Acer T232HL - Touch Comes to the Desktop
by Chris Heinonen on February 6, 2013 9:00 AM ESTInput Lag and Power Use
Finally, we have another 1080p display so I can avoid the usual caveats about testing for lag on a 27” monitor! On the Acer lag is not an issue for you. It measured out at 1.7ms of input lag and at 11.2ms of pixel lag, for a nice low total of 12.91ms of lag. If you want to game, the Acer isn’t going to be holding you back.
It's also a miser when it comes to power use. It uses only 27 watts with a white screen at full backlight and 13 watts with a white screen at minimum backlight. Other 23” panels are at the same level of power use, but they aren’t driving the touch-layer on the panel either, so the Acer comes out looking good here.
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zero2dash - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - link
Horrible decision.That thing will be filthy in hours.
Flunk - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - link
You can't have a touchscreen with a matte finish, the two features have to go together. If you don't like it you can always get a matte non-touchscreen there are lots of those on the market.JanieMartin - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - link
Love my job, since I've been bringing in $5600… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online.(Click Home information)http://goo.gl/q9r5k
Beaver M. - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - link
Funny, I have one of those right here. Works fine. Given it is also transflexive, but it is matte.Beaver M. - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - link
Transflective of course.shtldr - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - link
I've seen a matte touch desktop display about 7 years ago. It was probably the resistive type as one had to use some force.Not sure if they're still being produced with all this tablet/smartphone glass capacitive fad of late, but they can be had.
Tams80 - Friday, February 8, 2013 - link
Absolute rubbish! I'm using a Tablet PC with a matte touchscreen right now.roberto.tomas - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - link
Is that true for proj. capacitive as well as optical? 2-point multitouch systems should probably need glossy, because they are optical. But 10-point is usually more expensive projective capacitive (and I didn't know if they needed matted too).My take on the monitor: horrible, disturbingly bad color gamut for a monitor that is glossy. The sRGB % for this thing is as low as a $60 commodity 11.6" laptop matte from AUO. But; full 10-point multitouch in the sub-$1 grand range, good range of pivot, and not entirely small 23". I'm lukewarm to the thing, if it went onf half off sale I might pick one up ... maybe.
Homeles - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - link
Read the article, genius:"I worried a lot about fingerprints and smudges with the glossy finish, but I didn’t find myself having to clean it that often, and typically they were hidden away well."
zero2dash - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - link
When you grow up, have sex, and have kids, you'll realize that glossy screens get fingerprints all over them.Maybe this monitor works for 1 person who cleans their hands every five minutes.
In a normal household with more than 1 person and normal use, the thing would be filthy in no more than 24 hours. I have fingerprints on all my monitors, flat screens, and every other glossy screen device in our house...and half of those devices aren't even touch screens.