New Monitor Help

I'm a graphic designer and have the old acrylic 23" monitor. Looking at purchasing a new monitor and was looking at Apple's 30". Is this very good for graphic work or is there something better out there for around the same price?
Thanks for your help

Hi Tanya! I was in a similar situation as you and have decided (I am not sure if you are open to the idea) to grab two smaller screens. Although it is a smaller screen, another screen to consider (for graphic design) is the NEC LCD2470WNX (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=29847 79&CatId=12).
I know you were looking at the 30" and this is clearly isn't that large ... I just thought I'd suggest another alternative.

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Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me!
Recently I bought a new widescreen LG monitor L206WTQ - which I had plugged in and installed the drivers etc etc! The screen works fine.
I decided to open up my Adobe photoshop CS2 for the first time, to do some photoshopping (also to see what adobe would look like on my new monitor) ...and when I opened the my adobe, a error message popped up saying something like "your monitor 'LG monitor L206WTQ' is defected ... ..." - Now because I wasnt too sure what the message mean't, I just closed the message window and continued to work on adobe - which actually seemed to be running fine - only untill i relized that I could not get the true color WHITE on my color palete!
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Dale,
Photoshop is colour managed. This means when sending RGB to the monitor it uses a profile that describes the monitor's behaviour.
In order to display colours properly it has to change the RGB values sent to that specific monitor. The device profile is a set of offset values that is typical for that one monitor.
Your current profile probably belongs to your previous monitor. Recalibrate an profile your monitor.
Read this:
http://www.computer-darkroom.com
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Bought a new monitor.. wide screen 23"... Firefox is not filling the full window. IE works fine but I prefer Firefox. What do I need to do to fill entire window, not just the way it was with the old monitor? edit

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