Asus PW191 LCD Review

Tom's Hardware has quite the flattering review of one of the latest LCDs coming from Asus, the Asus PW191. From the review: "I won't mince words. The PW191 is the handsomest monitor I've ever seen. It's true that people's tastes vary, but no one can deny that the Asus designers have talent. While a lot of their competitors are using a white Macintosh look for lack of better ideas, Asus is innovating, offering designs that are both personal and novel. And they've applied that know-how to good effect in designing the PW191. The monitor's lines are superb, and the choice of colors is elegant and restrained."

Do they make one

[m4c north]

without the tiny tinny speakers?

heh...

[g1bb0ns]

They just HAD to add speakers....

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What's with the pheedo link?

[asnare]

So, um, what's with the link to the article bouncing off pheedo.com? I'd assume the submitter was trying to make a few bucks from referrals, but no-one is attributed. (Maybe that means ScuttleMonkey is?)

Weird...

- Andrew

It looks like a monitor

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't believe people are sat around discussing the aesthetics of a monitor that looks just like every other flat screen monitor on the market. It looks like a monitor. It has all the bits a monitor typically has in the same place that a monitor typically has them. That's it.

Ugly

[Bloater]

What an ugly monitor, inch thick bevel, eighties shiny brushed base. It has a semi-retro "lampstand" feel that could have really worked (especially if it had a wall attachment or desk clamp) but is poorly executed looking a cheap childs toy.

Re:Nice selective quoting

[Das Modell]

So, it's a good monitor, apart from the LCD panel. Forgive me if I don't rush out to get one... (Or am I completely out of touch and all LCD monitors are this bad?)

I've yet to find an LCD monitor that's as good as a CRT and isn't ridiculously expensive. If I were to buy a new monitor now, I'd probably go for a CRT. I just can't understand what's supposed to be so great about LCDs - they're either too expensive and/or suited to only one task.

yay, a silver base

[green pizza]

Umm, it's a regular black plastic LCD monitor with a metalic silver base. Wh00p.

The real question: is this slashvertisment for Toms Hardware or for Asus? Or for both?

Form over Function

[Solder Fumes]

Slashdot is a site that should be praising developments in technical ability, not slightly overdesigned monitors that suck in actual usage.

ScuttleMonkey, you can get away with this shit, but that doesn't mean we are going to eat it. I gradually get to the point of almost subscribing, and then another stunt like this comes along.

Widescreen Resolution

[LiquidCoooled]

My boss just got himself a widescreen LCD (against my better judgement of course) now he's discovering the main drawback for people who use their machines like we do.

Its a lovely display, running local applications in the natural resolution (1440 x 900) is a pleasure to the eyes and having the extra width is nice, however he spends approximately 50% of his day using VNC onto machines with 1280*1024 displays.
This wasn't a problem before because he could just full screen it, now all I hear is muffled cursing because the screen no longer fits.
Its amusing really, and proves sometimes higher sounding specs really aren't all they are cracked up to be.

Re:Uhh you LIKE that look?!

[penguin-collective]

The thing looks like a late 80's television...

Great! Then it will be in style again right after the rounded-white-plastic look that Apple revived from the 1970's will seem old (Apple already has gotten past the 1960's big bold colors and flowers look).

Nice try, no cigar

[FishandChips]

Posting a story whose link bounces off an intermediate website is dishonest without an explanation as to why. The assumption is that someone is exploiting Slashdot readers to score referral dollars. It is really no different from a journalist who buys shares in a company the day before he writes an article saying how wonderful it is. The next day he sells the shares. I hope I am wrong about this and look forward to ScuttleMonkey adding a note of explanation to the summary.

I'd already seen this article. It is a minor piece of no great interest and pretty well tells the reader not to buy the monitor anyway because Asus have put a crap screen inside a very nice case.

Links in summaries should include their [domain]

[chocolatetrumpet]

Links in summaries should include their [domain], just like any slashdot post.

As long as we're going that far, perhaps the summaries should also be moderated... :P

Re:Nice try, no cigar

[jalefkowit]

It's interesting how links in the comments have their domain listed right next to them, to foil this sort of thing, but links in the stories do not.

The assumption must have been that a Slashdot editor wouldn't do something like route links through a middleman. Bad assumption, it would appear...