Let me clarify what types of connectors this monitor offers. There are three types of video connectivity at the back of this monitor: old-school 15-pin VGA, DVI-D & full-size DisplayPort, one of each. It has DisplayPort, I know for sure because I was running it via DisplayPort. (I posted stock photos so you can clearly see the ports this monitor has.)You could buy an adapter and convert the DVI-D to DVI-I if you needed or wanted, I suppose. (DVI-D means 'digital only;' you will NOT be able to run analog signal into the DVI port. You can use the VGA port for that. But you might use the aforementioned adapter to marry a DVI-I CABLE to the DVI-D port on the monitor (that will NOT accept a DVI-I plug), assuming you only wish to 'extract' digital signal from the cable.)I have the drivers on the CD, but I've never needed them. It will plug-and-play into VGA mode and the graphics card driver handles the rest.It comes with a DVI cable, a DisplayPort cable, a USB Type B (printer-style) cable and a power cord.Some poster was disappointed that this monitor does not support USB video connectivity. Guess what? It doesn't claim to anywhere on this page. This page does plainly state " Featuring DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA inputs, this monitor …"So what is the story about the USB ports? Well, at the top of the page it plainly states "… plus two USB connections for peripherals like mouse and keyboard." In other words, you connect the provided USB Type B (printer-style) cable to the back of the pedestal of the monitor with a traditional USB port on the back of your machine … and that gives you two traditional USB connections on the right-hand side of the pedestal. I use one of them for my keyboard/mouse fob/dongle so that they will be close to the dongle.Some poster was disappointed this monitor did not support HDMI. Guess what? HDMI is only mentioned once on this entire page. Down near the bottom, under the heading of "Product Description" where it says "S24E650DW 1000:1 DVI/DP/USB … HDMI ports available." I read this as slop-copywriting on the part of Amazon. Neither the Samsung product spec sheet nor its product homepage make any reference to HDMI whatsoever. Other than the fact that the Samsung product spec sheet specifically states "HDMI: No."Some poster was disappointed that the user's manual shows all sorts of video connectors on the back of the monitor that doesn't exist. True, in a sense. Samsung issued a 'shared' user's guide for this model along with ELEVEN other models. That was durn lazy of Samsung … and yes I agree the manual is quite confusing what with diagrams & images for all these models mixed up all through the user's guide.PLANNED OBSOLESCENCEI have 13 years of experience with this general style of Samsung monitor. I just purchased this exact model Samsung monitor for the second time. Before that I owned a very similar predecessor, the Samsung Syncmaster 245BW. It is on that foundation of experience that I conclude there's some planned obsolescence in this product.This specific model was designed to target business customers. That explains to me the provided backwards compatibility to old-school VGA (instead using the space for an HDMI connector), the rock-solid pedestal so uncommon these days on consumer/retail models, the 1920x1200 resolution vs. the traditional 1920x1080 … as well as the height adjustment, tilt and swivel functions.Unfortunately, I believe that also explains the planned obsolescence.Specifically that there is a set of capacitors on the power supply board that will slowly fry over several years … and they sense the incoming signal from the machine and/or graphics card. The failure is slow. At first the monitor will work but the on/off switch will fail to turn on the monitor from power-save mode (so you have to give it an unplug/re-plug) … and/or the monitor will only light up via a reboot that throws it an extra-kick. Then it gets to the point that if you turn the monitor off (as in a reboot) you have to unplug its power & video cable for several hours to let the capacitors drain before it will turn on again at reboot. Then eventually it fails entirely.On my original SyncMaster, it failed at 5 years. An independent PC repair shop diagnosed this as the exact problem … and I paid them about $75 to repair it. Four years later the new set of capacitors failed in the same way. I cut my losses, retired the SyncMaster and purchased my first S24E650DW. I figured after 9 years, Samsung quality control had picked up on the bad capacitors situation and resolved it in new models going forward.I was wrong. The exact same failure occurred at the fourth year in my first S24E650DW. Which I replaced.Again, after nine years of warranty repairs and customer feedback, they must have surely known. Which leads me to believe that Samsung is intentionally using a set of capacitors they know will slowly fail. Google it, you'll find I am not alone regarding this failing capacitor issue.And that they figure deeper-pocket business customers won't think too much about it and just buy another new Samsung monitor.DISPLAYPORT FAILUREOh, yes, I should also mention that this monitor, like many Samsung monitors (and a few ASUS monitors as well), constantly fails to properly recognize input via its DisplayPort. You'll get an infamous "Check Signal Cable - DisplayPort" message. Search that phrase+"Samsung" and you'll find this complaint covered many times in board discussions and YT videos. If you are one of the lucky ones, you'll be able to unplug the monitor from its power source for a while (draining the capacitors and/or volatile RAM) and then replug it and the problem will go away. In my case, my DisplayPort connection worked 100% for several months then failed, never to recover. So I gave up and just switched to the DVI-D port and cabling. Zero issues via DVI. Online discussions reveal that Samsung won't acknowledge the issue, but it's way too specific to Samsung product to be anything other than a Samsung design flaw of some kind.CONCLUSIONI like the features of this model so much ... the sturdy pedestal, the up/down adjustment, the solid build, the USB hub, aesthetics, the image quality, the fact I have ever yet to lose a single pixel … that I just bought a second S24E650DW (to replace the first). Even though I know it's almost certain to fail the exact same way in 4-5 years. At least this time it was $170 instead of $270. (At the time, I got a Amazon price match for it at Staplers.)The way I see it, this strategy buys me lots of time to shop around for a non-Samsung equivalent.