I'll start this by saying that I would not pay full price ($150) for this monitor. I originally bought one on sale for $80 and liked it enough to buy 3 more for $100 each. It's a really good monitor, but I wouldn't say it's great. There are others in the $150 price range with a better picture, but if you can get it on sale for around $100 then I think it's well worth that. I use this monitor paired up as a second screen with iMac computers and MacBook Pro Retina laptops, which have amazing screen resolution so the AOC monitor just naturally doesn't look as great next to one of those. It serves as a solid second monitor, though. I really love the overall geometric design of the monitor and the matte finish. That was probably one of the main buying features that led me to purchase 3 more after my first. It looks really modern and nice and the screen size is very big. I would recommend this monitor as long as you understand that it's nothing close to a retina or 4k display, but still a very nice picture.