HP Pavilion 15" Multimedia Reviews
Product Type: Hewlett-Packard CRT monitors
Newest Review: ... purchase it with a Pavilion PC, as I did, It'll look right at home parked next to the tower and speakers. To be honest, ... more
... the only thing I noticed when I set the monitor up was the extra cord sticking out of the back of the casing. It seems that the cord was a standard audio input cable and jack, as the M50 has a built-in microphone directly above the screen. I'm not sure I understand the logic of integrating a microphone into a monitor (web conferencing, maybe?), but it certainly hasn't hurt anything by being there. Just for kicks, I tried it out, and it actually picks up sound very well up to 10 feet away. If HP's going t...more
Customer HP Pavilion 15" Multimedia Reviews (1)
by - written on 10/03/01, updated on 10/03/01 (Very useful, 476 readings)
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I bought this monitor for about £250 sown from £300. So it was actually quite a good deal for me. The M50's casing is semi-stylish in the same fashion as HP's entire Pavilion line of PC's. It's as if they really want to capture some of that iMac 'clear casings and curves' crowd, but don't feel that they can risk alienating the more traditional 'grognard' crowd that won't stand for some strange looking THING on their desk masquerading as a monitor. To me the look is attractive, but not particularly so -- it's nice to see ANY departure from the cream colored boxes we all know so well, and the contrasting shades of grey ... Read the complete review
Looks good, quite affordable. 
Heavy!