How to Choose a Monitor for Your Computer
- 1). Style: Find the monitor that fits your personality best. Look through as many monitors as you can.
- 2). Brightness: The higher this is, the brighter you're monitor can be. Don't worry about getting one that's too bright. You can always turn the brightness down.
- 3). Connector: Check the back of your computer for a blue connector in the shape of a trapezoid. This is a D-Sub. Is it a white, rectangular connector? This is a DVI. If it looks kind of like a USB port, it's an HDMI. The monitor you buy needs to support the connector on your computer.
- 4). Speakers: They sound bad, look bad, and take up space--don't get one with speakers!
- 5). Contrast Ratio: The difference between the whitest white and the blackest black. The higher this is, the better.
- 6). Response Time: This is how fast a pixel changes colors. Unless you're a gamer, you don't have to worry about this. If you're a gamer, get a monitor with an 8ms or lower response time just to be on the safe side.
- 7). Color: Black and silver are the most common. Black is good for watching movies and playing video games in the dark.
- 8). Adjustable: Tilt, swivel, and up and down, are all ways to adjust a monitor. The more adjustments the monitor supports, the more expensive it is. Most support tilt.
- 9). Screen Size: Larger screens give a lot more room on the desktop for moving windows around, but is more likely to cause eyestrain. If you're a gamer, you already know the importance of screen size. If you watch a lot of movies on your computer, a big screen is good to have too.
