I've been researching on the 'net for hardware purchases and ran into this very good article "
An Autopsy of Dead LCD Pixels" over on Toms Hardware. If you're interested in buying a LCD monitor it's very enlighting how different the policies are between manufacturers. Bottom line is that I quickly narrowed the list of manufactures I would buy from to QDI, Viewsonic, Sony, Eizo, NEC, Formac, Hyundai, Solarism, Iiyama, Hercules, HP, Belinea and LiteOn. Of that list the Iiyama 4332 and the Eizo L565 seem to be the best 17" LCD monitors out there at the moment.