I brought mine's at the local Costco. The price was right and so was the size. The monitor is light enough that anyone over the age of 15 and under 90 can carry it with considerable ease. It come with instructions, CD disk and all that but unless you are a computer guru, setting it up and hooking it to your computer is all you have to do.
The hooked up was very easy, just matter of connecting the cables. A ten year old buried in his PSP can do it with ease. There is an input for HDMI so if your computer can handled, you use your monitor in HD mode. I had this monitor for a month and half now and there has been no trouble or problem with this monitor. Pixels are fine, no dead lines, no power problems, this monitor appears to be well made and flawless in its performance. Your photos looked great, movies looked great and it give a very excellent color performance all in all. Refresh rate of 2ms isn't the fastest but its faster than many.
But why it didn't get a five star is because for two following reasons:
1) The monitor on the stand cannot be adjust. I was fine with it but there are taller or shorter people then me.
2) I thought that the screen was overly too bright and adjusting the brightness compromise other qualities of the monitor so I adjusted just enough that it wasn't too bright but it could use bit more adjustment to turn it down. I can live with this but it is a minor annoyance.
So in the nutshell, this is a fine monitor that should served you well for a pretty long time. I am not exactly fond of the current trend of having all the computer monitors in a "wide-screen" mode, I kind of prefer the regular 4:3 size monitor in a 23 inch size. But it appears that no one is making such monitors..wide-screen or nothing.
Pros:
+ Has both VGA and HDMI
+ VGA actually looks really good on this monitor
+ Available through Costco (i.e. cheaper plus has Costco Warranty)
+ No dead pixels
+ Fast 2ms refresh rate (not fastest, but faster than many others)
Cons:
- No Vesa mount as far as I can tell
- No automatic brightness sensor control
- Changing display settings for different modes is not a simple one button push
- Not adjustable
- No speakers
Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with the monitor. I'm not overly wow'd by the monitor; someone else with more experience with monitors will have to chime in on how this monitor compares to others. I did research other, what appeared to be better, monitors from Asus and ViewSonic in terms of specs and features, however, the price, convenience and warranty of Costco ultimately made me decide to go with the Samsung here.
FYI, the Samsung S23A550H is the next model up and has an Eco Light Sensor which automatically changes the brightness based on the light in the room. It's a little bit more pricy, but may be worth it just for that feature.
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