this right here is a
560 dollar
gaming
monitor it's got a 240 hertz refresh
rate g-sync and one millisecond response
times i mean gaming on this thing is way
better than gaming on
this cheapo hp
but is it six times better
now take this one
this
five
thousand dollar 8k workstation monitor
for creatives
it is way better to look at than this
peasant trash
but is it
55.55
times better
well
your mental math is correct this monitor
is only 90
and welcome back to another episode of
why the actual holy advertiser friendly
content are you guys all buying this
the best selling monitor on amazon.com
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the pavilion 22 cwa the best selling
monitor on amazon.com has over 3 600
reviews and an average rating of 4.4
stars
and admittedly it does look a little out
of place next to the kinds of products
that we typically cover on this channel
but
don't let its diminutive 21.5 inch size
and super light eight and a half pound
weight fool you this monitor is a
hundred percent
pretty not bad
just check out those colors so what's
the deal here well it's not just that hp
is selling a cheap monitor in fact the
number three best seller is only 65
bucks
it's that they're selling a cheap
monitor that's equipped with an ips
panel while these other cheapies are
sporting your run-of-the-mill tn panels
but hp doesn't make lcd panels they
source them from other manufacturers so
if i take a spudger like this
and
work it around the edge i might be able
to see who actually made this thing
so the sticker says lm215wf3
which according to the internet is an lg
panel with a full 1920 by 1080
resolution typical brightness of 250
nits and 8-bit color
but what's really interesting is that if
i type that model number into amazon i
get
a page full of replacement 2012 to 2014
imac screens and for over 200.
so either
these prices have a heavy apple tax
applied to them or hp secured an awesome
deal with lg because 90 bucks for an
imac screen ain't half bad plus you
aren't just getting the panel hp is
providing you with the casing stand i o
and their one year limited warranty
which is of course required by law
and the casing itself isn't too bad
either it's made of not terrible quality
plastic that doesn't easily get covered
in fingerprints and it is slim all the
way around though of course they did
have to cut some corners
somewhere to get the price down and the
stand is the worst offender it offers
no swivel
no pivot
or height adjust whatsoever though it
does include a little bit of tilt
that you'll probably need because the
stand is so short
and that isn't even the worst part it's
that should you take the crappy stand
off and opt to use a third-party monitor
arm instead perhaps in a multi-monitor
setup which these are awesome for thanks
to thin bezels
it's not vasa compatible
so unless you get an adapter for an
extra twenty dollars you're gonna have
to get pretty creative
bringing us to
the i o
it's pretty spartan you get one hdmi
port and one
vga port
that's it i mean you probably have low
expectations for such a budget product
but just make sure that they're low
enough to also not be surprised when
there is no hdmi cable included in the
box
so
who should buy this monitor then well if
you want a secondary or tertiary or
quaternary screen for that matter to
supplement your main display or displays
the wide viewing angles here mean that
you can put it way off to the side
without much color distortion
as for using it for your main display
could you use it for gaming
sure
while ips displays aren't known to have
the highest refresh rates or the fastest
pixel response times this one's input
leg is better than most tvs and while
you will see some smearing and fast
moving scenes
it's a far cry
better than value monitors from 10 years
ago
so do we recommend it
actually yeah
it's a great value and if you're hung up
on the crappy stand don't worry an
additional 40 bucks will get you the
number two best-selling monitor which is
also from hp and basically the same but
an inch bigger and with a vasa
compatible pivoting stand
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