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NEC LCD1960NXi 19" LCD Monitor (White)

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I bought this monitor, because so many places recommended it. Online and in Macintosh magazines. It's great for text, and pretty good for images, but not good enough.

I'm a long-time digital photographer, and I needed a superb image monitor. This was not it, because I could not adjust its image far enough. Adobe Gamma won't work on it, because the adjustment images don't change with adjustments. I could probably buy some expensive monitor optimizing hard and software for it, but it's not good enough for such an investment, because this monitor cannot be set to maximum contrast, like gamma requires. And its automatic adjustment just isn't good enough. So I could never get it close enough to perfect (like is so easy my Apple 20-inch).

I used it for several years on my Macintosh Cube when my Apple 20" Multisynch tube monitor finally died, and it just never was good enough. People complained that my online images (I'm a web publisher) were flat and too dark. Now, I'm hoping to use it as an second monitor for my iMac, where I'd only use it for text-based operations (like email and word processing) and menus. Leave the image tweaking to a five-star monitor like Apple's.

Or a Dell Super Sharp like the one I bought for my mother for$250, less than this one cost. Apple's monitors were four times that then.