For the purpose I bought this, I'm thrilled. I wanted a second monitor to use at home with my laptop for productivity. My original plan was to get a 29-34 inch ultrawide (I do have discrete graphics in my laptop to power it) but the price of this panel and it's size caught my eye. Honestly for coding I really appreciate the extra height and it is plenty wide for tiling windows side by side. So for productivity this monitor is great. Something else I really liked was that it has vga input in addition to HDMI and display port which saved me having to buy another display port cable since I have enough old vga cables laying around and my laptop only has mini display port and vga out. Another plus is that the length of the power cable is generous (probably about 5-6+ ft) so it can reach if you need it too. It also has a reasonably small bezel (still far from bezel-less) which is great for minimizing the distance between it and my laptop monitor which makes for a more seamless experience. The cons, none of which are deal breakers for me and my use case, are the stand was somewhat difficult to attach a task made much easier with 2 people. Most of the plastic housing is glossy black, not matte. The support post that holds the monitor on the stand is not very rigid so if you bump your desk the monitor will shake for a little while (a matter of 2-3 seconds). It is only 1080p. The footprint of the stand is relatively large, but it is thin and flat so you can still use the space it takes up to hold smaller stuff. There is no up or down sliding adjustment, only tilt and no left right swivel. I haven't used it for gaming at all so I can't comment on that aspect (I'd expect it might be somewhat subpar for that use case, though it does claim decently low latency). For the price I paid I'm very happy with this monitor and if you are just looking to have some more low-cost screen real estate for productivity I would highly recommend this monitor.