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Would recommend this product to anyone. Hellova difference from the 14" monitor i'm used to on my laptop.

Great monitor! Very happy with the product and the timely shipping, affordable pricing, and the entire purchase process.

I bought the first one and it was DOA -- didn't even power up so it was return immediately. The exchange worked wonderfully for exactly 10 days when it developed a very pretty rainbow band on the screen 2/3rd in from the left side -- i.e. the led screen was separating, which is a manufacturing problem, and not a store or delivery issue. So I returned that one as well. I did do some due diligence as to whether I should get another or whether this was a more systemic problem -- from the HP archives I saw lots more of people who were complaining of the same problem -- which shows up a lot more on the 23 inch monitor. So with that information in hand, I did not buy another HP and at this point I would not again. They have some severe manufacturing problems, which I managed to get straight up twice -- why this weblog does not show it utterly amazes me.

prior computer was an iMac G5. current one is an HP Pavilion Elite e9220y

monitor is adequate for the price. wish monitors were cheaper/included anyway but compared to others it's probably a decent value. nothing to write home about but not terrible

what i didn't like:
1. power cord kept disconnecting. had to return it & replacement monitor was fine (but found other user complaints about this). problem is, because of power cord's placement, if you use wired keyboard and mouse, sometimes just moving the wire inadvertently disconnected the power cord and turned the monitor off, as did placement of the on/off switch on the bottom right of the monitor or even moving the monitor over a bit to adjust your view. considering how long power cords/cables have existed. can't understand how they screwed that up.
2. speakers are not great. bad bass, and just not enuf sound even jacked up for some videos online. you'll probably want to pay more for external speakers to amp up the sound
3. resolution/picture quality not very good compared to my old imac. really surprised at how much worse the picture quality was. using the same background photo for my desktop, it was sharp on the imac and is fuzzy and slightly distorted (noisy) on the HP (as are other picture files stored on photobucket/shutterfly). i'll have to do more tweaking to see if i can improve this at all

what i liked:
1. monitor looks nice and is decently thin.
2. appreciate being able to tilt the screen up or down a little (tho that mechanism is a bit stiff)
3. considering how absolutely expensive monitors are, this is reasonable.

if you love digital photography/videography and really care about picture quality, tho, you'll probably want a better monitor. you're sacrificing much desired picture quality in favor of lower cost. i'm an amateur photog yet i noticed the quality issues, so a more advanced photog would probably be disappointed.

Vibrant colors, good size, easy setup and versatile connectivity (you get DVI and VGA cables in the box, so people with outdated hardware are covered) make this monitor a steal. I'm in heaven, playing all my games and DVDs again just to take advantage of this gorgeous screen!