Here's two cool 24 inch widescreen LCD monitors. They both have a resolution of 1920 x 1200. That's great for games that support it, but you need to have a decent videocard to push pixels at this resolution - especially with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering on. Some games that I have and would like to play in widescreen are (of course) Half-life 2 and its following episodes; Age of Empires 3; and Far Cry. Valve makes the Half-life series work perfectly in widescreen and Age of Empires can work, but I've heard it stretches the HUD at the bottom of the screen. Anyway, these widescreen monitors are great for a lot more things than just games - widescreen movies look nice, and you have a lot more screen area for working on things like Maya. You can have two windows side-by-side, for example. And LCD monitors are awesome because they don't put off as much heat or take up as much space as the old CRT monitors (yep, I know all about that, my 19 inch CRT is almost as deep as my desk - they really isn't much room left in front of it).
Oh, by the way, the silver monitor here is the Samsung Syncmaster 244T($1759.99) and the black monitor is the Dell Ultrasharp 2407FPW (on sale right now for $799.99). These prices are in Canadian dollars and the Dell is definitely a better price...:)
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