Frankly, the picture is about the only thing good about Dell monitors. They're not pretty (though mine certainly isn't unattractive), and they're not well-designed. The UI of the menus on my 2407WFP is absolutely terrible. It's so fiddly and slow to switch inputs. This is because, get this, it won't respond to any button presses until the on-screen menu from the PREVIOUS button presses goes away (3 sec or so). They must have picked this up from the Windows "wait-wait-wait--- now there's a menu!" school of thought.
This is a big deal because some moron at Dell decided that it should revert the default PIP source back to a source I never use and don't have plugged in. It seems to switch back every time it is turned off, or sleeps, or just gets bored.
I hope the guy who designed this crap got fired.
That said, it's been a great display, the price was right, and it had the component video + s-video + composite video inputs that the Apple display lacked, so I certainly don't regret my choice. I just regret Dell's lack of any usability department whatsoever.
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Reid @ Apr 18th 2008 12:46PM
Frankly, the picture is about the only thing good about Dell monitors. They're not pretty (though mine certainly isn't unattractive), and they're not well-designed. The UI of the menus on my 2407WFP is absolutely terrible. It's so fiddly and slow to switch inputs. This is because, get this, it won't respond to any button presses until the on-screen menu from the PREVIOUS button presses goes away (3 sec or so). They must have picked this up from the Windows "wait-wait-wait--- now there's a menu!" school of thought.
This is a big deal because some moron at Dell decided that it should revert the default PIP source back to a source I never use and don't have plugged in. It seems to switch back every time it is turned off, or sleeps, or just gets bored.
I hope the guy who designed this crap got fired.
That said, it's been a great display, the price was right, and it had the component video + s-video + composite video inputs that the Apple display lacked, so I certainly don't regret my choice. I just regret Dell's lack of any usability department whatsoever.