My favorite monitor was the Apple Multiple Scan 17 Display. It was old when we got it but it lasted for a long time and had a great picture. Sometimes we could convince it to do 1280x1024, but most of the time it would have the bottom part of the screen fold onto the top at that resolution. It lasted us a good 5 years and went with an older PPC unit I sold years ago. Probably one of the best monitors I've ever used.