Best Monitors - Input Select User Controls, Black Exterior Color, 15 to 30 ms Response Time

'Grayscale performance was merely average, and our white-level saturation test showed that the colors nearest to peak white were slightly washed out.'

'default color settings looked a little too blue and bright'

'No speakers, headphone jack, or extra USB ports.'

'Along the bezel's left edge sits one downstream USB port; in our opinion, that's at least one too few; most LCDs have at least two downstream ports, if not three or four.'

'no pivot.'

'Unfortunately, the panel does not rotate for viewing in portrait mode.'

'The cable-feed system is a clumsy plastic panel that you clip onto the back of the monitor's slablike neck'

'Extremely expensive LCD doesn't deliver much for the price.'

'Total lack of adjustability.'

'The maximum PIP size is a bit small'

'speakers that offer disappointingly faint, tinny sound.'

'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'