Acer X223WbD 22" Wide 1680 X 1050 Resolution LCD-blk

Some people are complaining about the color and brightness. Guys, the monitor is energy star. Which means that they do something to the monitor to cause it to save energy. However, even though the monitor doesn't show the full specs that come with it, it still has a pretty high contrast ratio and 16 million colors. To help these specs show on your monitor, you need to set it within your graphic card's control panel. The contrast ratio on this is 25000:1 and that's is pretty good considering some of the more expensive monitors have 20000:1 contrast. Set your contrast to 70% and increase digital vibrance to the desired amount. The vibrance itself is increasing the sharpness and clairity of the image. It intensifies the color giving that sharpness that people like. I believe the reasons why people are complaining about this monitors picture quality is because they are running the monitor at its manufactured default settings. You have to manually make use of the actual ability of the...Read more

I bought this monitor because my Apple 20-inch Cinema Display had apparently failed. But it turns out when I hooked up the Acer monitor, I saw exactly the same horizontal lines that I saw with my Apple display. What a bummer, but I was glad my Apple display was okay. I replaced my G5 PowerMac with a Mac mini and both monitors worked great. I will be returning the Acer to Amazon, but I would highly recommend it. I was reluctant to try another monitor, as the Apple Cinema Display is about as good as it gets, but this Acer is definitely up to the task.

Update: I bought a second Mac Mini and decided to keep the Acer monitor. Viewing and editing photographs are important uses for me, and the colors and sharpness are great. I used the DVI port for input and have made no adjustments at all. The Mac immediately recognized the Acer, and I did not need to install any drivers or anything else.

I just received this monitor yesterday to replace a Samsung 21.5" that was dying after only 2 years of use.
I tend to over-research these types of purchases and did so with this one. In the end I could care less about speakers, USB hubs, or HDMI ports (I'll not be watching TV on my PC), so the fact that this monitor does not have those things was fine by me.
I ended up paying $164.00 to my door and could not be happier. I installed a new video card with a DVI port and was up and running easily without installing the software that came with monitor.
I have found the colors to be bright and accurate, and text to be vivid, and there were no dead pixels. The on-screen adjustments are easy to navigate after a few minutes of getting used to them. My only knock on the monitor so far is the lack of height adjustment, but that is becoming common place these days, especially in the sub $300 market.
I have looked high and low, and for the money I am not sure you can beat...Read more