Featuring a very high neck, a very deep stand and a thin bezel, the LG L1710B evoked the iMac screen’s ability to ‘float’ in front of you. What’s more, the LG panel could be rotated to portrait mode if required, a feature that made it perfect for lots of document use or for graphic artists.

The L1710B also had a ‘LightView’ feature, which toggled the screen settings and optimised for text, movies, and photos with both day and night settings for all. These work excpetionally well, and are very handy inclusions particualry if you’ll be using this screen for multiple applications.

In all tests the LG passed with flying colours aside from a small problem with washed out whites, and a very narrow vertical viewing angle. In every other regard it did well, and scored perfectly for horizontal viewing angles.

Its ability to display movies and 3D was on par with the CMV, and was marginally better when displaying text and the Windows desktop.

It’s a pretty good monitor all-round, although it is slightly expensive. An added bonus though was that the neck comes with three USB ports (one down to the PC, two for USB devices).