Yes to hooking up a monitor (VGA connector). It's a standard X86 type PC that comes with a IDE header flash drive with an OS loaded that you can remove and replace with a hard drive. It has 6 USB ports, a serial, VGA, mouse, keyboard ports. It alone cost around $20 then the hard drive, memory upgrade (didn't really need that though), makes up the rest of the $35. I figure the energy savings should pay for itself in no time.