[mullingitover]

It's time to start calling these things what they are: monitors.

Nobody would touch a monitor with a 30-second startup time. Retailers should start listing startup as another statistic in the product info, along with screen size and the number of inputs.

[sitharus]

You clearly haven't used the ViewSonic monitors I have at work. They take a good 20 seconds to turn on from standby.

It's most frustrating as I use them as externals for my laptop. The laptop display springs in to life, but as I have one of the externals set as primary I'm waiting a while before I can see the unlock screen.