Update: March list available!
As always, the new month can’t be complete without the top 5 list here at LCDMonitorBlog.com. Can’t walk past the fact that every month monitors pop up on the top 5 list that I don’t consider to be worth buying anymore. Simply put, any desktop monitor that isn’t 1920×1080 Full-hd should at least make you raise an eyebrow. LED-Backlit technology — albeit not strictly mandatory — is also a factor I use to manually overwrite the list.
Digital input these days is a must. There are so many signal sources that require digital input on a monitor that I can’t recommend a TFT monitor in good conscience without it.
Let’s get on with the monthly top 5, here are the winners :
1. -1920 x 1080 full-hd
-LED-backlit
-DVI/VGA inputs
-$149.99
ViewSonic fights itself for the first position on the popularity list, sending the VX2250WM-LED and the VX2450WM against one another. Whichever wins, you’re pretty well off with it.
-Exactly like the one above, but bigger.
-$179.99
The second should have been HP’s S2031, but I don’t want to encourage anyone to buy a monitor that’s not 1080p. Or LED-backlit. Instead, here’s the exact replica of the VX2250WM-LED, only bigger.
3. HP 2711x
-27″
-LED-backlit
-1920×1080
-VGA,DVI-D, HDMI (plays nice with recent Mac Minis)
-$319.90
Big, reasonably cheap and brings all the connectors to the table you’ll need. Well, not thunderbolt, but you weren’t expecting that, were you?
4. ASUS VH236H
-23″
-1920×1080
-VGA, DVI-D, HDMI
-$167.99
Cheaper than VX2450WM-LED, but delivers HDMI, which the Viewsonic display doesn’t. Too bad it’s not LED-backlit. If it was, it would easily snatch the #1 poisition.
-27″
-2560×1440
-LED-backlit
-Replicates ports through thunderbolt (gigabit ethernet, another thunderbolt, USB, firewire, you name it)
-$968
These bad-boys sell like hot cakes. Okay, they don’t, but they are still freakin’ awesome. And popular. Relative to the asking price of course.
If you have a Mac Mini with thunderbolt, a Macbook Air that you want to soup up or hang around with a Macbook Pro 2011, you’ll love it. It’s about as good as expensive it is.
I hope you found something for yourself above. Those of you who didn’t, feel free to browse around the site!