I don't care much for LCD monitors, because they have three problems:
1. Resolution is fixed.
2. Colors change as the angle of view changes.
3. Cost more than CRT monitors.
Changing resolution may not matter to you, but it does to me. I usually set my CRT to 1280x1024 resolution, as a compromize between large screen are and large-enough text size. But sometimes I up the resolution to 1600x1200 when working with PageMaker and large-resolution photographs in PaintShop Pro. LCD screens can't do that.
LCD screens do a poor job of interpolating resolutions. The typical 17" LCD monitor displays at a resolution of 1280x1024. The only other resolution it can display cleanly is half-that: 640x512. All other resolutions, such as 1024x768, are interpolated, meaning the screen image looks fuzzy. CRTs don't have that problem.
One advantge of LCDs I've found to be not much of one: less desk space. The desks in my office are plenty deep. On the one desk with an LCD screen, junk piles up behind it. On my desk with the CRT, no junk.
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