Best Monitors - 13 to 20 inch Screen Size, 500:1 Contrast Ratio, DVI-D Digital Video Input Standard

'features are sparse'

'colour handling goes out of the window, with nasty steps in colour ramps instead of the smooth graduations we saw previously.'

'it fared poorly in our text and graphic tests, where its unimpressive scores placed it at the bottom of all the models we tested.'

'The monitor also lacks a cable-management system, which is especially unfortunate when it's turned to portrait orientation and cords are sticking prominently out of the side.'

'Unfortunately, the confusing numerical labels don't explain the sort of viewing each mode is best suited for.'

'Plain, boxy design.'

'there was a very noticeable color shift, with white turning a dingy yellow'

'the joystick is not such an indisputable advantage because I??â„¢ve heard many users complaining about it and I??â„¢ve noticed it malfunctioning, too.'

'Mediocre image quality.'

'IBM's policy on defective pixels is stingy, though: the company will replace only displays that have more than 10 nonadjacent bad pixels.'

'at the upper end of the price scale for 17-inch LCDs, but it attractively combines fine image quality, good looks'