What 3rd party monitor works best with Macbook Pro?

I am trying to find a good inexpensive monitor that will work with my Macbook Pro and my work laptop.  I bought a viewsonic before I found out that they don't support MacOSX with their driver.  The aspect ratio was never correct, it went straight to 4:3, and i couldn't fix it.  Has anyone used an AOS monitor?

using a mini port adapter to VGA, with the VGA cable supplied by viewsonic.  I haven't tried different cable or adapter yet.  I am trying to use the external monitor with my macbook in clamshell mode (getting old eyes).  When I originally set it up the macbook immediately went to 4:3 on the internal monitor, and detected the VS monitor.  I tweaked the resolution manually and got the aspect ratio to fit into the full monitor screen, but it was stretched and the resolution had to be set way down in order to get full coverage.  With the 1920x1080 res the image was only "active" on the right 3/4 of the monitor, and even after I moved the image to the left it stayed in 4:3 and was offset to the right.  I saw something about a screen spanner doctor (?) fo rthe macbook.  WOuld that help?

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