For the life of me I don't know why HP pictures their monitors with part of the surround molding being a light gray. I almost passed up an incredible deal on one of their monitors recently because I thought that was what it actually looked like. After finding out that it was a completely black surround, and not as pictured, I bought a 2311 monitor and couldn't be happier.

I recall having the same problem with an ASUS model a couple years ago. Fortunately I was able to confirm it was all black haha. Poor marketing.