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Ordered 2007WFP 05 July from Australia, arrived on 11 July - A02
I ordered mine as new on 05 July. Arrived on 11 July, A02 from China.
* No dead or stuck pixels.
* Banding fixed 100% for Desktop mode, both vertical and horizontal (when compared with previous posts for A00, A01 looks like no change for the other two modes - major banding there). Very minor banding under lower resolutions (I am not an imaging expert but I would expect some banding because of the lack of 1:1 pixel ratio, compared to the native resolution).
* No text shadowing at all. Loaded TweakUI from Microsoft to fine tune the ClearType. Happy with the result.
* Most tweaks from the video card software, like the gamma correction lead to slight banding.
* Video card - plain PCX NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (playing some games but not much :).
* DVI input used for testing.
* I just got the monitor - give me a day or two to post some test results.
I wish good luck to all guys waiting for replacements, sounds like new batches of A02 are coming.
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Posted July 11th, 2006 22:00
it seems they've sorted out the australians
now what about the New Zealanders?206
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Posted July 12th, 2006 17:00
I was being sarcastic :DWhile I would love to have one, they still seem like a gamble.206
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Posted July 13th, 2006 01:00
I agree, it is a gamble (probably 50/50 to get a good one). I had another monitor so I was ready to go through the pain of replacement if needed. To be honest I can not complain about Australian support, my delivery delayed few hours and I called Dell. The lady checked with the courier (it was 18:00), confirmed that the monitor will delay 2 hours and apologised. The next day she called me just to confirm that everything is OK.
Maybe it is different approach to the new customers vs replacements, after reading the other posts I was surprised myself. The only negative aspect I would mention is the 20min waiting on hold (on speaker) with lousy music on the other side. If they put better music maybe the wait will be more bearable (slight sarcasm here).
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Posted July 13th, 2006 02:00
Some test results, I hope this will help you a bit.
http://p4ssw0rd.com/images/Banding.jpg
The first image is with Multimedia Mode (banding)
The second image is the same but after quick change to Desktop mode.
The third image is zoomed 10pt font in Word - no text shadow.
(In my humble opinion the best 20" monitor money can buy - if you are lucky). To be honest if you can use your current monitor and order a replacement, even a month wait does not look so bad. But I would understand the frustration if the new monitor has additional defects (like dead/stuck pixels, etc), which the old one has not. Decisions, decisions ...
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Posted July 13th, 2006 02:00
p4ssw0rd,
Awesome. I was just looking for a side by side comparison.
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Posted July 11th, 2006 22:00