I received my Dell 2001FP yesterday evening in a very impressive 2 days shipping time. Impressive because this is from Dell to Florida with normal shipping costs (free). If this is "normal" shipping what in the world would express be? I carefully removed the LCD panel and hooked it up to the stand. The panel easily dropped into the stand with a resounding CLICK that took absolutely zero effort. The 2001FP initially sat next to my 19 inch Viewsonic G790 CRT. The CRT looked like a bus sitting next to a late model Ferrari. For comparisons sake I had both the CRT and the LCD connected to my ATI Radeon 9700 PRO. Of course the LCD was connected via the DVI port. When Windows XP booted to both monitors I was impressed again. Out of the box with no tweaking/adjustments the 2001FP was noticeably sharper than the Viewsonic. This and the drivers were not even installed yet. At this point the color between the 2 monitors was about equal, but remember the 2001FP is still just out of the box with no tweaking. It is also important to note that the Viewsonic CRT was always strong at displaying color. So, to say that the 2001FP out of the box is the equal of the Viewsonic is, again, impressive! Time to load the drivers and set screen resolution/color depth. The default screen resolution was already set to 1600 x 1200, but for some reason the color depth was set to 16 bit. I changed the color depth to 32 bit and now the 2001FP looks better than the Viewsonic. However, not by a huge margin. My naked eye best guess is about 10% better. Next I load several different solid colors to scan the 2001FP for dead/stuck pixels. I find none. Now comes the games test. I’m not a first person shooter fan, but I do cyber race. I have a ton of saved replays from NASCAR 2003 season by Sierra/Papyrus. I load up a replay from Pocono as this track is about the most demanding on the video card. When the replay starts the 2001FP really shines. As the cars go across the screen the 2001FP is making the CRT look dated. NASCAR 2003 season at 1600 x 1200 x 32 is just beautiful to look at. It’s like watching a HDTV broadcast. The long camera shot coming out of turn 4 and looking down the straight away I can clearly see "Monte Carlo" on the front of the lead car (me) with the 2001FP. The Viewsonic car at the same point looks good, but you can not make out "Monte Carlo" on the front of the car. The sharpness of the picture on the 2001FP is clearly better than the Viewsonic with NASCAR 2003 season. Before I purchased the 2001FP I did a lot of research on the internet. I read a lot about ghosting and pixel blur. The 2001FP I have has no, none, zero, zip, nadda pixel blur and ghosting. I suspect that the people who wrote about pixel blur and ghosting had the 2001FP connected analog via the VGA connector. I haven’t connected the 2001FP to an analog source and I have no plans to. Anandtech tested the 2001FP with first person shooter games. There could also be a difference with pixel blur and ghosting there. However, I don’t see how first person shooters can be more motion intensive than a racing simulation!

  In closing consider that I’m not a good candidate to review the 2001FP. Because of NASCAR 2003 racing season I already had the hardware to display 1600 x 1200 x 32. If I was someone that had been looking at a CRT displaying 1024 x 768 x 16 and then hooked up the 2001FP at 1600 x 1200 x 32 I would have been AWED and BLOWN AWAY, but as it is I’m only IMPRESSED! My congrats to Dell and LG Phillips (manufacturer of the LCD panel). I highly recommend the Dell 2001FP. Especially at the $749.00 I paid!