Bruce_in_LA
I got two, to outfit a part time office I am opening in another city and will use a couple days per week. BUDGET: So the budget price was a big plus. CONTENTS FAULTY: The boxes are advertised on the box as containing "power cord + vga cord." One box came with 2 HDMI cables and zero power cables. This isnt a deal killer, you may have too many spares already or they are $7 at an office store. The other box came with one power cord, one vga cord, and one HDMI cord, more than the box listed. MOUNT: Be aware these are very simple flat monitors on a very simple budget plastic stand - no fancy height or angle features. I put them on a paper ream to be a couple inches higher. INPUTS: They do have a nice triplet set of VGA + DVI + HDMI input sockets. There is also a standard little audio patch plug, but if you drive it off HDMI the audio is built in to the HDMI cable. SPEAKER: Its quite tinny to the point of being sort of unpleasant. But there is one. CONTRAST: The contrast may not be so great - lettering on these monitors looks "gray" compared to "sharp black" on my Lenovo Laptop native monitor. Its usable but wont look good compared to a monitor that could easily be double or triple the investment. If you stop comparing monitors and just use this one your eyes adapt. RESOLUTION: On a Lenovo X1(Gen4), you have two video outputs, a standard HDMI and a MiniDisplayPort. Either offered to drive the monitor up to 1920x1080 with the Lenovo recommended you choose 1600x900. Also, FYI, if you have a laptop HDMI and/or a laptop MiniDisplayPort for low cost from Amazon you can get the cable of choice with any other output on the far end (HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, VGA, etc.)