Can macs use pc monitors?

I don't know where to ask this newbie question but I couldn't find the answer in the site. I am considering switching to mac but I recently got a nice flatscreen monitor for my PC and mac monitors are seemingly really expensive..
I imagine you can't use a pc monitor with one, but... can you?
I guess it's a deal breaker for me, costs too much if I have to buy a monitor too...

An interesting point of view.
When spinning this further, buying a Mac means buying two computers... a "Mac OS-based PC" and a "Windows-based PC" (e.g. BootCamp for installing Windows).
But it comes even better when considering that the Mac can also run old Commodore Amiga software (using "MagiCMac X") and DOS derivates (using VirtualPC or other virtualization software); confessed both are software emulations and not really hardware-based. But possible. I get a headache when thinking of giving such computers a name
And it is much more complex finally, when thinking of the other alternative operating systems like Unix... sure, also OS X is based on Unix, but I guess that you can't simply put systems like Solaris and SuSe into the same category as OS X, since they serve quite different markets.
So maybe the classifcation "IBM-compatible PC" and "Mac" are really no longer matching to today's computers. Anyway, I refuse to state my Mac being nothing else than an "expensive PC", but perhaps this would be the right naming convention

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