Item : B001TH7FAG Customer Reviews Dell S2409W Monitor by .. D. Barber (Tacoma.Wash.) I recently decided to upgrade my HP Pavilion computers 17 inch CRT monitor to a roomier 24 inch LCD screen. After much research I settled on the Dell S2409W. After buying the monitor for some $311 from Amazon I was horrified to discover that Dell offered the same product, during a missed two-day sale, for about $200 including free shipping! There's a lesson there, always check the manufacturers site for special offers. The C-NET site gave this model high ratings but commented on it having an unsteady or wobbly base. I found that the base is heavy metal and quite secure. Maybe they upgraded it. There are several points to be shared. First, the monitors rated 1920x1080 resolution makes text too small for comfortable reading. My computers older integrated graphics could only approach this setting at 1280x768. This produces a nice image and no distortion but the image is more detailed at my current setting of 1600x900. To get this setting, I had to replace my integrated graphics with a new graphics card. I selected the eVGA 512 (see my Amazon review). There is one annoying feature, a blue line about the width of a pencil line along the bottom border of the screen. In analog VGA mode you can control vertical height and make the line vanish off-screen, but in digital DVI mode, the monitor locks in these settings. I can find nothing on the Dell site to remove the line, which seems to be firmware installed. I mostly don't notice it though. Also annoying, is that this type of LCD screen called a TN, has contrast which shifts slightly with viewing angle. The top of the screen seems to have more contrast than the bottom. The effect is subtle and on the whole I don't notice it, but if Dell gave the monitor just 5 degrees more tilt backward, the overall image would be much better. Why didn't they do this? Foolish mistake. I put a pencil under the front of the base. It's steady and improves the image a bit. You may think that I am unhappy with this monitor, quite the contrary, it works beautifully and I'm glad that I have it. Still, if your interest is in the internet more that movies, I think a screen with a 16:10 aspect ration is much preferred. This one is 16:9. Check your computer for support at 1600x900. This is the setting that you will actually use and since I saw virtually no difference in detail between VGA and DVI, I may go back to analog to get more control over things like vertical height. I will conclude by saying that this monitor gives a beautiful image quality and aside from the worlds most unintuitive controls (a study in rotten design), I think this monitor is a winner. Now if Dell would just add 5 degrees of tilt and give us manual overide in DVI mode... Wow !! Nice Monitor by .. siraj mistry (Newbury Park , CA) This is a great monitor, shame amazon is selling it for more than Dell.com. It is $50 cheaper at Dell. I have some gift certificate's that I have to use and will wait for Amazon to lower it's prices to match Dell.com. I am sure that most people will go to Dell.com.