Quote Originally Posted by Tran
I have a question, isn't CRT monitor quite notorious for its high amount of radiation? Especially to eyes.
I mean, when compared with the flat-screen like LCD monitor, the latest usually emit very little to none radiation, and therefore more healthy for the user.

@sapi: (in my opinion) No, I'll invest the money for something else
Our physics teacher once said that the electronic parts in a TV/CRT make more radiation than switching it on produces additionally, which means when you turn it on, the amount of radiation isn't even doubled. Unfortunately, my old physics teacher is the only source I have.
A TFT on the other hand would then radiate all the time at around the same level because it shouldn't radiate more when you turn it on.
The damage any monitor does to your eyes is the same that a book does, your eyes are always focused at the same distance, to avoid that, you can for example make a pause now and then and look out of the window or so, ideal would be(according to the same teacher, unfortunately ) 15 minutes every hour. And according to something I saw on TV, avoid bad contrasts, reading books in the dark is very bad, make sure you have enough light.

On the topic of 2 monitors, it all depends, games on 2 monitors can be quite bad because the middle of the screen will be the monitor joint, unless the game has some sort of optimization or runs only on one like usual(which it will by default). To avoid that, one can get the Triple Head 2 Go which supports 3 monitors(seems to be supported by Armed Assault). Now that TFTs are rather cheap, I could think about another 17", but I think it's still not worth the money.