dells's 24 inch widescreen lcd.

[Joe DeFuria]

Shouldn't LCD screen parts be cheaper to produce than CRT parts? They have a plastic screen instead of glass, and are much lighter and smaller.

Cost of materials has virtually no bearing on a product's value.
End of story.

Holy crap...Mize said exactly what I was going to say.

 

[Pete]

I'd rather have two 2001FPs.

You're just saying that b/c you already have one, so you're halfway there.

 

[Windfire]

I've been eyeing the HP 23" and it costs around $1500.

My eyes are now looking at the Dell.

24" (1920x1200)
16ms response (or better)
Lots of ports (DVI, component, etc.)
4 port USB2
6-in-1 reader

My 6800GT should run many games at 1920x1200 (no FSAA). For those that don't support wide-screen 1600x1200 will do fine. I plan to run it at 1:1 so there isn't any stretch--the game will simply have black bars on the sides--no big deal. The key is to keep it running contently at the native resolution.

Best yet, when I'm doing .Net C# work I'll have a very nice time with the extra realistate for the IDE. This is actualy my primary driver.

 

[RussSchultz]

Best yet, when I'm doing .Net C# work I'll have a very nice time with the extra realistate for the IDE. This is actualy my primary driver.

I have a 20" at work that I turn portrait when coding.
1200x1600 means lots of lines of code.

 

[Windfire]

Best yet, when I'm doing .Net C# work I'll have a very nice time with the extra realistate for the IDE. This is actualy my primary driver.

I have a 20" at work that I turn portrait when coding.
1200x1600 means lots of lines of code.

Yeah, that would be nice. At work we only get 19" tubes so we're pretty much stuck at 1280x1024. It's amazing, I can have two nice workstations, but the monitors are only 19". Cheap.

When working at home though, the 1920x1280 will be nice. With VS .Net you end up with a lot of docked windows (SQL, etc, etc.) that take up so much horizontal space. However, I'll also give Portrait a whirl. I can't imagine what it would be like with 1920 resolution in portrait!