I bought a brand new 23″ Samsung 2333SW LCD display from dabs4work.ie last week and it only cost me €165 ex VAT (€200 incl). It runs at a max resolution of 1920 x 1080 which is full HD to the informed buyer and offers the basic DVI and VGA connections.
There was one big problem when I plugged in my “Pavillion dv9000t” laptop with “Nvidia Geforce 7600 Go” graphics card over a standard VGA cable…the bloody computer wouldn’t display the max resolution! All I could get was a distorted looking 1680 x 1050 resolution with everything looking stretched and faded.
I plugged the display into my Dell XPS 1350 laptop running vista and it worked straight off. This was a software issue, I knew in my heart it could be worked around…
After a lot of googling I sniffed the solution could be in switching to using the HDMI-out port of my laptop rather than the VGA-out port. Apparently Windows XP has not got the correct registry keys to support full HD over VGA. Now you might have a low-powered laptop on XP and you might only have a VGA-out, in that case you would have been screwed in my opinion…but I concede that it may only apply to this particular graphics card (for which I did update to latest drivers).
Fortunately for me my hunch was correct, I sourced a HDMI to DVI cable that I had lying around in the office and hey presto it worked without touching a single setting.
So there you go, problem fixed 
Now as for reviewing the display, well its far and away the best in the range and it murders the competition on price/performance ratio. I’ve now got a whole lot of screen real estate on my desk, 2.1 million pixels on the Samsung and 1.3 million pixels on the laptop. My old dual monitor went up in a loud bang and puff of smoke last week by the way, it was a fujitsu siemens tft I think and fairly old.
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