Lenovo D186

Lenovo D186 Wide

Big-screen monitors are all the rage these days, but not everyone has the money or the desktop real estate for a larger display. Enter the Lenovo D186 Wide ($99 list), an 18.5-inch LCD monitor with a sub-$100 price tag and a very limited feature set. The D186 is an analog display that delivers good color quality but has trouble displaying light and dark shades of the grayscale. It's not meant for heavy graphical tasks like image editing, but it is more than capable of handling your basic Web browsing and light office workload. The D186's plastic cabinet is the same Business Black color as Lenovo's ThinkCentre and ThinkPad line of desktops and laptops and is meant to compliment both. It sports a shiny Lenovo logo on the upper bezel but that's it for embellishments. The 7 pound cabinet sits atop a round black base that allows you to tilt the panel forward and backward but does not support swivel, height, or pivot adjustments. On the right side of the lower bezel are five buttons, including the power switch and four navigation keys. Two of the buttons are hot keys for adjusting brightness and invoking the Auto-Adjust feature which automatically adjusts clock, phase, size, and position settings.