Paying >200 for a 23" monitor without usb ports or anything is kinda dumb IMO ...

I personally prefer Samsung monitors, something in the same pricerange would be something like this ($199) which admittedly has 50k:1 ratio instead of 100k:1 ratio, BUT it has HDTV tuner, so when you go to college you can literally use it as an HDTV, which is the nicest feature of a monitor. honestly i can't tell the difference between 50 and 100:1 ratio when i see them side-by-side, so to me it's an all-around better choice

Plus it's an inch bigger, and a Samsung dunno.gif