The Acer AL1916W is a cracking monitor for the price... the only downside on the 19" widescreens is the depth is less than a standard 17" or 19" tft. If you can afford the 20" widescreen monitors i`d go with them, and pixel mapping is handy also... ie if you need to run a non widescreen resolution, the monitor will display such, and not stretch it across to fill the screen (borders to the left and right).