Gateway Goes for Style Points with Three New Ultra-Slim LED Monitors
Gateway Goes for Style Points with Three New Ultra-Slim LED Monitors
Posted 10/05/2010 at 5:15am
| by Paul Lilly
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The last time we spent any quality time with a Gateway monitor was when the company burst into the 30-inch panel scene with its awesome XHD3000 (see our review here). It was an incredible display, albeit long since discontinued.
Gateway didn't exit the monitor scene, it just isn't producing ginormous displays. Gateway is, however, launching three new ultra-slim LED monitors -- the 21.5-inch FHX2152L, 24-inch FHX2402L, and 23-inch FHD2303L.
"These new Gateway monitors give consumers a choice in style and functionality when choosing a monitor for their home or office," said Irene Chan, senior product marketing manager for peripherals, Acer America. "All three models offer advanced display technology that meets a wide variety of viewing needs combined with the power-saving features and an eco-friendly design that are important to today's consumers."
All three monitors sport a 1920x1080 resolution and, for what it's worth, a 12,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. Both FHX models feature a 2ms response time, while the FHD is rated at 5ms.
The FHD2303L ($250), FHX2402L ($250) and FHX2152L ($190) will ship later this month.
Image Credit: Gateway
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COMMANDER_COOK
October 05, 2010 at 8:59pm
You might want to make sure that this monitor isn't one that breaks after a year or two like the XHD3000 apparently was.
Read the comments on that article you linked.
Peanut Fox
October 05, 2010 at 12:59pm
What's with the fetish of 1920x1080 16:9? Be nice to see panel makers make monitors that are for PCs, and aren't just modified TVs. Screen aside, the design is very appealing.
Obsidian
October 05, 2010 at 10:19am
The cantilevered stand seems goofy to me. It may imply that there’s no standard VESA mount on this thing, which makes it useless for people employing monitor arms and mounts. Gateway doesn’t scream quality to me, but a proper review of this display line will tell the tail.
What I want to know is why more monitors aren’t being developed with LED backlighting technology. For the price I paid for my Dell 24-inch IPS monitors they probably should have had a much slimmer profile.
da_samman
October 05, 2010 at 9:54am
Please review these monitors, Maximum PC. Let's see if these are game worthy at least.
V/R,
SGT Samuel E. McClard II
Keith E. Whisman
October 05, 2010 at 5:51am
It's very important that you specify whether they are IPS or TN Displays, as an IPS display is very much supperior to an TN display. Now that 23"-24" IPS displays can be had for less than $300 bucks, it's very important to find out if your getting as good a deal as it appears. You can't just say look at the price anymore.
Thanks Paul for the article, I'm really excited about the falling prices and improving monitor technology. Now you get a lot of computer hardware for you $1 dollar.
Paul_Lilly
October 05, 2010 at 7:20am
The press release doesn't say, but at those price points, there's no way they're using IPS panels.
-Paul Lilly
Keith E. Whisman
October 05, 2010 at 10:26am
A month ago I would have agreed with you, but Newegg has 23" 1080P IPS panels for less than $300 bucks, so it's not such an impossibility. Take a look at Newegg, just do a search for IPS and look at the glory the pops up. Surely a sign of the end of the world.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=ips&x=0&y=0 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000020&IsNodeId=1&Description=ips&name=LCD%20Monitors
One display is $289 and the other is $329
Paul_Lilly
October 05, 2010 at 11:04am
Good detective work. Incidentally, we reviewed the $289 Viewsonic you allude to. Hopefully the trend continues.
As for the Gateways, I still think $250 (24-inch and 23-inch) and $190 (21.5-inch) is too low to expect an IPS panel just yet, though you're right, we have to be getting close. That, and I suspect Gateway's PR team would have been all over the IPS pimpage if these monitors were using one of those panels. I wouldn't mind at all if I'm wrong, though.
-Paul Lilly
Keith E. Whisman
October 05, 2010 at 1:33pm
What do you think is the reason why IPS monitors are dropping in price? Is it because they have been able to lower the cost of manufacturing IPS panels and figured out how to do it on a large mass production scheme? Probably both are true.
I agree, these panels are probably TN displays, like you said, their PR would be screaming IPS all over the box. Hopefully IPS will become the next selling point, replacing "Contrast Ratio". :)
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