Since my last computer was a laptop of sorts, It has actually been about 6 years since I’ve extensively sat behind a monitor, and back then 17″ 1440×900 was the thing everyone had, and if they were loaded they might have been running dual screens on their $4000 machines.
I went and picked up, most likely to my biased preferences, a 21.5″ LCD monitor from Asus (MH226H featured in the picture) from Tiger Direct at Kennedy (which on a note, no longer offers cash discounts). Yes, the 1080p spec caught my attention. More importantly this line of slim ergonomic monitors is what really made me choose this over the Samsung and LG that I had also scouted out.
If you look carefully, you’ll notice that this monitor ditches the conventional T-stand that you see in most monitors and opts for a more ergonomic circle to both support and adjust the monitor’s position. Does it look ridiculous in the picture? I thought so. Does it feel steady in real life? Indeed it does!
Since my computer isn’t actually up and running, I took the opportunity to run my PS3 through it just to check if everything was in order. To put things into perspective, this thing feels like the smaller brother of my LCD TV at home (which measures at 46″). Unfortunately my PS3 was still set to 5.1 audio, which completely threw things off when the audio was being passed to 2.0 speakers, and thus I did not do anything extensively on the PS3 except return it to the TV.
Now all I need to do is to play some of my Steam games on it to see what it’s like.