I love the cons of this article. In other words it doesn't have a lot of extra crap. As a product designer, one of the first things we are taught in school is make your product do one thing and do it well. That is exact;y what this monitor does. 2000:1 contrast 2ms response time... what else can you ask for... Oh yeah 269 at bestBuy...

I know where you're coming from twenty3sky. If you need a monitor to just do its main job of displaying a picture from one input, then hey, that's great. My previous monitor was like that. I bought it a couple years ago and it was awesome, and all it had was a VGA input. That's all I really needed too.

Recently, I got a Dell 2007wfp so now I have some of these extra doodads like multiple inputs and USB connections... and I am really happy with the monitor. Not only does it do its job well, but the multiple inputs is great for connecting my desktop and my laptop without having to switch cables around, plus a TV-in would be great if using your computer as a media center PC (assuming you didn't have a TV tuner in your computer). The USB ports on the side of my monitor are awesome too. I can quickly connect my portable devices without bending down to reach my computer or behind it. It really depends on what you need it for, and in the author's opinion, that 'extra crap' can be quite handy.

What you're saying works sometimes, but not all the time. Let's use cars for example: If cars were only made to do their job, to get you from one place to another, they wouldn't have all this extra crap like airbags, air conditioning, stereos, etc. I don't know about you, but I like to be comfortable while I'm going from point A to point B.

I'd like to pick up where Brian left off, regarding special features and cars... what I really like is how on my Camaro there is this "spin-out-into-a-ditch-from-th e-highway-in-the-rain" mode, which as it turns out isn't something you can really disable. Though installing new tires has gone a long way to supress this annoying feature.