Contrasty and very sharp, I like the fact it has two hdmi ports so I can swap between the laptop and the ipad - which works beautifully with apple's video adapter plug. Stand seems solid enough once I attached the provided screws. The menu button is reasonably easy to get to on the bottom center of the screen. Audio quality in the headphones is a little on the tinny side - the laptop is certainly better for that. Ipad games look great on it too. I'm pleased I went with this - no complaints from me.