EQC

And for those of you comparing it to Apple....Not only does Apple create superior products, they build eco-systems around it...

Think about it -

megaboz

Not only does apple build (on the majority) a great product, they build eco-systems around their product-line.

Think about that for a minute.

megaboz

Might be a bit more "wow" in person, but...no. Just no. The Dell logo, the speakers.. the seemingly fat black bevel (in the second picture).

All this would tell me sitting on your desk is that money can't buy taste.

tokiwartooth

Just sayin'.

stellar678

nvee

littleSavage

KoolAidMan

You are better off spending $1200 on an NEC 2490WUXi or $900 on a 23" Apple Cinema Display, both using H-IPS and S-IPS panels (or wait a few weeks for the updated H-IPS displays that Apple will release soon).

Again, overpriced garbage here. You are basically paying for a pretty bezel with crap for guts.

KoolAidMan

Ian

digitol

esenk

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?

EQC

Loremaster101

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

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

Loremaster101

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.

djphat2000

Buford T. Justice

MorganRW

middlelurch

NightElfMohawk

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.

shawn_dude

islandmonk

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

Bovine

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

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.

littleSavage

firesign

brianhatch

macserv

demonwolf

pete

@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.

tamoko

@ 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.

car47

bms

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

littleSavage

aerials

Inspector Gadget

iiviip3

tutelary

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.

Blue_Six

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.

Cid_d

Zodduska

ab3

gamecrazychris

@ Japala. Oh yeah. What about the Bravia?

lianna_g

Retlawmacpro

TNTBW

Japala

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.

ludwigk

ill continue enjoying my fpw2005

89macrunner

travisfreak

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...

kermani

stonedbeyondthepoint

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.

fusiongt

SEARCH ENGINES

JustinD

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.

EQC

bobdobbs

thirty6chambers

DJJS

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.

Caidence

showdoc

boe

Vash21

Katorok

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.

Jomanscool2

Roflcopter_Down: Wants you to follow HIM!

migsims

Tw33kR