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#808 - HP W19E Widescreen LCD |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Saturday, 21 April 2007 |
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Packaging and Contents:
A preface to this review: We are reviewing a sample provided by Geeks.com that has been refurbished and de-branded for better pricing. This monitor is a HP W19E LCD monitor without the HP name on the packaging or labels. This monitor sells from HP.com at $240 and at Geeks.com for only $174.99!
Geeks sent this sample to us for review in a fairly large brown shipping box. Inside the shipping box was a generic looking LCD retail box. The retail box contains two large pieces of foam holding everything into place. Note that there was no protection for the screen itself other than the plastic sleeve that it was in. This should be fine since the retail box was shipped within a larger package filled with air pillows, but still worth mentioning.
 
The HP W19E LCD monitor comes with a round plastic base, the 19” widescreen LCD panel, a 1/8th inch audio patch cable, a standard power cable and lastly a standard 15-pin VGA patch cable. Notice that there is no User’s Manual included; probably due to the de-branding efforts. The manual can be downloaded in PDF form from HP.com.
The Small Stuff:
Here you can see the standard 15-pin VGA cable and the audio patch cable. Nothing real special here, just standard includes. One thing you will notice though is that the audio patch cable does have a filter on both ends. Not a huge deal, but worth its own two cents.
 
The silver base for this monitor is simply a round plastic base with no weighting and does not offer any height nor swivel adjustments. This is common with budget displays and not really something that we can ding it for, but these obviously would have been nice to have had for stability and user preference. In the center of the base, set back about an inch, is an extrusion that locks the LCD panel to the base. This is also made of plastic and has no screws to secure the panel, just the snap-in tab.
  
The back of the LCD panel has a hollow pillar to which you can snap onto the base. This is very straight forward and really doesn’t require much effort. From this view you can get a glimpse of the I/O jacks.
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