400$ to spend on a monitor.

I am looking at a monitor for around 400$ These 2 stand out
=Dell 24" Ultrasharp WFP
+new
-never used it

=Used Apple Cinema Display 23"
+used it plenty at school and love em
-used arg..

I am a little deficient in monitor knowledge so if anyone wants to chime in on their experiences with these particular models or any competent contenders it would be greatly appreciated.

I was all set to purchase the Dell before my cousin, who owns the 30" ACD and has the dell 30" at work, told me he prefers the ACD.

2408WFP will KILL the old 23" ACD. Sharpness, color, contrast, even backlight evenness. The new 24" ACD is a different beast, but between 23" ACD and the Dell, go with the dell and never look back.

I have one that's a year old already, and not a single imperfection or glitch to talk about (other than that the gamut may be too large for it's own good, firefox ICC method still causes some issues since the monitor's color range is too large for FF3.5). Great for hooking up to your gaming systems too.

^ Great! Thanks Basroil,
you were the one that turned me onto the Dell!

Well i just ordered my Macpro so I will be on this in the morning.
Excellent, no looking back.

What calibration system do you use?

mikeassk wrote in post #8609208
^ Great! Thanks Basroil,
you were the one that turned me onto the Dell!

Well i just ordered my Macpro so I will be on this in the morning.
Excellent, no looking back.

What calibration system do you use?

Used to use spyder 2 pro when I used my laptop, but right now I'm being lazy and using old calibration file from the laptop on my new computer since Spyder never released a proper 64bit driver for it (they released an unsigned driver like idiots, vista 64bit doesn't allow unsigned drivers without some steps I don't have time for)