Eizo flexscan s2431w

[Q-dog]

Hi,
I am looking at buying a "new" computer and there is one in the local classifieds that comes with a Eizo Flexscan 2431w. According to reviews a great display when it was launched in 2007 but how does it stand up today? My thinking was that I should buy a decent computer, new or secondhand, and a new IPS display in the lower end of the segment. But maybe the old Eizo will be just as good or even better?

Ola

 

[Calzone]

Hi,
I am looking at buying a "new" computer and there is one in the local classifieds that comes with a Eizo Flexscan 2431w. According to reviews a great display when it was launched in 2007 but how does it stand up today? My thinking was that I should buy a decent computer, new or secondhand, and a new IPS display in the lower end of the segment. But maybe the old Eizo will be just as good or even better?

Ola

I don't know your model Eizo or the answer, but I think I can easily state a few things that might be helpful.

If the Eizo is a "hardware" calibrated monitor I would consider getting it. A hardware calibrated monitor will spoil you and using any other non hardware calibrated monitor after using one will be a disapointment. Eizo's are a premium product and are of high quality. I just recently bought a new Eizo 271W and know that the warrentee is for 5 years. Consider the Eizo if at a good price and the condition is good. I paid $2.3K for my 271W, and it was some of the best money I ever spent.

Comparing a "hardware" calibrated display to a non-hardware calibrated display is a contest with an obvious winner.

Cal

POST SCRIPT: I did a little research and it does not seem that your model is a hardware calibrated monitor.

 

[Q-dog]

Thanks Cal,
I think the Coloredge series has a more advanced hardware calibration. The seller says there are buttons to change between sRGB, Adobe RGB and Custom. And that there is a sw utility to "fine tune" the display but that the colors match the prints he has made so well that he has never used it.
It is sold together with a computer but comparing I would say that the seller values the display around $200.

Ola

 

[bwcolor]

I would think that an old monitor would not function the same as the same monitor when it was new. A two year old monitor.. ok, but I'm guessing that this is much older than that.

 

[btgc]

If that matters, electricity draw also can be checked. We here have rise on electricity prices so people move on from power hungry devices. Newer monitors are noticeably less hungry, sure this thing is something special and offers what new cheap power-friendly displays can't....

 

[froyd]

I don't know your model Eizo or the answer, but I think I can easily state a few things that might be helpful.

If the Eizo is a "hardware" calibrated monitor I would consider getting it. A hardware calibrated monitor will spoil you and using any other non hardware calibrated monitor after using one will be a disapointment. Eizo's are a premium product and are of high quality. I just recently bought a new Eizo 271W and know that the warrentee is for 5 years. Consider the Eizo if at a good price and the condition is good. I paid $2.3K for my 271W, and it was some of the best money I ever spent.

Comparing a "hardware" calibrated display to a non-hardware calibrated display is a contest with an obvious winner.

Cal

POST SCRIPT: I did a little research and it does not seem that your model is a hardware calibrated monitor.

Cal... since you've done so much research recently, can you shed light on a question that's been on my mind? If a monitor has its own LUT loaded in, does it ever need to be calibrated by something like the XRitei1Display Pro (like the Dells) or does it keep the calibration constant self-compensating for drift?