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| July 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Call it the incredible shrinking work space. Over the past few years, bulkier monitors have all but overrun the tops of our desks. Their screens, filled nearly to overflowing with all the icons, web pages, and digital photographs we've crammed onto them, haven't fared much better. Plain and simple, computer users need more real estate--on both their screens and their desks.

A remedy for both shortages exists in the form of a 21-inch flat-panel monitor made from a thin liquid-crystal display (LCD) similar to those used in laptops. But a flat-panel that large comes with a price tag in the thousands. What are realistic options if your budget is in the hundreds?

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