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Anyone tested the Dell 30″?
The heading says it all…
Gunleik
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They just put them on the market like two days ago, I doubt anyone here has tested them extensively.
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ah…
That’s why I haven’t seen it before… -;)
Gunleik
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after reading about the drop frame issues with the 24″ Dell monitor I’m definitely not going to be the first on the block to test it.
Personally, I’m still loving the 23″ as the perfect sized monitor. 30″ and larger is really only needed if you plan to use it as an HD monitor, at least as far as I’m concerned.
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Hmmm – I’m about to get one of the dell 24″ displays – I was under the impression that people here who have them are very happy with them and don’t suffer from the drop frames issues
Paul
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I am very dubious of that Dell display drop frame report. NO ONE has reported any such problems on the Apple site, at LAFCPUG nor here. There are quite a few of us with these monitors, and I have not had any drop frame issues…and I have TWO.
Apple might be feeling the heat, or people who just happen to have the monitors are having issues with dropped frames and are blaming the monitors.
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The apple technote is very old. I remember having read it back in the days of FCP3. I guess that it has to do with CRT monitors not displaying some frames due to their low refresh rate, but the article isn’t very clear.
Beside, I thought that those Dell had DVI ports. As far as I know, there is no refresh rate to set wih DVI monitors… I wonder where’s the issue.
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We have 4 Dell 24’s (2 per G5 system) and have nothing but good to say about them, especially for the price. All ours are running off DVI inputs and we do not use them for any playback, but we have no frame drop or any other issues (other than an Apple kinda guy having to look at a Dell logo.)
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A litle bit of black tape covers the dell logo nicely!
BTW no problems with the 2405 here. I think this is all rumors, especially if it started from people blaming actual droped frames on the monitor – not some kind of skipping frames on the dell display only.
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I e-mailed the guy who runs the barefeats.com website and asked him about this….how many people reported this and how did they prove it was the monitor and not something else causing the skipped frames.
He e-mailed me back saying he had ONE well documented case, and that it dropped frames on FCP and on several games the user tried to play. When he dropped the resolution to a lower setting and switched to 75hz, the problem went away.
So this happened to one guy…or maybe a couple, and could easily be a conflict with the monitor and something else…seeing that every other person I have heard from with this monitor has no problems whatsoever.
It is a rumor that is spreading too darn fast.
Shane Ross
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[Shane Ross] “It is a rumor that is spreading too darn fast.”
Agreed, I have not seen the problems that this doc is claiming either and I run the 24″ Dell.
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