nVidia 8600 GTS supports them just fine, monitors are very clear, very sharp, very fast for my needs. Although I don’t do much gaming.

Here are the negatives:

1) They are warm (but there is no fan that I can hear). When I sit arms length from them I can feel a bit of heat on my face!

2) The color seems slightly wrong. I used to print what I saw, now it doesn’t quite match. Loading the 3007WFP screen definition/color file (icm) doesnt seem to help (or change anything for that matter.)

3) The biggest problem is that these monitors do not have built “OSD” on screen display. Instead they connect to a driver that gets installed in the desktop settings control panel control.

This would be all well and good EXCEPT, that they always display the brightness control on the “master” monitor. So in a dual display environment, if you plug the USB cables into both monitors, it controls the master monitor fine, but the extended monitor cannot be controlled. (If you touch the + or – controls it crashes instantly with a BSD (blue screen of death) and tells you you have a bad driver.

I eventually did get the intensity set (disconnect the second USB cable, set the main monitor to how you want it (0-20, mine is at 15) on the second monitor press the + sign to make it as bright as possible, then press the – sign 5 times (you have to be careful it is a “touch” button and easy to double press). So my monitors match and it all works… but I don’t really have functional brightness controls.

I called support at Dell but to no avail. I could not convince them that this was a driver problem. They were unaware of the driver that controlled brightness. I spent an hour on the phone talking to 3 different departments.

One reason I am posting here is that I am sure they never tested the 3007WFP with dual monitors, and I am hoping someone at Dell will see this and get the message to the right folks.

Anyway… If you want the dual monitors, buy Apple… but I got a good deal on the Dells, and Apple never discounts..

When one thing is 27.5 lbs (Apple) and the other thing is 35.24 lbs (Dell), for a 7.74 lb difference, the percentage difference is equal to the difference divided by the lower weight:

7.74 / 27.5 = 28%.

You don’t add the “100%” weight of the lighter item, so the Dell screen is only 28% heavier, not, as you say, 128% heavier.

the apple has no fan and is silent. thats a HUGE reason to pick apple. great article, well done.