The “Quick Start Guide” was shocking in its thickness… certainly hooking up this monitor can’t need over 90 pages of “Quick Start” info? No, it doesn’t, but it does have three pages of instructions in each of over 30 languages! I paid an extra $12.63 of recycling fee when buying this monitor… and I have 90 pages of manual I can’t use (well 87 if I decide to read the English and French section).
The warranty pamphlet has a truly impressive innovation. It has a sticker with the serial number right on it! If you thought the place to write down the serial number was great, this will really knock your socks off! Unfortunately, the warranty goes down hill from there: reading and understanding a warranty is bad enough with out having it written in English so bad that it reads like the subtitles of a foreign film with lousy dialogue. Have a taste here.
Also, LCD monitors can have dead pixels. Asus, like other manufactures, feels that a certain number of dead (also called stuck or bad pixels) are acceptable. That’s why monitors should only be purchased from a retailer that gives you a few weeks to bring the monitor back no questions asked.
Setup is simple. The monitor slides onto and clicks into the stand (at the left of the picture). The ports face downwards, and cables pass through the U shaped manager you can see in the second picture. The software was not used. I suspect it is more useful for the monitor’s sister model, which includes an integrated webcam.
