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Question

Need help choosing between 2 computer monitors.

Oct 4, 2013 9:49PM PDT

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Since you can't inspect them
Oct 5, 2013 3:44AM PDT

Go with the best seller ranking to make the final decision.
Bob

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Asus over nixeus?
Oct 6, 2013 4:09AM PDT

So I should go with the asus monitor for the higher seller ranking?

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Go to a store that has them and look
Oct 6, 2013 4:16AM PDT

I'd never buy a monitor or TV I hadn't seen first. I've ordered mail order before but not until I'd gone to a local store and checked them out visually myself. Depending on where you live, you could go to a Best Buy, Walmart, Frys, Staples, Office Max, Office Depot, Micro Center store.
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Happy shopping.

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If you can't get to a store to inspect them
Oct 6, 2013 4:48AM PDT

Then you go with best seller ranking which is different from a higher seller ranking (that is, product verses product seller ranking.)

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Why a monitor alone and not a combo TV/Monitor?
Oct 7, 2013 12:52AM PDT

After buying similar to this from this store no longer in business and at a price cheap as a monitor alone, I can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to buy a TV/Monitor combination instead. My wife is very happy with her Westinghouse TV/Monitor combo attached to cable and a computer with TV capture in it. Unless a combo TV/Monitor costs more than a Monitor and TV card for the PC, it makes no sense to me getting a monitor function alone anymore. The TV/Monitor has remote control and switchable between PC mode, various input modes, and of course TV.