Best Monitors - 13 to 20 inch Screen Size, 0.249 to 0.2835 mm Dot Pitch, 500:1 Contrast Ratio

'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.'

'Mediocre image quality.'

'don't assume that this calibration makes the LG Flatron 1730S good for high-end graphics work.'

'it doesn't swivel, nor is its height adjustable'

'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'