I have this monitor. It's a nice monitor--nothing special: 17" LCD, 1280x1024, integrated speakers. They're not bad speakers actually, for being so small... no bass, of course. There's only one problem with them: when the monitor goes into power-save mode the speakers go with it. This makes it somewhat difficult to get the notification alarms that programs issue... OK, impossible. So, I went out to get some cheap 2.1 speakers--why get speakers without a sub? I found some fairly good and cheap ones for half off with $10 rebate and $5 instant savings at CompUSA (they've always got something useful on "sale"): OK sound, on/off switch, analog volume knob... everything I need, but mostly no more "lost" alarms. And for only $15 plus tax, it's a steal.
Now, when they were designing this monitor, did they even consider the possibility that users would want to keep listening--for alarms? to music?--once the monitor was "off"? Probably not. The integrated speakers were a space-saver; I just wish they had been a little less integrated--a separate power circuit split off before the power-save control would have been a nice feature.
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