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Priced in the range from $150 to $180 the new LG flatiron W2053TQ provides you with a very decent movie and gaming performance along with a couple of useful eco friendly options. The matte screen is better than the HP 2009m’s glossy and reflective screen and lets you easily see the dark details. The two are very much even in terms of performance but HP loses out on the cost and the more intuitive onscreen display of LG. So in case you are on budget you can prefer HP whereas, those looking for conserving energy consumption LG is the better option.

Design and Features

The LG Flatron comes with a finger print attracting and a glossy black bezel surrounding a 20-inch non reflective matte screen. The complete display is slightly longer than the HP 2009m’s 19.75 inch display. The back of the monitor has the overall glossy motif and comes with an arc shaped vent. As a sole ergonomic option the LG Flatron W2053TQ has a 15 degree back tilt with no pivoting, panel swiveling or screen height adjustment. The power button is placed above the groove on the bezel and to the left of it is the touch sensitive OSD array, which includes 6 buttons: Smart, Fun, Menu, Engine/Down, Source/Up, and Auto set. Each OSD button is invisible, but it illuminates with Red lights as soon as you touch any of the button names. The navigation on the whole is a bit unintuitive and clunky.

As far as performance is concerned this LG Flatron model scored and matched the HP 2009m’s 87 score on CNET lab’s Display mate based performance tests. Monitors from both the labels handled text pretty well, however the HP performed better in the 9500K color temperature than the 6500K color temperature. And the exact opposite happened for LG which performed much better at 6500K as compared with 9500K temperature at which the screen turned bluish. The brightness score at 270 candelas per meter square is lower than the 300 as claimed by LG W2053TQ model. HP 2009m fares much worse with a brightness score of 255 candelas per square meter. Both monitors when exposed to the black screen test, exhibit heavy backlight bleed through on both the top and bottom edges of the display.

In terms of power consumption tests, the LG has a large approximately 3.55 watt power draw during standby and for a 20 inch monitor the On/Default power draw is higher than ones liking. As compared to Lenovo L215’s 28.15 watt power draw, LG drew 37.21 watts in this state. However under the Eco option LG improved upon its carbon footprint drawing to only 20.36 watts in the On/Default state. As per experts the average cost to run LG W2053TQ per year in a normal manner would be $13.56 and $8.54 with the power-saving features turned on. For similar comparisons Lenovo comes to $8.93 and HP $9.46 per year.

In all, the LG model comes with eco friendly options for lower energy costs, and has a decent movie and gaming performance. It lacks in the navigation options and has the only ergonomic option of screen tilt.