Cornerstone Wants you to Keep Your LCD Long-Term

Anyone who has a history of with laptop computers knows that the first thing to go South is usually the display. When putting out the bucks for one of those new-fangled, expensive LCD desktop monitors, you may ask yourself just how long it will last. Cornerstone Peripherals thinks it can answer that question for you with its new f1200 17.4" LCD monitor. The thing now ships with a five-year standard warranty and a "zero dead pixel policy" at a price of $859. The company says a dead pixel is defined as three adjacent defective sub-pixels. A sub-pixel is a single colored dot (red, blue or green). If a single sub-pixel is "stuck" either in the bright or dark position it is considered defective. The f1200 gives you 1,280 x 1,024 resolution, a 400:1 contrast ratio, 160 degree viewing angle, and USB ports built into the monitor. Along with the five-year standard warranty, you get a three-year warranty on the backlight and a "No Questions Asked" return policy with no restocking fee during the first 30 days if you buy it from Cornerstone's MonitorsDirect.com site. The price isn't bad, and for those of us concerned that we'll burn out a flat panel the minute the three-year warrantee is up, those extra two years are definitely a plus.