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I'm thinking of buying a new monitor, specifically a 1920x1200 one (which seems to mean 24" or 23"). Does anyone have any recommendations for/against?

My monitor buying so far has either been based on seeing something in the flesh and concluding it's OK, or buying something second hand and therefore happy to risk it being no good, and neither of these approaches have yet led to disaster. I'm not expecting 2nd-hand to be an option here however.

I've had a (so far rather brief) look at a HP W2408H and looked OK. The L-2442WD (which seems to go under various brands) is much cheaper and doesn't seem to have attracted bad reviews (though it's hard to find any not on a vendor website, which seriously undermines their credibility), and I've not yet had the chance to see one for myself. The Acer AL2416WB is also pretty cheap but has some fairly bad press. The Apple one may well be lovely but is also significantly more expensive than the alternatives.

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gerald_duck

I hate buying monitors.

Plasma screens burn in; LCD has poor black levels; CRTs are heavy and bulky and inefficient and not digital; DLP works best when projected and isn't useful with bright ambient light.

*sigh*

For the moment, I'm sticking with CRTs because poor black levels really get to me, and for some perplexing reason you can't get a lot of pixels in a small area on a TFT… unless you buy a laptop. Why can't they put laptop displays in desktop enclosures? You can get a CRT that fits 1920x1440 onto an 18"-diagonal visible area — that's getting on for twice as many pixels per square inch as the kind of TFT you're considering!

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gjm11.livejournal.com

I concur. I suspect that part of the reason is that Bigger Is Better is burned into lots of people's brains. My own opinion is more or less the reverse, and it sounds like yours is too, but monitors get sold on the basis of physical size and I have a nasty suspicion that a lot of buyers don't even ask how many pixels they have. Alas.

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ewx.livejournal.com

Dell and Dabs both categorize monitors by physical size before number of pixels, which in the Dabs case made it quite inconvenient for me to get a suitable list, so I think you're right at least to the extent that they tend to be sold that way.