Well I did have an ok monitor but i replaced it because the edges sometimes went blurry and it irritated me.. so i suppose that doesnt help.. but a monitor is something you can keep for a looong time, A very nice flat screen (not LCD just not a goldfish bowl) monitor 17" costs about 170$ now, bit pricey but really really nice once you are using it. I dont actually know what happened to the old monitor that sometimes went blurry, if you are interested I can look around for it.. but i "think" it got turfed.