What do we see when we look at a monitor? Just pixels and colors, or something more? Our hopes? Our dreams? A combination of the two we call “dropes”? Isn’t there something you’ve lost and searched for ever since – innocence, security, a left sock? Because really, isn’t each of us searching for something larger than ourselves, unless we’re hungry, in which case something much smaller would be sufficient?

The Soyo DYLM2284 isn’t just a 22” widescreen LCD monitor. It’s a window. A window to somewhere else. Maybe it’s a place beyond anything we’ve ever known. Maybe it’s a place deep inside ourselves – probably not in a sexual sense, although it can be. And on the other side of that window is a vision of the future – a drope, if you will – rendered in vivid WSXGA video, so lifelike you can practically reach out and kill it.

The question, then, that each of us must answer is: do we leave that window closed, and suffocate in the stifling, flatulent air of yesterday? Or do we open that window, and breathe deeply of tomorrow’s flatulent air today? No monitor can bring back your lost childhood. Except maybe for one that falls on your head and makes you mentally regress to age six. Or maybe an enchanted monitor that makes you switch bodies with one of your kids to teach us all a valuable lesson about life, empathy, and pubic hair. The Soyo DYLM2284 Citrine Series 22” LCD Monitor isn’t that monitor. But, with a little faith and a lot of eye of newt, you just might find that it has a magic all its own.

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