Dell Professional P2411H 24" Widescreen LED LCD Monitor - Black

This is my 3rd LCD Dell Wide screen…
- Laptop Dell D620
- Work desktop UltraSharp 2007FP 20 inch
- Home desktop Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24 inch

This is the best one.

I feel like I wrap myself in the monitor when I use it because it is so big. It looks cool, makes my friends jealous and I love it. But hey, are those reasons to buy a monitor… no.

24 inch wide screen at 1920 by 1200 is perfect. I was worried it would be too small or too big, but like baby bear’s porridge, it is right on. Not sure if Macs pioneered that resolution at that screen size, but it is dead on. Bright screen, tons of inputs (only really use one of them right now if you do not count the VGA backup), clean bevel, great picture, and great price.

Problems (Not many)…
- All of the dell monitors limit me on this, but I do not understand why I cannot do PIP with the VGA and DVI inputs. I have a dual head card and would like to watch my videos on the pip screen easier. rrrr….
- The VGA runs on all the standard resolutions, but the DVI input seems to only run on the 1920 by 1200 resolution. This kind of sucks because the windows startup screen is in 640x480 and the screen is dark during boot up. If I ever had a problem, I would just switch to the VGA connection, but also kind of lame.
- Wish the USB replication would not turn off when the monitor turned off

One nice treat is the card reader on the side of the screen. Use it all the time.

Hope that helps.

I already owned a 2405FPW at home and needed one for my office (as they have us programming on tiny laptop screens). I had just purchased the new 2408WFP from Dell to take to the office and was appalled at the poor defective condition it was in (and I paid $750 for it – which I will be getting back). I loved my old 2405FPW so much, but it had been discontinued for about 2 years.
Right now eBay is the only place to still snatch one of these up, which I have recently done and my second monitor looks just as great at the one I bought direct from Dell 3 years ago. I just don't get it, they made the perfect LCD Screen in the 2405FPW, and everything since then has been pretty crappy (even with faster response times, HDMI ports, HDCP, and a higher color gamut). It must be Dell cutting corners, because back then they had the right formula when they made the 2405FPW.
I plugged in my High Def cable box using the component cables for 1080i clarity, and it was a sight to behold. The monitor even has a picture in picture (PIP), so I can use it as a regular computer monitor and have TV playing in a small corner of my huge screen. When I'd see my program start, or something that would catch my eye, I could easily switch to it.
Also you can't beat the card reader and USB 2.0 hub this thing has - talk about convenience - How could I possibly throw down money again on a monitor that doesn't have this?!?! It may not seem like a deal-breaker to you, but once you use a monitor like this, it's pure-pain thinking about doing without it. Note: I have an IOGear Keyboard-Video-Monitor (KVM) Switch that I use to switch my monitor between computers. I also bought a separate IOGear USB 2.0 switch to switch the Monitor's USB hub as well.
I compared the 2405FPW to my recently returned 2408WFP and it made me sick to see how horrible the newer model looked compared to the older one. I spent days tweaking the settings, but to no avail. The 2408WFP had very flat and diminished colors compared to my 2405FPW. The 2408WFP also had very noticeable streaking of pixels across the monitor when looking at solid colors and it was noticeably brighter on the left side and darker in the bottom right corner of the screen.
So my advice to you, if you haven't picked up one of these babies yet, do so now while you still can.
- Miguel

After using a 21 inch High Resolution monitor for the last 10 years, nothing less than a 21 inch monitor would do. I researched a lot of LCD monitors before settling on the Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW, 24" LCD. I have had it for a month now, and I love it. It is Digital / VGA / and S-Video Ready, has an excellent resolution, can pivot the screen 90 degrees, has USB and Memory card slots on the left side of the monitor and easily raises and lowers to the proper viewing hight. Why pay more for anything less.

Something that regularly gets left off of reviews of this fantastic monitor are the component inputs. This thing supports full 720p/1080i through the component video inputs. It has a total of 5 video inputs - Composite, S-Video, Component, VGA, DVI-D(standard computer DVI).

With a 1920x1200 resolution you've got sharpness than you'll know what to do with. The pictures are incredibly clear, and there is no scanning visible (some of the larger displays, even Apple, I can see the low-refresh-rate scan lines on).

The other thing I like about this monitor is the stand. The arm it comes with gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility, and a comparable 3rd party stand would easily cost $150. This monitor is excellent, and I'm only sad that they stopped selling it on dell.com to make room for the 2407fpw. Same monitor, different stand, higher price.

Read almost any review, and you'll see nothing but positive comments about Dell's 2405FPW display. (The newer 2407 series, by contrast, is getting mixed reviews.) Before this, I owned a Samsung Syncmaster 213T 21" LCD display, and quite frankly, the Dell 2405 is a *far* better buy for the dollar. The Syncmaster is teriffic... but the price tag on one, even today, isn't much less than the 2405 - and was actually higher than a 2405 when I bought it about a year ago.

The Dell 2405 has a number of nice touches and features that make it stand out from the pack. The built-in smartcard/memory stick reader is one advantage, and the ability to connect multiple devices simultaneous and switch between them is another. Even the stand is above-average, featuring the ability to adjust the height of the display with a telescoping action, as well as tilt/swivel capabilities.

The only other 24" LCD I've seen matching the going rate for a Dell 2405FPW is the Acer, and it has no media reader or USB hub.