I bought an Asus VW222U and have been using it for two days now. I'm comparing it to my 5 year old ViewSonic VX900. Initial thoughts:
BRIGHT! WAAAAAY TOO BRIGHT! My golly, turned brightness down to 0. If anyone uses it as is out of the box, you'll burn holes in your retinas. Once I turned down the brightness, I worked on the contrast.
And I simply can't get comfortable with the contrast for office type work. If I turn up the contrast, the letters on the screen are ?pinched? and too narrow. Seems like the white is bleeding into the black of the letters. To combat that, I have the contrast (and brightness) both at zero. This makes the background of my document almost gray, but at least the text is bearable and I can read it fairly nicely. However, still not nearly as nice as my ViewSonic for text. On my ViewSonic, the brightness is on zero, and the contrast at about 50%. The white is pretty white, yet text is black and very readable.
Overall, I'm quite disappointed. I can't imagine how this would get a good review for office type work. Even light work, I can't get comfortable looking at it.
Now, the pros: the colors blow away the ViewSonic. Pictures that looked okay on the ViewSonic are MUCH more vibrant on the Asus. Again, I played with settings, and found that if I turned up the saturation to 50 it looked best. (Needed to switch to ?scenery? mode in order to access the saturation menu choice).
Also ? zero dead pixels. And nice styling.
I don't think I'll return it, not worth the hassle since I got it for $200 after MIR. And I can always use the ViewSonic for reading and office work, and use the new monitor more for pictures and video editing. But I simply can't recommend it. Not sure if this is a different screen from what was initially sold as VW222U, but it is just BAD for text on a white background.