NEC EA261WM-BK 26 inch LCD 1920 x 1200 400 cd/m2 DVI/USB Hub black Cabinet Monitor

This is a commercial grade heavy duty monitor. Makes the current line of LCDs from other companies like Samsung look and feel like cheap toys in comparison. It is a dying breed of 16:10 aspect monitors which give you an extra inch on the bottom of the screen for the task bar without eating into your prime 1080P real estate. Also has REAL buttons, speakers and an adjustable stand that rotates! Unfortunately they rarely make them like this anymore. Can't say enough good things about this NEC, it even arrived in 1 day and I did not pay for next day shipping. A very nice surprise!

My old setup was 2 Dell 17" Flat Panel monitors (1702FP). One died so I replaced it with this NEC EA261WM-BK 26" inch monitor. Wow, what an improvement!!
This new monitor is very bright, and huge!!.

I considered the Dell UltraSharp monitors but they were too expensive.

I use the monitor primarily for home use (MS Office, Web Browsing, some Photo editing), so I can't comment on how this works for pro photo editing.

The monitor build quality is great.

This is an amazing monitor. The picture is the best that I have ever seen (although I don't see this level of quality at most stores), and the weighted stand adjusts smoothly in all planes. At 26 inches, some may think that it's too large, but going back to a 20" monitor is near painful. I could have gotten a monitor for half the price, but after using this, I would never be satisfied with a cheap one. The monitor came way too bright, and took some playing to get it right (you can turn down the LED intnsity and the Brightnss Control). No pixel problems.