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How cheap can monitors get? Right now you can go out and buy a 17- inch monitor for what a 15-incher cost last year. That makes me bet that 15-inch monitors will soon go the way of 14-inchers, and will be bought only by those on shoestring budgets.
This week Compaq announced its latest 17-inch model--the S700-- with a street price of $329. For perspective, the average cost of a PC World Top 10 15-incher last fall was a bit over $330. The average Top 10 17-inch monitor was going for about $750 at about the...