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Not bad but not great from my experience thus far. To start, its definitely a pretty monitor with its simplistic design, minimal bezels, and a limited amount of IPS glow/backlight bleed. The resolution is excellent for the size of the monitor, and everything appears to be crisp! For anyone interested, the screen is by no means glossy, however, it does reflect light. However, where this monitor falls completely flat is in the OSD menu, the place where you adjust the displays settings. This monitor has a total of four Novo Vision modes, Text Mode, Web Pic Mode, Video Mode, and Low Blue Light Mode. Personally, I would have liked to either have more Modes to choose from or to have the option to adjust the color myself, as there isnt an option between Web Pic Mode and Video Mode I have to deal with the colors being either too warm or cool. Adjusting the Brightness and Contrast while on Web Pic Mode helped me get close to what I would have wanted, however, the monitor doesnt save your adjustments to both Brightness and Contrast. Upon powering on and off the monitor or allowing the monitor to sleep those two settings are reset. The default Brightness and Contrast arent enough for me personally, so enabling DCR gives it a slight boost but its still not enough (You cant adjust the brightness and contrast with this enabled). Now Im not sure if this is something Lenovo can patch with an update or what, but its a shame that neither settings are saved. There are two settings completely grayed out in the menu, color, and scaling. I would have liked to check these settings out. You can also adjust the response time with Overdrive, however, changing it from Normal to Extreme seems to cause ghosting/trailing. There are drivers available for this display on Lenovos support page for this product, however, I havent noticed any difference after installing them. In Device Manager, it does show the Model rather than simply stating that its a PnP device but thats all I have noticed. The monitors Refresh Rate in Windows defaults to 59Hz for whatever reason, but you can easily enough change this to 60Hz. Unfortunately, as with the Brightness and Contrast settings, it too resets, however unlike the others you dont have to power off the display for it to reset. After setting it to 60Hz and applying it, then hitting OK, and opening the display settings again itll show up as being set to 59Hz. Im not sure if this will be much of an issue but its something to think about. On my unit, I was unlucky enough to have a stuck pixel in the lower right portion of the screen. I attempted to use JScreenFix to fix it but it, unfortunately, hadnt worked. This is unfortunate, but I can look past it. Ill try again and note whether Im successful or not with it. Ill be sure to investigate a bit further and play around some more to see if I can find any more information. The lack of in depth reviews has been a real bummer regarding this monitor. Continued. If anyone is interested to know whether or not you can overclock the displays refresh rate, you can and cant. I was curious and tested pushing 75Hz through the Nvidia Control Panel at 2560x1440 and I was alerted that I was out of range and to return to "2560x1440 @ 60Hz". I tried again at 70Hz and although that worked and I could access my desktop, the same out of range message came popping up around my display. Oddly enough, I have begun noticing significant artifacting which starts up in spurts at random. Ill try another Display Port cable to see if the issue persists, and if it does Ill include a video. Artifacting does not occur while using my 4K LG television as a monitor. The issue appears to come and go. I managed to record footage, however, I have yet to encounter the issue again after. Update: Thanks to another Amazon user, I have been able to adjust both the Brightness, Contrast, and Color settings with them being stored! To do so, I had to set the display mode to Text Mode, and "Whallah!" it worked! In my opinion, having the ability to adjust these settings makes a night and day difference! Update 01/07/2018: I recently purchased a second one of these which unfortunately had issues. The back of the display wasnt flush and upon setting it up next to my original there was a noticeable difference in height. There was also a substantial amount of back-light bleed across the bottom of the display. Amazon quickly sent out a replacement and upon assembling it I was a little surprised. Theres a plastic clip on the back of the displays stand which on my original display and the defective one was completely transparent, but on the new monitor the clip was more opaque. Curiously I checked the assembly dates shown on each box and sure enough the replacement was extremely recent, while the others dated back to October. Now I havent really dug into what exactly differs between these displays, but I should note the calibration appears to differ from the other two. The two older units looked identical while the newer unit isnt quite as bright. It doesnt exactly bother me, but I figured Id note it for those intending to pick up another.