TFT doesn't have a pricetag purely for the elite anymore. I'd say you *always* get a TFT screen, no matter how many hours you'll spend behind it.
My 17" TFT, from end 2002, was 800 euro .. you can get the same thing now for under 300 .. and ok, a 17" CRT costs about 130 orso, but still, for a monitor 300 is very doable. I remember my 19" Liyama vision master pro costed well over 500euro in summer '99.
oh ps, some 3 years ago I spent 650 euro on a chair .. I still don't regret it :P
My 17" TFT, from end 2002, was 800 euro .. you can get the same thing now for under 300 .. and ok, a 17" CRT costs about 130 orso, but still, for a monitor 300 is very doable. I remember my 19" Liyama vision master pro costed well over 500euro in summer '99.
oh ps, some 3 years ago I spent 650 euro on a chair .. I still don't regret it :P