LED Monitors? Recommand me something anyway!

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So, I've decided that I need to sort out a desktop for my home office now. Working from 3 laptops is getting tiresome. So I need a monitor...

It'll be for a variety of things, work stuff first off (which is a lot of visio work, some coding and some modelling stuff) and personal stuff second (which will be photo editing, browsing and playing occassional video etc...). Basically I'm in need of a decent amount of screen space.

I've never been wild about widescreen so I've been considering a 1600x1200 20" or a normal 24" widescreen. I'll happilly spend £500 or a little more for the best about...

What does everyone reckon, my current thinking is the HP LP2475w or the Samsung XL20.

Which leads to my last question, I know LED screens are good in notebooks as they do battery life some good, is there a power saving for desktop monitors as well?
 
They're not as such LED monitors, just LCDs with LED backlights, but about the power saving - you would think so, but in practice when I've seen power consumption figures from LED backlit desktop monitors they've been dissapointingly around the same as CCFL backlit monitors.

I would guess the reason is they're all high end monitors with loads of fancy electronics in them, and that's cancelling out any saving from the LED backlight.

TBH though power consumption isn't that high with desktop LCD monitors, my 20" 300cd/m2 Dell 2007WFP (16:10) only uses 40W. Maybe steer clear of 500cd/m2 screens if you want to keep power consumption down, plus they're too bright anyway IMO.
 
fish99 said:
They're not as such LED monitors, just LCDs with LED backlights, but about the power saving - you would think so, but in practice when I've seen power consumption figures from LED backlit desktop monitors they've been dissapointingly around the same as CCFL backlit monitors.

I would guess the reason is they're all high end monitors with loads of fancy electronics in them, and that's cancelling out any saving from the LED backlight.

TBH though power consumption isn't that high with desktop LCD monitors, my 20" 300cd/m2 Dell 2007WFP (16:10) only uses 40W. Maybe steer clear of 500cd/m2 screens if you want to keep power consumption down, plus they're too bright anyway IMO.
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Thats much as I expected really. A shame but at least it means I won't be tempted to shell out on one of the expensive LED backlit screens. Part of my work at the moment is consulting on carbon neutral IT so it's a practice what I preach motivation rather than a need to save electricity...
 
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Nice one, thanks for that mate!

So given a reasonably large budget and no preference yet between 20" and 24" (I won't do 22" as it's the same res as 20" so whats the point), what does everyone think the best monitor is these days?
 
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