Awesome once you work it out

This monitor on analog is horrid. But when you hook it up with the DVI cable instead of the DB-15, it turns instantly sick. Everything is razor-sharp and rock-solid, and colors come out deep and clear. You have to get pretty close to notice any screen-door. Text is almost as clear as on my previous monitor (a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u), readable down to 6 pt in Times New Roman and Courier, 5 pt in Arial, at 100% magnification in 1280x1024x60Hz (native) mode.

It's hard to tell what the specified "2 ms" switching time is doing for it, relative to my fairly high-end-for-its-time CRT, but I have noticed no degradation in performance in graphic-intensive applications (games). In fact, it seems I can run my video card (a GeForce Ti 4600) at full native resolution with the DVI output, where the analog setup would have to be degraded to 640x480 to get decent panning at full frame rates.

The back of the monitor has a removable cover to hide the connectors. Only the two wires (power and video) remain visible, making this a good solution if you are trying to maintain aesthetics from that side.

The only thing that some might not like is that there is no way to raise or lower the screen, only to tilt the top forward and back. This wasn't a problem for me, as the bottom of its visible area happens to be within a couple of mm of where my former monitor's had been (about 150 mm off the desk surface). And it can be solved by removing the base and attaching any standard articulating monitor arm to the back of the screen.