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."

Comments

Those fat borders are ugly.

[podz]

The fat borders around the screen are really not nice, IMO. I wait for the day when somebody makes a monitor with zero border. I just bought a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleoview C19-1W, same design as the W19-1 in the picture, and it only has a 1.5cm border.

Uhh you LIKE that look?!

[Manip]

I have a ViewSonic monitor in front of me from a couple of years ago, it is mixed black and silver ... Personally I find the look of this large CRT monitor to be superior to that thin acer one.

The black plastic, beyond looking cheap, also has sharp edges which is very old fashioned... As is the polished base... The thing looks like a late 80's television...

I wouldn't buy that monitor just because of the way it looks. Dell, Apple and some of ViewSonic's range look far more attractive. As do some of the other monitors in Acer's range.

Re:What's with the pheedo link?

[layer3switch]

$ curl -I 'http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=2f7b00fedef1b1 aaf8f53264f52ab593'
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:51:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.5-2pheedo1.1
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=e775b0954ac069d8a92b7f4de89cd184; path=/; domain=pheedo.com
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Location: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/04/21/asus_pw191_ lcd/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

$ curl -I 'http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i='
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:55:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.5-2pheedo1.1
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=cbb0abd047cf9f72646099df2cb484a2; path=/; domain=pheedo.com
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Location: http://topix.net/r/0B=2Finhu=2B2pR5VWZkYknE0WZiWNL 0NhCfT8=2B9MWL6oIElKGAsgk1kPisf=2F=2F3R2SI5DquuKsf TXudof3cRdeIuzMw=3D=3D
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Ah, so we are getting somewhere! http://www.topix.net/ is probably where ScuttleMonkey gets his news from.
http://www.topix.net/search/?q=Asus+PW191&x=0&y=0

$ curl -I "http://www.topix.net/r/0R96orA8cnXCv3fD02tmzS76ey BdqIGSBCIHxhH9xHFC=2FppW1YhQ75XPwaejjkpr1RcmsITzvT KfplNztrejYeawM8mKPHJGAXXxWCRuULi8=3D"
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:59:09 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) (Gentoo/Linux) mod_perl/1.27
Location: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/04/21/asus_pw191_ lcd/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Heh... go figure...

Tell me about it!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Criticisms

[Nexum]

Well, it may catch the eye at first, but that is not necessarily a sign of beneficial ergonomics.

Two things that are noticeable within the first second:

- The base is exceptionally shiny, bear in mind that this is something that you are designed to stare at for hours on end, shiny is a big no-no. There are consumer reports of people patching up the tiny little chrome Apple symbol on Apple's screens because they reflect light and distract. This thing will likely be much worse.

- The bezel around the screen is amazingly thick - it may be because it houses speakers - but considering these are only 19" screens, and all of the noise being made recently about dual monitors ("30% Performance increase" etc. etc.), these look like very poor performers when it comes to using more than one together. That bezel x 2 must be over a couple inches thick.