5 22″ LCD monitors reviewed
There’s a huge price difference between 22″ LCD monitors and 24″ LCD monitors, so Information Week reviews 5 of the more affordable 22″ monitors - Dell E228WFP, NEC MultiSync LCD225WXM, Planar PX2210MW, Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW, and Viewsonic VG2230wm. There’s a chart comparing features of each, and it’s obvious that the price varies depending on the level of the contrast ratio that you want, and at $269 Dell’s 22″ model delivers approximately the best bang for the buck.
At work and at home I have identical Dell 24″ monitors, but I think a switch back to 22″ would not be that big of the deal - most of the time a sidebar from Google Desktop or Trillian is taking spare two or three inches anyway. At Facebook 30″ monitors recently became a standard issue, and I had an offer to have mine replaced, but, alas, it looks like my Thinkpad T34 does not support the awesome resolution that a 30-incher offers. Plus, even now most of my applications never run maximized, and I usually stick to 1000-pixelish width anyway, so the productivity gains for me would be questionable.