HP L1706

Advantages Great picture, good colour depth, good features
Disadvantages No sound

...Along with our top peformance screen choice of the L1906 for maximum resolution and screen size for my IT team, we currently have a large number of the smaller but equally as good L1706 17 inch Monitors from HP We are a major user here at work of HP products nowadays. The reasoning behind this is we need reliability and quality of service and products. We want a good product that is robust enough to last the test of time with the staff! So while I was giving my IT team and developers were a huge screen resolution to maximise their working space, I opted for the little brother equivalent for the general office floor. After all, screen size is a little less important and saving a bit of desk space is more of a premium. However we still needed the ability to handle a good size resolution of at least 1280 x 1024. It does not seem too... Read review

Advantages Robust and easy to use
Disadvantages None so far

...I chose the hp 1706 monitor because it is very similar to the hp monitors I use at work. My workplace happens to be a very large office where there is a lot of hotdesking. As you can imagine, people don't always treat the equipment with respect. We have had these monitors installed for nearly three years and they're in use for up to 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. They've been plugged and unplugged and shifted around all over the place. They've had the most horrible substances spilled on them and they've been cleaned with all sorts of unsuitable cleaning agents. They're adjusted daily to suit the users' needs. There are no dead pixels or problems with any of them and as far as I know we haven't had to replace a single monitor. In fact they still look as good as the day they were installed. It was because of the sheer... Read review