Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's been an adventure trying to find a monitor to work with my Surface Pro 3. I've tried several: GeChic 2501H, Asus Mb169B+, ASUS MB169C+, and this AOC e1659Fwux-Pro. The AOC was the first one I got to work right out of the box. I literally just took it out of the box, connected it up, downloaded the driver from the displaylink.com website and ... voila!!!..it worked! However, of the 4, it's my least favorite. Pros: --This has by far the best and most handy stand. It's built right in and works great. Very stable and provides support for whatever angle I want to place the display at. --Comes with a neoprene soft case. Not the most protective, but better than nothing (which is what the GeChic came with (nothing!)). --Ease of use. Soooo easy to get connected and worked right away without any tweaking, grumbling, hours of searching forums for answers, or anything else. It just plain worked. --Comes with a Y cable that has 2 USB ends... 1 to connect to the device, and 1 for added power. Excellent! (The Asus MB169B+/C+ should come with this as well, but don't and I had to buy one, just to even attempt using them due to the low power output from the SP3 USB port.) Cons: --It's super heavy compared to both the Asus MB169B+ and the GeChic 2501H. --The display quality is by far the worst of the GeChic 2501H or the Asus MB169B+. Colors are washed out, it's not very sharp, the screen has a lot of glare to it, and it's just plain terrible to look at, especially next to the awesome screen of the Surface Pro 3. (The displays of the GeChic and the Asus are far superior and barely noticeable in difference when side-by-side. I've added photos to show the AOC next to the Surface Pro 3, so you can judge for yourself (notice the difference in the color of the green border on the Excel spreadsheet and the washed out colors of the desktop background...the SP3 s on the left, the AOC e1659Fwux-Pro is on the right. also added one for the ASUS MB169B+. The lighting isn't quite as good in this one, but that's my fault, not the monitor's...look at how close the green colors are for the Excel windows and how close the background blue colors are on the desktop photo. And the clarity.. trust me, the ASUS wins this hands down compared to the AOC. ) There are some really good features about this monitor, it's just too bad the most important part.. the display screen...is so awful. It's going back and I'm keeping the ASUS MB169B+, which has a GREAT screen, much better color and clarity, and super light weight.