I picked up one of these this weekend at Best Buy, figuring to use it as a multi-purpose item: TV, Home Theater, Games, and (this was important) large external monitor for my MacBook Pro.
I'm not yet entirely happy with how it looks as a computer monitor, though I've followed suggestions for settings here on this forum, and they definitely help. I'll play with fonts to see if it improves, but it is not yet the 'larger version of my dell 19" that I was hoping for.
I was basically hoping to get a near equivalent to the 30" Apple Cinema Display or the Dell 30" monitor with a good HDTV thrown in. Since those displays run at 2560 x 1600, I guess the Sharp will never be quite as good.
I have a question that will betray my ignorance of monitors and resolution and how to set them up:
when I use the Sharp with my macbook pro, the entire screen is not used-- essentially, I'm getting a 27" monitor, with 1920 x 1080p resolution. Is there a way to fill the whole screen at that resolution?
I may end up returning this, as it may not fit all my needs, but I want to see its optimum performance as a PC monitor before I let it go.
TIA
I'm not yet entirely happy with how it looks as a computer monitor, though I've followed suggestions for settings here on this forum, and they definitely help. I'll play with fonts to see if it improves, but it is not yet the 'larger version of my dell 19" that I was hoping for.
I was basically hoping to get a near equivalent to the 30" Apple Cinema Display or the Dell 30" monitor with a good HDTV thrown in. Since those displays run at 2560 x 1600, I guess the Sharp will never be quite as good.
I have a question that will betray my ignorance of monitors and resolution and how to set them up:
when I use the Sharp with my macbook pro, the entire screen is not used-- essentially, I'm getting a 27" monitor, with 1920 x 1080p resolution. Is there a way to fill the whole screen at that resolution?
I may end up returning this, as it may not fit all my needs, but I want to see its optimum performance as a PC monitor before I let it go.
TIA