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Loved it but had to return it anyway
This was the best monitor I ever bought. The picture is crisp, colors vivid, etc. The only minor gripes are:

a) The blue power LED on the front is too bright. I had to cover it with something for viewing the screen in a dim room.

b) The 1920×1080 resolution is fine for movies but is vertically challenged for normal computer use. For example, my 1600×1200 20″ LCD monitor can fit more text on the screen (and is vertically taller despite the lower diagonal measurement) and is thus better suited for business work such as reading annual reports, etc.

This was all very minor. The monitor quality is just excellent. I, like the others here, bought this at a warehouse retailer at an extremely attractive price. They sold like hot cakes! When I went to return mine, there were none left for sale.

Why did I return it? XP Professional could produce this resolution fine. However, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10 both had troubles. I ended up having to drive it at a lower resolution in Ubuntu, which resulted in annoyingly fuzzy text. Later, I discovered that Ubuntu 8.10 is quite happy with 1920×1200 but cannot seem to do 1920×1080–at least with my hardware. Fedora 10 also only worked properly with 1920×1200 and had to drive the monitor at a lower-than-native resolution. Since I need to use Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu) for scientific work, the monitor had to go back. It was emotionally difficult to return it: so much screen real estate; so much quality! Viewsonic has produced an excellent monitor.

If you’re using Windows, it’ll work just dandy. But for business use (reading vertically oriented documents) consider a 1920×1200 also before selecting.