I'd call it normal warming up for a lower-cost monitor. The Dell 17" monitors we have at the office (well, not _me_) are really slow to warm up, 30-40 seconds. They just slowly fade in from black. My Viewsonic EF70 17" and LG Studioworks 995SE 19" snap right on. A minute would drive me nuts.

-Zeke
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