Which monitor to get?

[mharvey65]

After my little adventure with various color calibration systems I am in the process of determining what the best monitor is to get. Sofar I have narrowed down the options to basically 2 brands, NEC or EIZO. Strangely the EIZO's are currently cheaper than the NEC which is not something I expected. I want a wide-gamut screen that has the possibility of hardware based calibration.

I think I am now down to choosing between either the 30" EIZO CG301W-BK or the 27" Eizo ColorGraphic CG275W-BK . Of these 2 the 30" appears to be a generation older than the 27" (actually many monitors seem a bit on the old technology side to me, as if I see the same models as 3 years ago when I bought the Cinema Display). Based on spec's I would opt for the 27" but I wonder if I would really miss the 10% of pixels (the 27" has 2560x1440 & the 30" has 2560x1600). It does seem I can turn the 27" to portrait mode which would make it helpful when working in this orientation.

Anyone any ideas on which monitor to get? Are there any other really good options that I am overlooking?

Quato?

<http://www.shitthatdoesstuff.com/2011/01/09/quato-better-than-eizo/>

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