Gateway, BenQ vie for monitor coolness

Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert

LATEST COOL TOOLS COLUMN: Gateway, BenQ vie for monitor coolness

Attend to the tale of two monitors, one filled with features galore and a whiz-bang widescreen size, the other a simple, square, basic fellow.

The Gateway FPD2185W TFT LCD monitor is a $600 high-definition, 21-inch, flat-panel LCD monitor, the 2185W lets you display two letter-sized documents next to each other without having to toggle between applications or documents.

The BenQA FP71G+ LCD monitor is a $330 flat-panel monitor stripped of fancy features; the FPG71G+ still provides a 17-inch display in a sleek, yet basic, package. The monitor includes an 8 millisec response time, a 500-to-1 contrast ratio and 300 nits of brightness.

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COOL YULE TOOLS: THE VIDEO

It’s holiday gift giving time! Keith (with a little ‘The Price is Right’ inspiration) brings you six products from our annual Cool Yule Tools 2005 Gift Guide sure to please the gadget lover.

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We’ve been dreaming of the future, and it has arrived in the form of this year’s online holiday gift guide. We’ve got reviews and suggestions of more than 100 high-tech products that you’ll want to give to friends, family or yourself.http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2005/hgg/?nlhttp://www.networkworld.com/bg/gifts/2005/topic-r.jsp?nlhttp://www.networkworld.com/bg/gifts/2005/aftertopic.jsp?nl

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