Still haven't replaced my monitor.

I thought I was done writing about the troubles of buying a really good LCD display, hopefully before my CRT finally dies. Which, I might add, it stopped doing some of the antics that were causing me to think that failure was impending.

So my friend Dawn emailed me, pointing out that I could get a 27" iMac for a reasonable amount of money. And how you the 27" iMac has an input port so that another computer can drive the display, if I wasn't comfortable with moving all the way over to the Mac platform.

Which, by the way, I'd love to do. It's just that I don't think I want to replace a perfectly functional desktop computer just because I wanted to run a different operating system and also because I don't think an iMac has the right degree of expandability. I may be running Windows at home, but I hate it.

On the other hand, there's problems with the 27" iMac's display that caused Apple to stop shipping it for a while. Which, coincidentally, uses the same panel that the new Dell U2711 has.

Meanwhile, some of the major flaws of the Dell U2410 (the dithering around black) have been fixed with a firmware update. Except for the green/pink split, which is a hardware issue.

The HP ZR24w has been removed in many places from HP's site.

Or, I can spend more money than the cheaper alternatives for an NEC PA241W.

This is much more annoying than most of my other buying decisions. I guess I'm used to flashes and film cameras, where the better stuff is old and cheap and used, not new and on the way out.