Looking around it seems that it's all LCD monitors these days. I'd agree with Stilly River Sage - get an LCD monitor if you can.

My computer is getting a bit long in the tooth now, but when the monitor died on me a couple of years ago, I replaced it with a 15 inch LCD, and it purrs along just fine, especially since I put in Windows XP (which the shop said it probably wouldn't work properly with my old AMD 500MHz processor, but a friend knew better, and he was right. But then he wasn't trying to sell me a new machine).