Dell has very fast shipping, but it's not accurate on their website. The last order I made the package arrived and it still showed as being processed.
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I just bought a Dell.......
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I also just bought the 2007fpw, I bought it for $330 shipped, with dells 22% off and ebay coupon codes for a $1. Mine shipped the day after I payed, it took a while to update online, but it should be safe to say, you will get it 2 days after yo placed your order. Btw, the screen, was my best purchase ever. ahhh, its so nice to look at.
gomatt said:
Yeah, I love mine. It was a nice upgrade from my tiny 15" LCD that's 1024x768. There's sooooooo much more room now
$330!?!?!?!!?gomatt said:
That's £180. Here, with that money, you can get yourself a 19" 1280x1024 jobbie (note the VAT inclusive price), or an E176FP 17" from Dell for £14 less. Here the 2007WFP, with a 25% discount is £276.75 excluding VAT and shipping, or £328.71 (US$603).
I want to complain to the manager.
Double the bloody price. Why?
Because of the 17.5% VAT? No.
Because they can? Yes.
Bastards.
OK so I've realised if I sell the 17" I have connected to one of my PMs, to my boss (he wants to give me £100 for it!!!!), I can get a 2007WFP for £230. Which interests me, a lot.
Have any of you experienced the seemingly common "DVI banding" issue?
Are you all getting nice new A02 revision screens?
Have any of you experienced the seemingly common "DVI banding" issue?
Are you all getting nice new A02 revision screens?
iGary said:That is if you like looking at ugly plastic all day compared to sculpted aluminum...or if you want FireWire Ports...
The Dells are definitely a good deal, but they definitely do not look as nice ad the ACD. I know that is not of any importance to some, but its worth it to me, personally.
Pluse, Michael Dell is one of the last people I want to be putting up in a mansion.
While you're admiring your sculpted aluminium i'll admire how well my black 2005FPW fades into the background. Oh and i'll also admire all the other things i could afford because of the price difference between the two, which at the time let me afford my mac mini
Oh and also while you are admiring that lovely sculpted aluminium i'm playing my XBOX and viewing a second PC on my screen without having to disconnect any wires.
Then again, to each their own.
bigandy said:that's a bloody amazing price, compared to the UK price: GBP£472.35.
US$367 is £201.
Yep, these Dell screens cost about two times as much in europe as in the US. Here in Austria the 20" Dell costs about 50 - 70 less than the ACD, at least last time I checked. It's not that easy to get these coupons here too. Because of this I don't like the statements in the ACD vs. Dell threads that the Dell is half the price, it is not everywhere!
To the op, lucky you live where you live and can enjoy your new monitor for a really great price.
I was ready to buy an ACD in november/december but then I won the 21" Eizo monitor in my sig.
TBi said:While you're admiring your sculpted aluminium i'll admire how well my black 2005FPW fades into the background. Oh and i'll also admire all the other things i could afford because of the price difference between the two, which at the time let me afford my mac mini
Oh and also while you are admiring that lovely sculpted aluminium i'm playing my XBOX and viewing a second PC on my screen without having to disconnect any wires.
Then again, to each their own.
<-- has no second PC and has no XBox, for example.
chaosbunny said:<-- has no second PC and has no XBox, for example.
The phrase goes, "You do it to me once, it's shame on you. You do it again, and it's shame on me."
Which begs the question...why would anyone own *TWO* PC's (let alone one???)?
NATO said:I agree. Logically the Dell's are the better deal (more inputs, cheaper etc), but when it comes right down to it I just can't get away from that Brushed Aluminium. That's why I got two of em
Having the same panel doesn't mean it has the same backlight.
Do they differe at all in this area?
TBi said:
Huh?
TBi said:Oh and i'll also admire all the other things i could afford because of the price difference between the two, which at the time let me afford my mac mini
How do you know what people can afford?
TBi said:
While you're using your incredibly ugly display for an Xbox and a PC, I'll play Xbox on a 52" TV... and I don't do PCs.
The cheap displays are just a gimmick... they're almost as much as ACDs everywhere else in the world as someone has already stated.
dpaanlka said:
If you can afford a 52-inch TV for your Xbox, you're probably not the target market for an affordable monitor.
Cheap, in this case, is not a gimmick. It's a bargain. I love the Apple ACDs, but I've got a 2007WFP in my room and it's beautiful. It's not aluminum, but it's bright, accurate, evenly lit, and far more adjustable than an ACD is. And it's far from ugly - there's a thin, black bezel and a small, neat row of adjustment buttons. That's it.
Methinks you're just as biased anyone you might be criticizing. Just because you would gladly shell out twice the money for a less flexible piece of hardware doesn't mean everyone else should follow.
Most acd's use the EXACT SAME PART NUMBER for the screen as the dell lcds. So they're pretty much the same, you imagine the rest about qualityAbstract said:And seeing as how Dell monitors are generally better than ACDs from a specs standpoint, I tend to agree.
You really need to be an aluminium fiend to pay such a price difference.
gloss said:
I said it once and I'll say it again, this is not true if you happen to live outside the United States.
chaosbunny said:
Yes, but person I was responding to lives in Chicago. I understand that when the price difference is smaller there is a lot more to debate, but come on.
gloss said:
You're right, I am extremely biased as a few others have said, for several reasons.
1: No matter how you cut it, the display is ugly.
2: While it uses the same LCD panel, the build-quality of the Dell-part of the display (everything that is not the LCD panel) is clearly inferior. Just becuase it uses the same panel doesn't mean its the same display.
3: I hate Michael Dell, for his long history of ridiculous statements about Apple, and becuase I actually met him once, years ago (friend of a business friend of moms), and he is very smug in real life.
I ordered mine on Tuesday
Wasn't supposed to ship until mid-July, but I got an email that it shipped this morning
(Note: You can get them for $357 by combining this deal with a $10 off if you pay via PayPal)
I'd also like to add that not only is the Dell less expensive, the only difference in the viewing panel you will notice while using your computer (not drooling over the metal case which doesn't effect it) is that the Dell is actually better (article compares 2005FPW which the 2007 improves to the ACD 20" that has not changed).
Argue about the outside of the panel all you want, the Dell is more accurate, sharper, brighter, has more ports, cooler running, and much less expensive. Sorry if buying wisely offends you; I buy monitors to use my computer with, not to lust over their casing.
Wasn't supposed to ship until mid-July, but I got an email that it shipped this morning
(Note: You can get them for $357 by combining this deal with a $10 off if you pay via PayPal)
I'd also like to add that not only is the Dell less expensive, the only difference in the viewing panel you will notice while using your computer (not drooling over the metal case which doesn't effect it) is that the Dell is actually better (article compares 2005FPW which the 2007 improves to the ACD 20" that has not changed).
Argue about the outside of the panel all you want, the Dell is more accurate, sharper, brighter, has more ports, cooler running, and much less expensive. Sorry if buying wisely offends you; I buy monitors to use my computer with, not to lust over their casing.
chaosbunny said:
So, the only advantage to living in the US must be cheap Dell displays then. Well, at least I found one advantage......
dpaanlka said:
1. Ugly no, but not as pretty as an ACD, yes.
2. I worked in the Apple section of a computer store for a while, so I've had quite a bit of experience with the ACDs - they're very nice. But from the few days I've had with my Dell, I was impressed with its build quality as well. Use them side by side and you'll see what I mean.
3. Fair enough, but you shouldn't expect that to have any bearing on other people's decisions. I hear Steve Jobs is a bit of a tyrant, too.
yg17 said:
You're one of those people who things living like a hermit in Pueblo would be the ultimate lifestyle, aren't you?
gloss said:1. Ugly no, but not as pretty as an ACD, yes.
2. I worked in the Apple section of a computer store for a while, so I've had quite a bit of experience with the ACDs - they're very nice. But from the few days I've had with my Dell, I was impressed with its build quality as well. Use them side by side and you'll see what I mean.
3. Fair enough, but you shouldn't expect that to have any bearing on other people's decisions. I hear Steve Jobs is a bit of a tyrant, too.
1: Fair enough.
2: I do my neighbor has one. I can't get over the plasticy-ness, and it creaks, and it also is very clumsy to adjust.
3: I've heard similar rumors!
dpaanlka said:
Mine doesn't creak, but the adjustment is very clumsy, especially in light of Apple's miraculous support-arm design on the G4 iMacs. Still, numerous clumsy but effective modes of flexibility are preferable to a single axis of motion, no matter how smooth.
Make no mistake, I would have picked up an ACD if the price difference were $50 or $60. But twice as much? Sorry, Apple.