Best 23/24 Monitor for Dual Displays (Samsung,LG,...)

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You can trust all of those brands. I have personall returned acer monitors before without any issues.

scaz, what you mean by personal returned acer monitors?

Dotard, Its great that you understand what I mean about those nice thin edges. This monitor is just one of the few ones I could find that has thin edges on all sides.
Since you have this monitor, can I ask few questions, as I'm considering buying it.
-Are you happy with it? (really happy or just satisfied)
-Is the resolution fine? and isn't it weird and is it handled well by the graphic card?
-Does it swivel 90 degrees so that you can put 2 x 90 degree rotated ones and make a nearly square?

Would appreciate if you can give me an answer to the questions...

Any more help/suggestion is still more than welcome and really appreciated...

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Acer is a great company so is the others I've suggested to clients for their builds and they have not been disappointed.

Hey sina

- Okay first of all I don't think you should be worrying about the height/width of the monitor. (23 in = 58.4 cm) This is the measurement a corner to the opposite diagonal corner. Yes it is true that wide screen is...wide. A 23 inch is closer to a regular 19' monitor (nonwide) height wise. But 16:9 which is the ratio of the width:height is the new stantard and all monitors being made are going to be wide like that.

-Another thing I wanted to mention is that swiviling in my case was never really used. I don't think it's nesscessary or even a deciding factor. 99 times out of a 100, the landscape position will do. (also because the screen is already quite big you don't have to worry about it's height)

-I love having two monitors, especially for the purposes you mention in your post.;
--As a programming it is really nice to have more than one file open at the same time. It makes referencing between files a lot easier.
--For movies it's really nice to have at least 1 wide screen monitor to play the movies on,while the other can be used for email or w/e you are doing on the side. People don't usually (well at least i don't) watch the movie across two screens. If you're going to just use one monitor to watch you can always turn off the other monitor in the mean time.
--For gaming (and movies) a really nice benefit of two monitors is that you can have things like a messenger, webpage, widgets, etc open on the second monitor. This saves you the hassel of having to minimize what you are doing to check to see if you got a new message or something of the sort.
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But the bottom line is it comes down to personal preference. You can survive on one monitor and still be able to do what you want, and save cash. Or you can splurge a bit, and have two monitors. I think it does add productivity, capability, and aesthetic to the computer area.

I've read that other people are on good terms with dell, ( i have a 19 inch of the regular ratio 4:3), but this comp that i'm currently has two widescreens that are from samsung. They have worked great so far. So I a bit bias towards the 2343bwx

Hopefully this will help.