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cadlabsreview of 0.247 mm. Lenovo notes that it was the first to market a 22” wide-panel LCD display with this resolution. The panel is relatively thin at 1.75” and features both horizontal and vertical vendor-rated viewing angles of 178º. Response time is a relatively speedy 6 ms. The ThinkVision L220x has a brightness rating of 325 cd/m2 and a contrast rating of 1,200:1. The display has a horizontal sync range of 30–94 kHz with a vertical sync range of 50–75 Hz, and it uses 90 W of energy when in operation. The physical size of the L220x is 14.9” high at the minimum lift (19.2” at the maximum lift) x 20.1” wide x 10.8” deep, and it weighs 16.9 lbs. The mounting proved to be stable at all the tested exten- sions and allowed the panel to pivot between portrait (vertical) and landscape (horizontal) mode. The stand detaches to allow the panel to be mounted on a standard VESA wall mount. Connectivity options include both analog and digital interfaces, with 15-pin D-sub and DVI-D connectors. A USB 2.0x hub is incorporated into the Lenovo ThinkVision L220x and is located on the back of the panel with the cable connections. It has one downstream and two upstream connectors. Speakers aren’t integrated into the panel, but a soundbar is available as an option. The monitor has a standard range of image controls with accesses via five wave-shaped buttons at the bottom A Rule of Thumb to Test Monitors DisplayMate testing, adjustment, and calibration utility evaluates display quality. DisplayMate Multimedia Edition on USB Drive DisplayMate Technologies 800.932.6323 www.displaymate.com Price: $495 I would be at a loss without the excellent display testing, adjustment, and calibration utility called DisplayMate, which I used to test all the monitors that come through Cadalyst Labs for this roundup. Just before I began testing displays for this article, I received a note from DisplayMate President Ray Soneira telling me about the company’s latest innovation — DisplayMate on USB drives. Of course, I wanted to have a look. There are three DisplayMate editions available on USB drives: the basic DisplayMate for Windows, the more advanced DisplayMate for Windows Video Edition, and the comprehensive DisplayMate Multimedia Edition. All three versions support automatic launch under Windows XP and Vista and require only a click to launch under Windows ME and Windows 2000. There is no installation procedure, and nothing is copied or written to any drive on the host PC. I looked at the DisplayMate is now available in three different editions on a USB thumb drive, each of which runs without copying or writing any files to the host PC. Multimedia Edition, which I used to evaluate the monitors. DisplayMate Multimedia Edition offers a number of new features as well as numerous innovative suites of proprietary DisplayMate test patterns. You can calibrate, evaluate, and test CRT, analog and digital LCD, plasma, Digital Light Processing (DLP), and liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) monitors and projectors, as well as microdisplays, video boards, color printers, TVs and HDTVs, and NTSC/PAL television encoders and decoders (in short, just about anything with a display screen). In addition to its clean Windows user interface, DisplayMate Multimedia Edition also has a Command Script processor that lets users run and produce fully automated demos and custom test suites. A premier test suite for both home and professional use, DisplayMate has always been a superb and effective tool. The new DisplayMate USB version is even easier to use and is particularly useful for technicians evaluating a customer’s PC or for IT departments that need to support a large number of PCs. DisplayMate Multimedia Edition on USB drive is available for $495, and the USB drive versions of DisplayMate for Windows and DisplayMate for Windows Video Edition are available for $79 and $99, respectively. For more information about the DisplayMate family of products, visit www.displaymate. com, where you’ll also find a wealth of information pertaining to testing and evaluating displays. Highly Recommended. 20 www.cadalyst.com cadalyst April 2008 http://www.displaymate.com http://www.displaymate.com http://www.displaymate.com http://www.displaymate.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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