23" CFL Apple Cinema Display or 24" LED Cinema Display?

The 24" has some great advantages: LED backlighting (no dimming over time!), speakers, power for a MacBook Pro, a built-in iSight camera.
The big advantage of the 23" display: the matte display. The big disadvantage: it's a significant source of heat, noticeable in the Austin, TX summers.
I'm not a graphics professional, but I worry about the reflections on the 24" Cinema Display. To make matters worse, I have a window directly behind me and my office isn't really reconfigurable.
Am I really better off with the 23" Cinema display?

Unless you really need only the features of one of them. *get both* so you have the right tool for the job. When you need the other's advantage, the changeover is simple.
Of course, if you only need one feature set, buy that one.
If you are concerned about dimming over time, you can buy another 23 if it becomes necessary.
My five-year-old 20 inch LCD is still doing fine and it runs every day (although I have set it to sleep it when it is not used for longer than 3 minutes.) It has dimmed a bit, but certainly not to the point that I ever need to run its brightness anywhere near maximum.
Moreover, in another five years, you may have moved on to the boss's office and the worries will be different!
G5 DP 1.8GHz w/Mac OS X (10.5.7) PowerBook 1.67GHz (10.4.11)   iBookSE 366MHz (10.3.9)  External iSight

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  • Apple Cinema Displays & 2007 MacBooks

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    <http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9321G/B?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ&mco=MjE0NTg3Nw>
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  • 21" Apple Cinema Display

    I've got an 21" Apple Cinema Display (16x10), that I bought sometime at the beginning of 2000.
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  • Horizontal lines on Apple Cinema display

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