last november i went to the local pc store and checked out their demo models on display.
i bought a 17" polyview LCD with DVI for around $360.
I am still happy with it !
the image is crystal clear using the  DVI  cable @ 1280x1024.
it is however too bright, so i have the brightness set to zero.
there is a 19" version for around $470.

(my bro in the next room has a 23" cinema display - so i do have something to compare with)

-geoff


well the quotes for decent quality monitors that I got were not all that different from Apples pricing - only around $140 difference and they were all 19" and most were not wide screen and some of them cam in above Apple's price of $999 ex GST

sure you can get an LCD for $300 but, and please, please, please excuse the language here as there is nothing else I can use to describe the "quality" of the image that they display that would encompassed the disgust that I feel seeing good money wasted one them...

they are shit.... compleat and total shit - even worse than the cheapest nastiest CRT - staff here are rebelling against them - at first they were all keen as mustard to get them now all they want to do is get rid of them and get something that they can read without looking like they are squinting through a fogged up window trying to read some fudged up text.




I'm a little curious as to why people would buy an Apple LCD when other LCD screens seem cheaper. I'm sure there'd be reasons and perhaps it may be helpful for other users to know them.

Ruben A. Franke