<snip> > One bit of advice: don't go for a flatpanel unless you know what you are doing. > I conseder them a necessary evil on laptops 8). They have only one good > resolution, are slow to refresh... and for the money you give on a 17" LCD you > can get a top of the line 19" CRT (I've paid $520 for a NEC MultySync FP950 > last spring and I'm very happy). I second that! Had a 15" flatscreen for the last two years and I wasn't all that good, would have loved to have a 19". > That said, I've had nothing but good experiences with NEC and Hitachi CRTs. I just got a Hitachi CM772 for my new box overhere and I love it! We have a third, I use a Hitachi CM751 (19") both at work and at home at they make the 17" flat screen that the company president had to have look like a POS. Not only that but buy.com has the CM771 for $362, less than half of what we paid for a flatscreen. http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10246389&loc=14577