This has a black bezel and rear framed with silver, while the base is a silver hollow rectangle. The rear of the unit has a Kensington key lock, VESA mounting points, an IEC power socket, DVI, and D-SUB inputs.
The base, which is removable, is very sturdy. The only problem is it offers little in the way of movement/adjustment -- only slight forward and backward tilting. The back of the base is removable which allows neat routing of the cables.
Once the monitor is powered up, the menu system is easy to navigate. We could achieve very good graduation between blacks, greys, and whites.
Colour graduation was also very good with only the brighter blues tending to bleed into themselves. Both text and graphics showed up with very sharp images and the yellow colour reproduced very nicely. Video playback is very smooth, and the contrast is excellent.
3DMark showed the real performance of this monitor with very little tearing apparent. Viewsonic claim four milliseconds (ms) response time with this monitor -- if this is the case then it is very difficult to detect the differences between 8ms and 4ms, most likely depending on the media, PC, and video card more than the monitor itself.
At AU$899 it seems Viewsonic are cashing in on its 4ms response claim. Granted the video reproduction is very good, however, so too were the BenQ, HP, and Philips and each of those came in either considerably cheaper or with more features.
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Great monitor, clear graphics display.
Im running 2 computers in my room one running DVI and the other D-SUB, and i love the feature to be able to switch between the 2 displays!