

Gateway XHD3000 30-inch LCD  (Source: Gateway)
Dell and HP have competition in the 30" LCD territory







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This monitor... is -nice-...
By Deathspawner on 10/5/2007 12:26:13 AM , Rating: 2
I saw this monitor last week at DigitalLife and have to say that it's easily one of the best monitors I've ever seen. I've been using Dell's 30" HC monitor for the past two months, and though it costs less than Gateway's latest offering, there is no comparison between the two.

The upscaling of the XHD3000 was simply incredible. I admit I am not a monitor guru, but the quality of the upscaler was undeniable. When Bioshock was run in 1920x1200... I had a hard time telling the difference when compared to 2560x1600. Even the fonts were still perfectly rendered. At lower resolutions, the differences are even more meaningful. It's almost a GPU upgrade, though I assume that people who own a $1700 LCD likely have better than a mid-range GPU anyway.

Add all the connectivity possibilities and the brightness (this is far brighter than Dell's), and this is one killer monitor. Just for the record, I am not a Gateway rep, but I did cover the monitor briefly in this article:

RE: This monitor... is -nice-...
By P4blo on 10/5/2007 7:56:41 AM , Rating: 2
That's a serious bit of kit! When you think about it... there's no reason why when you upscale a 1920 image to a 2560 why you cant have a form of natural anti-aliasing when you have twice the pixels available than the GFX is using.

Good job Gateway, now if only I hadn't bought this Dell 30" (which till now I've been utterly thrilled with).


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