in my shack and it weighs a ton.

[N1LAF]

I'd love an LCD monitor to replace my 19" Sony CRT. It was top of the line in it's day and it still does a great job even after close to 15 years of use but it takes up so much damned space in my shack and it weighs a ton.

The good news is that you can replace your CRT, with better color and sharpness, higher resolutions, and easy ion the wallet comparatively. These new LCD monitors are less costly than CRT's.

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Just to note that Walmart has a large selection from their online store, and they can ship it for free (shipping) to the nearest Walmart to you.

[N1LAF]

Last week, a chain of stores called "Ocean State Job Lot" was selling HDMI cables, 6', for $2.50. I bought a 12 foot for $10.00, worked great, so I bought 4 of the 6' HDMI cables at $2.50

[WØTKX]

Best Buy had the 23" on sale... last week for 170, but that's over with.

Heck, it's still decent at $219.00

[n6hcm]

Acer H233H for $179


we use a variant of these at work (those which we use don't have speakers--the work environment isn't suitable for speakers) ... we have about forty in the building. thumbs up, except (as far as i remember) they're not as adjustable as we'd like. since we have reams of paper we're able to resolve this cheaply enough.

[WØTKX]

:lol:

Don't you love how people insist on printing things all the time, even with easy access to the documents with smartphones, etc.? Drives me nuts. I get a "handout" and immediately ask for electronic copy... some get perturbed at this, so I apologize and scan it.

It was created in MS Word or Excel (usually) so why can't we use that? :dunno:

[KC2UGV]

:lol:

Don't you love how people insist on printing things all the time, even with easy access to the documents with smartphones, etc.? Drives me nuts. I get a "handout" and immediately ask for electronic copy... some get perturbed at this, so I apologize and scan it.

It was created in MS Word or Excel (usually) so why can't we use that? :dunno:

I dunno... This is coming from someone who admins an enterprise content management system (Documentum). The only joes I see with a really valid reason for paper are the lawyers. Because all the writing on the document counts towards it's legality. But, for those, we scan, and post in our document repository for everyone else to consume.

[N8YX]

I'm viewing this on a pair of Acer AL1706 monitors. Great little things; have seen daily use for 5 years.

My home PC lab/ham shack area is due for an upgrade. I'm thinking three 21-23" multi-input Acers (one for each of the "hutch" systems), two 19-20" multi-input units (for the rig-control and distro-building computers, run in dual monitor configuration) and anywhere from 4-8 of these 17" setups for outputting the secondary heads of a number of servers and radio-control systems.

Ultimately I want a 42" flat-panel TV on the wall and plan to use it as the heads-up display for the two SO2R micro-ATX computers which I'll eventually build.