I guess you get what you pay for, I was not familiar with the brand name, but figued it was cheap, and Amazon.com has a great return policy if not satisfied (Thank God) This thing is a total pile of * it looks, feels, and even smells cheap. So again back to you get what you pay for, I plugged it in and low and behold it had a black square about the size of a dime that would not go away, when I called Corn ea they told me they all LCD Monitors have some dead pixels, but mine was the size of a dime, and that most monitor and laptop companies will not let you return an item unless it has more than 12 dead pixels, again mine was the size of a dime and very noticable, and annoying. Needless to say, I returned the monitor to Amazon.com, but I always hate re-packing the item up, and then having to go to the post office. But it went back, and I got a credit, I will ask the computer guy at work what he recomends and then come back and order a monitor from Amazon.com based on his recomendations.