Dual-monitor is the way to go ^^, I just received 2 20"'s for Christmas ^^. So much Desktop.

Apple eat your heart out. gorgeous, about time the other mfg got some design balls.

Bah, if you're going to make an uber monitor why not make it 24" 1920x1200?!

Dead link to meh.

And its probably not a 24" because the monitor was designed so many years ago, and they are probably selling all the pre-release versions they made that worked perfectly but "weren't ready for the public", or, in Dell monitor terms, had abso-freaking-lutely terrible firmware.

This beats that sleek mac crap any day..

is it legal to have sex w/ monitors?

Interesting but I'd be much happier if they were working on larger screens - 36-40"

I'll take the monitor minus all the clutter.

goddamn it. the teaser picture was photoshopped to have a super thin bezel, but the product picture is just a normal dell monitor with a plastic rim.

Went from sex kitten to archivist-with-3-kids in 4 seconds flat.

The only reason to have that is the thin bezel. what a fuck up.

I'd still get an apple cinema display. that is, if Apple ever figures out that Justin Long is a unalluring fuckstick and gets him the fuck off my screens.

Its beautiful...... i must touch..

This is just ugly. This is worse than when Apple use to cover everything with clear acrylic (ie. the powermac g4 cube + accessories). but then again... you guys thought the halo 3 themed Zune was cool looking.

Hahaha, 1200 bucks for a 22" LCD. Cheap-ass Dell fanboys will never buy this.

so, we've been hearing lately how LCD manufacturers have difficulty making profit since panels have been dropping in price...

I guess (if anybody buys this thing) Dell has found the answer: add some catchy design that uses materials costing *maybe* $100, and increase the price by 4x from $300 to $1200. Wonderful.

If I was in the market for a new monitor, I'd just wait until that 98% color gamut, 2ms response time, and 2000:1 contrast ratio finds its place in a normal-looking monitor in 4 months and buy that for $250.

wow.... wow that puts apples monitor to shame... and im a mac fanboy...

Just looking at those pics is arousing - you actually want to touch and stroke it

Wow $1200 dollars is awfully expensive considering the other Dell 22inch with soundbar and webcam (and not as attractive and screen specs probably not as good, but still good enough for everyone who isn't in the print business) is about $350

Link to other Dell 22 incher that I purchased for a present this xmas: [accessories.us.dell.com]

It really looks great in person. The LCD has a glass screen unlike the previous 30inch and 24inch generations.

Holy crap that looks awesome.

@Caidence: True that. The narrow bezle looks sexy, while the "real" picture looks nasty. It looks like someone glued plexiglass to a normal Dell monitor. Sorry to everyone who's parade I rained on...

And about this monitor... the link is down and it is nowhere to be found of Dell's site... maybe Dell is being a silly goose...

The most beautiful thing ever. This screen would actually get me laid if i showed it around. Sleek. Sexy. And to have the speakers and buttons like that, what girl wouldn't dig 5 min with a "millionaire" like me.

ugly..

ill continue enjoying my fpw2005

This thing has 'wow' factor (ooh, look at the floating speakers), but it really isn't that attractive in person. It's quite ugly actually.

From the proportions, it looks like a TV, and from a design point it is more suited to that sort of device, but this is a 22" monitor with really cheap speakers hanging off of it, with goofy right angle embedded wiring straight out of the '80s.

The design breaks a lot of common proportion sense, such as the base needing to be longer than the top, and is an incoherent collection of design ideas: a gloss black, matte black, brush metal, shiny metal, some glass and disruptive wiring. No design aspect reflects or plays off another, such that it is at best the sum of its parts, and not more. It's really just a normal monitor with a highly non-functional glass frame glued on it to take up more of your desk space.

How many of you remember this?
[metku.net]

I'm glad to see this come to market only because it will spur the other manufacturers to make some nice designs in the near future. When we can buy a floating monitor, with the display literally painted on thin air, as a society, we will have arrived, I'll settle for something like this for now.

meh, it'd be cooler if it didn't look like they took a regular monitor and put a fat piece of glass on the front of it and some tri pod legs. I'm lookin for a monitor thats similar to the ones on the movie 'children of men,' which shouldn't be too far fetched from the near future.

I like the design myself. I'm mystified as to how some people can talk about it being "quite ugly actually," "in person." In person? Egads. They should work for Gizmodo, as they see this stuff way before anyone else. I'm just working off the pics ... went to the website and couldn't find any there. Which makes me wonder how some noobe can say the speakers are cheap. Cheap? Pray tell, how is that determination reached? Because they're small? Or round? Don't tell Orb.

@ Japala. Oh yeah. What about the Bravia?

I think I'll pass I'd rather spend a little more and get a 30 incher.

@Vash21: Only if it's over 18 inches!

floating lcd in glass = win ..this? far from it.

This looks terrible. Looks very ugly, tacky and cheap. Plus you can wank all over the specs but it really comes down to looking at it in person. I've yet to see another monitor that is as bright and crisp as the apple cinema display, especially not from dell.

Plus there is the fact that a lot of Dell monitors end up being complete lemons and they aren't exactly known for their customer service and.. I just want to stay faaaar away.

"My god... it's full of speakers..."

Well, it does look "nice" or at least it's a definite eye-catcher.

But at that price-point, wicked design or no, I wouldn't settle for anything less than full HD.

Still, nice to see Dell going in new directions.

I've never seen some simple plastic/glass give so many people hard-ons. I'm calling ugly on it, also, overly huge.

It is a beautiful elegant monitor. I tried to visit the site but the page no longer exists...uh oh Dell!

Oooooh shiny.... I want one.

This looks great, but they better implement some anti-static dust rejecting miracle into this thing, otherwise it won't look that great after a few days.
On second thought, why spend so much money for a screen with crappy tweeters?

LOL. Regarding the "thinner looking bezel" in the promo shot - it's called FORESHORTENING people. Get over it.

@CAIDENCE: Congrats for the most blatant, obligatory post pandering to "Gizmodo Snarky Factor" requirements. YFY (Yay For You! - cool, i just made that up)

"Dell now available in beautiful"

@Caidence: You got it - the two photos are of completely different products.

@ LittleSavage: You fail the observation test. Look at the first photo. On the top center there's a floating black circle in the transparent ("glass") material. Camera? Logo? Status light? Who cares; look now at the 2nd photo. The black bezel surrounding the monitor itself is thick enough to incorporate this circle. Additionally, look at the color of the speakers. Black on the bottom, all ALU on the top. Foreshortening my ass, that 2nd photo is an ugly piece of crap compared to the first photo.

@bobdobbs: I agree... now if the outer shell was cardboard...

@car47: Yeah, the first image is the "ideal prototype", the second is "reality" and cost effectiveness." Dell is trying, but they may never get it.

Now if they'd only do something about their logo...

2ms response time only respectable? I thought 8 was standard 4 was awesome and 2 was zomgwtfbbq

Nicely done, Dell. I wish the conductor lines were silver instead of black, and your logo is still pug-fugly, but this is really something special.

This is what the all in one XPS should have been.

about time dell started selling stuff that doesn't look like ass.

@CAR47: Ok, i'll grant you the placement of that webcam/circle outside of the bezel. However, i still stand by the foreshortening statement, as it's practically a head-on shot.

Being a 3d pro (Film, commercials) I can be pretty skeptical over these product shots but really find it totally amusing when ya'll start screaming "Photoshop" based on less than stellar criteria.

This is the best they can do? Slap a big piece of glass on the front of a black box? Take up all sorts of non-useable space?

And some people even think this beats Apple's design? Well, here's what Jobs says about design:

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

How does all that lipstick on a corpse make it work better? Less monitor real estate for lots more money than Apple's 23" 1920x1200 (quite old) monitor?

@LEICAMAN

Awwww....look the apple fanboi is crying because someone other then apple had designed a cool looking LCD.

@leicaman:
I'm with you, this is just meaningless waving of arms.

I think it's great. Get's the speakers off the desk and incorporates a good helping of "wow". It looks as good on as off, which no Apple monitor (or other Dell) can claim.

That said... 1680x1050!? For $1200 I expect 1080p. Heck, for $800 I expect 1080p. (Apple's price)

This monitor is an old 60s Beetle tarted up to look like a Tesla Roadster. Bleh.

Man, this will look pretty as a second monitor for my new iMac. :D

Man, that sure will look nice as a second display connected to my new iMac. :D

From an artistic standpoint cool, but that is all in my opinion. I would prefer to use my own speakers first off. While im at it, why wont Plasma/LCD manufactures get a clue and make speakers optional? I would prefer a thin bezel and use speakers of better quality and my own choosing. Sorry for my rant. If Dell wants to impress, do something about those ugly black/gray towers.

AT LONG LAST! A monitor truly worthy of the Bang and Olufsen name in every sense!!! Oh wait.

Ok, so let me see. Its a regular monitor with a big piece of glass over the front of it. With old school sound stick (harmon kardon) speakers sticking out of the over hanging sides of the screen. WITH mind you lines (speaker wires) that are visible going to them. Same as with the control buttons. And people think this is hot? Not to mention better then Apples displays? Whatever.

This looks like something sony would make but, would make it look better. Its not solid, so Apple would not come up with something like this. Its techno cool at best, but not sexy. If Apple were to make something similar, it would be solid, and not have anything like those speakers being seen (front or back). What Apple would do like this would be similar to there older Cinema displays. If they were to go with the GLASS look, you wouldn't see any connection wires, cause they wouldn't build them in, its a waste. It would not have a dark or black backing, cause the contrast is too much from clear to black to look at all day. Not attractive in a monitor in my opinion. It would either be white or aluminum. To keep the lightness of it and make it seem more uniform.

Its not something I would go out and buy. Sorry.

Blah blah blah!

It will burn out in 3 years, like everything else Dell makes!

Besides, who on earth would buy a monitor without HDMI and 1080p?

Oops, it does have HDMI, ok ya got me there!

@littleSavage: You still seem to be missing something...perhaps you're misinterpreting the complaint others are making about the bezel.

From Wikipedia (I'm not trying to be patronizing...but for other readers, this might be helpful): "Foreshortening refers to the visual effect or optical illusion that an object or distance is shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer."

Foreshortening means, then, that the bezel should appear wider in a head-on shot, and smaller in the angled shot.

That is not the case here. The top, Head-On shot that people suspect is photoshopped shows about a 1/4" bezel, if that. The lower image, which is angled and is the suspected "real thing" shows a much wider bezel. If anything, the angle would make it look narrower. "Foreshortening" doesn't explain away the problem at all.

The argument isn't over whether one item is photoshopped or not...both may be real-life prototype photos. But the bezel of the first picture is clearly MUCH narrower than the second photo...and without a Dell link/photo/page, we don't know which is the "real" available product.

Interestingly, I did find this old gizmodo article:
[gizmodo.com]

While that had an entirely different point, talking about a super-high resolution display, it seems to show a photo of the narrow-bezel version sitting on a desk. Maybe the narrow bezel is what the real product will look like after all?

Most of the "wow" was lost between the ideal rendering and the actual product. The bezel on the real product is clearly about double the size of the concept piece. Most of the sleekness is lost. It's a cool idea, execution is flawed. I think the foreshortening caused by the high angle of the picture in fact hurts the concept.

This is an OK looking monitor. The thing that ruins it is the big thick black inner frame.. or simply put the monitor. Basically looks like Dell put a glass frame around a normal monitor. Such innovations like higher resuolution/refresh rates or LED instead of LCD is definitely favored and not completed on this mon