Cheap LaCie 321 LCD Monitor (108368) (Electronics) (Windows 98) Price

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Customer Reviews of LaCie 321 LCD Monitor (108368)

Finally! A LCD Monitor for Imaging!
The claim for CRT-level color was just what I was looking for, but frankly I didn't really know LaCie and I didn't know if the product was going to perform. I bought it in January this year, and tested it carefully. While it is true that no monitor is "perfect" this one REALLY COMES THRU!!! It put my CRT monitor to shame. Even better, I was able to calibrate the monitor with Monaco EZ Color 2, which is "not rated" for LCD monitors. It seemed to perform just as well on the LaCie as on my CRT monitor. I would not give up this monitor for anything else on the market I am aware of! I can do exacting fine art work in Photoshop on this monitor, and get the results I want from the resulting prints. I even use the monitor at a lower resolution (native is 1600 x 1200 - I use 1280 x 1024). The resolution conversion is excellent - there is no noticable blur and text is sharp and clear. <
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>My only complaint was a display overlay when the monitor first was displaying the lower resolution (every time I booted). It turned out I could turn off this warning, which nicely resolved that problem. I have absolutely no issues, and love this product. No bad pixels that I can find.

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A really, really good monitor (but not perfect).
So there weren't any reviews of this monitor on Amazon (as of writing this) and this monitor is simply too good to not have a rating. We tested this monitor against the Eizo CG210 which costs $1200 more. The 321 held it's own, despite being a 10-bit monitor (vs the Eizo's 14). It produced equally as good gradations and we were able to get a very good calibration. The gamut and detail the monitor reproduces is staggering; better than any CRT we ever tested (including the Artisan we own). Were price no object we might have chosen the CG210 for the hardware pivot support. But, for the price of the 321 were able to buy a different graphics card that supports rotation and still save $1000. <
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>But, it isn't perfect. The uniformity of the display is certainly lacking. For a professional monitor I expect an even picture from edge to edge. Having yellow and cyan casts in different areas is disappointing. However, the GC210 wasn't any better. In fact, we haven't seen a monitor yet that displays a nice uniform background. The blue/charcoal color of the bezel is a poor choice of color. Personally I like it, but it seems obvious that you'd want a neutral color surrounding your monitor. Our unit has two hot pixels. It'd be nice if they had a no dead-pixel guarantee. The hood design is a little brain dead. There's no opening for the puck so you must remove the entire hood for every calibration. Also, the inside of the hood isn't felt lined. Calibration is slow; like 20 minutes slow. But, despite what Lacie leads you to believe you can use your Gretag Eye-one Display2 instead of their over-priced colorimeter and still get a true hardware calibration. Also, Lacie's support repuation is sketchy. We just bought the monitor, and we haven't had to use them. But, we've read bad things. Hopefully this won't be an issue. <
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>Despite the long list of negatives, we're still very happy. In fact, we plan on buying four more. Quite simply, this monitor is incredibly accurate and a bargain. The 321 is a performer and certainly the best value amongst hardware calibrated monitors.