"First impression: it has a sleek, clean minimalist appearance. It seems to weight almost nothing and the stand is entirely plastic. The picture quality is very bright (I had to turn mine down to 70), colors seem accurate, and the picture and text are extremely sharp via DVI (cable not included). Some people have complained about a less-than-sharp picture. Those people must be LCD first-timers. I've had nearly a dozen LCDs in the past 5-years, and an important rule for LCD sharpness is they MUST be run at NATIVE resolution! Anything less than native resolution and you're asking for a blurry picture. The native resolution of this monitor is 1680x1050, so be sure your video card is up to snuff.

I found the speakers to be handy for Windows sounds. They're weak, but not the worst I've heard. They're comparable in sound quality to a clock radio or cell phone/PDA speaker. I have the volume cranked to max on the monitor and about 2/3 of the way up on the PC's volume control and that's about comfortable for me. The speakers are more suitable for an office-type environment, NOT for gaming or being immersed into music.

This monitor uses the same 6-bit TFT-TN Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) as most other 22" monitors, and ALL 22" monitors are 6-bit TFT-TN. A drawback to the CMO panel is backlight bleeding (slightly brighter glow on the edges when displaying a black screen), color temperature shift from top to bottom due to poor vertical viewing angles, and the fact that it's a 6-bit panel so it only displays a true 262k colors (16.2m is due to dithering). My particular monitor had almost no backlight bleed and the colors were good enough that it's difficult to notice it's a 6-bit panel. You won't find better picture than this in a Dell 22" or early Samsung 22" (225BW) because they use the SAME CMO panel (and so does Acer, Benq, HP, Gateway, Envision, Sceptre, etc - most 22" on the market).
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