Eary Birthday present to myself!

Well my new laptop came with a DVI-I connector in order to use high res displays, so I though when is a better time than now to take advantage of it?

I ordered an Acer x203w 20" lcd off newegg for 169.99 w/ free shipping on a weekend sale. I was blown away with the picture quality. The only thing that I don't like it the short little stub they call a stand - it sits like 2 inches off the desk.

The screen itself it superb though. There is almost no light bleed, and the monitor was so bright out of the box, I had to turn it down to almost half of what it was by default.

I haven't done much gaming yet, but World of Warcraft looks as good as a game that old can. Its a whole new experience surfing the web on a 1680 x 1050 widescreen vs a 1280 x 1024 standard ratio screen.

On another note, I gotta give an A++ to the UPS guy - my house has a 8ft fence around it, and the carport is inside the gate so there's almost nowhere to leave a package especially one that is the retail LCD box(wtf was newegg thinking?) where it's out of the way. The UPS guy CLIMBED the fence to leave the package under my carport so it was covered. WOW.

I wish I could figure out who it was so I could give him/her a tip.



Newegg shipped it in this box... whats up with that?