Most low-cost desktop displays are fine for general-purpose use, but note some specialized classes of monitors that you'll also see in the $200 and under price zone. As a group, desktop budget panels are relatively portable, in the sense that most are light enough (and have a small-enough screen) to reposition around the house. But true portable monitors are ones you can throw into a bag and take with you to a coffee shop, a conference, or a hotel room. In most cases, you would use one of these attached to a laptop, with the panel acting as a second screen for productivity work. And the panel draws its power from the PC, not from a plug in the wall. Portable monitors' screen sizes range from 12 to 17 inches, and they tend to be IPS panels with mediocre color coverage (seldom rated for much more than 70% of the sRGB gamut). Most have primitive, foldable stands; in some cases, the folding stand also serves as a screen protector when in transit. A nice touch is that many make use of USB Type-C ports for input—sometimes they have two—along with, perhaps, a mini-HDMI port. As for full-size desktop displays, gaming monitors also show up in this price zone, though we would extend the "budget" range for gaming displays to roughly $150 to $250, as opposed to simply less than $200. (Most $150-to-$200 gaming monitors are 24- or 27-inch panels; the cheapest larger panels, at 31 or 32 inches, start at around $220 to $250.) Most high-performance gaming panels will set you back more money. Budget gaming monitors tend to be evenly split between screens based on vertical alignment (VA) technology and in-plane switching (IPS) tech, plus support for AMD FreeSync adaptive sync technology (or, more rarely in this budget segment, support for G-Sync at the G-Sync Compatible level), and refresh rates under 200Hz. We'll get into all that in more detail further down. You will also spot a few budget-priced photo-centric monitors, though real creative-pro panels tend to be pricier than $200. Still, the ones that come in below that price mark have high color accuracy and coverage for the sRGB space (see more about the criteria for the best monitors for photo editing), usually at FHD, aka 1080p (1,920 by 1,080 pixels) or WUXGA (1,920 by 1,200 pixels) resolution and featuring relatively high brightness levels.