Samsung 27" CF39 1800R Curved Monitor (TAA-Compliant*)

Now, in all fairness, I probably just spoiled myself rotten when I bought a $5000.00 Eizo professional monitor 8 or 10 years ago. Prior to that I'd been using two much less-expensive Samsung monitors and had been perfectly happy with them (excepting their longevity - neither of them lasted more than two or three years before going completely dead). Then, as I was embarking on a career as a pro photographer, I decided I needed a professional-quality monitor with precise and consistent color reproduction, so after hemming and hawing over the price for a while, I bit the proverbial bullet and laid down the cash for a new Eizo ColorEdge CG276. And honestly, at that time, I noticed that what I saw on my screen looked very nice, but I don't recall it blowing my mind - proof that the way to *really* appreciate what you've got is to do without it. Because I've now tried replacing this Eizo monitor (which is still working perfectly in every respect and which I'm still using and writing this review on now) with less expensive monitors twice, and each time I've shaken my head in disbelief that anybody could use a monitor with such crappy resolution and image quality, let alone think it was good. That, sadly, but I guess as is to be expected, was my experience with this Samsung. It didn't matter that the screen was curved; what I saw on the screen looked so terrible that it wouldn't matter if the monitor was a freaking planetarium, or a perfect globe surrounding me on all sides while I floated in the center via...I don't know...jetpack or something. I'd just have that much more poorly rendered graphics to look at. I've attached five photos: one of the progress bar as it appears on my Eizo monitor, and two as it appears on this Samsung, followed by one of the Apple logo as it appears on the Eizo and finally, the Apple logo as it appears on the Samsung. You be the judge. (UPDATE: I just noticed that Amazon's website doesn't display the images in the same order in which you upload them (or at least it isn't with my images)...so suffice it to say that the really smooth and nice-looking progress bar and text and Apple logo are the Eizo's screen, and the really jaggy, glary, awful-looking ones are the Samsung's.) I don't have the technical understanding of monitors required to explain which monitor-related variable it is, exactly, that makes the image quality on this Samsung so unsatisfactory (resolution? pixel size/shape? dunno.), but something definitely does it. Maybe once you've used an Eizo on a Mac, you can never go back. So be it. If I really need a new monitor I'll just save my pennies until I can afford another Eizo...or at least something with much better specs than this Samsung. Because boy, was it a disappointment. Ah well...lesson learned (kinda...even though I don't really know *why* I thought the Samsung sucked). I've boxed it back up and arranged my hassle-free return through Amazon and will at least get my money back...the return policy and process being two reasons I buy through Amazon in the first place. And I'll simply content myself to go on using a top-quality flat screen (that I can smoothly and easily raise and lower and pivot and even turn from landscape to portrait and back!) instead of trying to swap it out for a vastly inferior curved one (that I can only tilt up and down).