Rated 
Different look but the full is more useful.
Started Jul 28, 2005
Strengths: Good price for size and quality of monitor. Clean picture and bright colors.
Weaknesses: 1050 vertical resolution is too limiting.
I bought this monitor earlier this year. So far, it's been as advertised. I was pleased to get a clean monitor after reading that many people who had gotten it earlier had reported issues with dead pixels and stuff.
Setup was easy. There is a convenient cord management rubber holder thing on the back. The monitor also integrates well with my Dell 5650 speakers so I can clip the center channel speaker to the monitor itself.
In addition to the two inputs, there are USB ports on the side which are pretty useful. I have a card reader and my Ipod cord currently attached to it.
My biggest issue is the 1050 vertical resolution maximum. I knew about this beforehand so it wasn't a surprised, but I was surprised at how short the monitor seemed over all. It's still big enough to handle most applications, but I like to multi-task a lot and the vertical limit limits the resolution I can use. I prefer 1200 btw.
This is a definitely a nice monitor, but given the falling prices and the new 2405 that came out, I am seriously considering passing this on to my parents and getting the 2405. This is definitely enough for a casual computer user, but I would rather have one with better vertical stats.
I have not been playing any pc games recently so I couldn't tell you how the widescreen format is with games. Viewing videos in widescreen has been nice.
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