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I am please I purchased this unit. This monitor had a better picture than the Dell 24" monitor I returned.
So for my purposes the monitor is a solid 5-stars. The only down side are the weak built-in speakers, but I wasn't planning to use them anyway. I use this monitor with a KVM switch with a Power Mac G-5 and a PC laptop, and it has excellent video resolution for both platforms. I do some video editing with Final Cut Pro, and the size and picture quality are great for editing.
Plus you get a free HDMI cable with every one (LOL) I needed a 1680x1050 22" monitor with embedded speakers - so here it is.It does the job, but it is annoying because the damn things won't go to sleep at night (and they are attached to HP hardware). It would also be nice if you could attach the HP terminal box to the back as you can with some other monitors.The prices vary on this monitor - I've gotten them for as little as $229+shipping.All in all, it does the job, looks sharp, and people seem to like them.
HP will never see anymore of my money They will sell me a REMANUFACTURED monitor for 214.99 + tax. After one year and two days of use, this monitor blinks on and off. HP will not honor the warranty.
I have to unplug the monitor for a bit, then it cleats up for a short time but then goes ghosty again. I am past the one year warranty and are therefore SOL. I have searched online (a bit) and others do not seem to have this issue - I leave the monitor on all the time, just let the power save turn it off, so this could be part of the problem.
But after a couple of months, I started getting 'ghosting' - everything has a light ghost image of itself to the right - for example, characters look 'smeared' to the right-hand side. Now the second one is doing the EXACT same thing. At first, I was thrilled with this monitor (note that I have the w2207, not w2207H, so perhaps this problem is fixed).
Two in a row means they have a design or manufacturing issue. Argh. This is, by the way, on fixed text, not gaming or graphics intensive motion.
I returned that monitor (I'll give HP credit, the return was easy once I convinced them I knew what I was talking about and had already tried all the usual things - reset, unplug, etc).
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