Hi Tim,
Did you receive the arm and have a chance to use it.
I did. Sorry been stressful deadline busy.
It arrived in this very ugly box, like a Hong Kong pirate graphic designer would churn out. And get this ..zero instructions, I mean zero. Luckily the mounts website had a PDF (but that was still lacking). It was no huge deal I couldn't figure out, like which way to turn the screw on the gas shock to increase or decrease tension and a little thing like you had to snap off the arm's entire case to tighten critical joints w/ a wrench --all hidden underneath! Again and not one pice of instructions. Bizarre.
Oh well, it's stout and very very solidly built at a good price. The mount part to the table is a rock. The whole arm is, actually, once you get it all tightened down (took awhile till I was happy). But it's not a "hey move it over here move it over there" type mount, because of the wrenching tight on several joints (so it won't sag). You set it, then I advise leave it --which is fine w/ me and my use. Then it just easily pivots to portrait mode and that's all I really want it to do (it's also nice have "new" space under the monitor (ooh I look so space age).
I also wanted to find out if the Eizo is still
working well for you.
Yep. The calibrating software that comes w/ it is pretty cool as it uses the USB cable to access the display controls w/o you touching a thing --so it does hardware adjusting too, while calibrating. However, after doing so, it locks access to those controls so nobody screws up your profile. You have to go through the interface and reset to have access to the front controls again, as I need to use w/ ColorEyes calibration software. The Eizo software made nice profiles but I prefer the ColorEyes, as it checks more gray levels and the Eizo stuff won't work on another monitor.
The more I've looked around, and the incredible leap in price to the next model up from this w/ Eizo sure makes this model hit the "sweet spot", and you can't find anybody grousing about the color. Apple's stuff is nice (I own a sh*t load including two LCD's), but it's not meant or designed to compete in this class(at the present). They could w/ a pro line, but Apple, as you know, is trying to be less niche players and get the masses w/ Microsoft and Dell in their crosss hairs (like Target vs. WalMart. Target has taste). I doubt the upgrade to this type of monitor is in their plans, and if it was companies like Eizo would just raise the bar higher. That's what's at play here, I believe.
T i m
P.S. It is a little unusual w/ the Apple HD 23" next to it, as the same pixel dimension as the 24" Eizo. Everything is a just a tad bigger on the Eizo. I would rather have gained extra pixels w/ the bigger dimension, but I'm not throwing out the baby w/ the bath water.
