I’ve been trying to make up my mind for a while now on whether or not it’s reasonable to buy another 22″ LCD, to bring one of them into work. At home I have the Mac’s internal LCD (1440×900), plus my 1920×1080 external LCD. At work, though, we have a slew of 17″ LCDs, but 1280×1024 isn’t quite the same as 1920×1080.

Best Buy had a decent deal, though I’m not sure I ever want to try ordering from Best Buy again after my last experience. I went to Newegg to try to price-check, but Newegg didn’t have the LCD I saw at Best Buy. But it turns out they have something even better: the Acer X233Hbid, a 23″ LCD with full 1920×1080 resolution, for a mere $190, shipping included. It’s sort of an ugly color, but that’s the only criticism I can think of. VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs. Slick. Really slick.

Working at a startup, and living in a cratered economy, I’d put the odds of my work reimbursing me for the monitor at about 0.25%. (Plus, none of the other developers, with much more experience and seniority, have huge LCDs.) But how weird is it to buy yourself equipment for work? If anyone out there is itching for a nice monitor, though, I think this is an excellent buy.

So is this notebook hard drive, incidentally, though I think I posted about it before. 320GB SATA II notebook drive, 7200RPM, 16MB cache. $70 shipped, $20 rebate after that.