External Display for iBook

I'm thinking about purchasing a 19" lcd monitor for use with my 12" iBook. I need something that makes photo editing easier. I'm looking at either a Viewsonic VA1930WM or a Samsung 906BW. Does anyone any experience with either of these monitors or another monitor that they would recommend? Thanks.

I would like to add that even with the hack mentioned before the iBook has limited external display resolutions.
Using resolutions above 1600 pixels wide may cause slowdowns. One limiting factor is the display adapters amount of memory. For me that is 32MB.
You may also notice some anomalities when sleeping and waking the iBook. These include for example: Missing the mouse cursor until it has passed from display to another (or duplicate pointers). Some coloured zebra style stripes over some windows until they are refreshed. X11-windows that open up too wide to fit on one screen. Windows or requesters that have moved outside the screen area showing only one pixel width on current screen.
I guess most of these problems are just plain normal operation and have nothing to do with the hack, but I might be wrong and these anomalities might not happen on higher end models, that offer the external displays that are not mirrored.
Otherwise the iBook handles external displays very nicely and OS X really supports multiple displays well.
Notice that in the Preferences -> Displays -> (Order?) you can drag the menubar to another screen, if you want to make that screen the primary display.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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