1680x1050?!? For that much money, it'd have to be 1900x1200 to *maybe* sway my interest.

I guess "gorgeous" is relative. To me it looks a bit eclectic and undefined. Not really streamlined and elegant, just different design ideas tacked on to each other like a Katamari ball.

Did anyone else notice the amount of glare that thing has?

So... Take an LCD, cut off the bezel, attach a large sheet of glass, throw four speakers on there for $1200? hhhhmmm.. Yeah, the only thing I find impressive about it would have to be the price.

Funny, my 22" Dell was around $300. So I could buy 4 of those puppies for this glass catastrophe.

its nice but they could have had done a better job like making the speaker wiring real small to look almost invisible, my guess is that they release this thing in a desperate measure to compete with what ever apple releases next week, but the wiring embedded in the glass looks kind of old this is 2008 not 1988, my opinion, look like and old store glass with the alarm wiring on

Definitely a love it or hate it design.

@snitch29: Err, it's part of the design to have the wiring showing, but yes, it does have a sort of 1980's everything-clear feel to it.

If it was 24" or bigger with 1920x1200 or better, it might be worth it, but with a giant bezel and (I'm guessing) Dell-quality speakers, it isn't worth it. They make terrific displays, but not at that price.

@TNTBW: I think there is enough for it to qualify as a Mirror. You could shave by that thing.

it's be great if it didn't have those speakers (likely not the best) on there.

It's like looking at art. But the glass would probably drive me nuts from the glare. The backlit Dell logo was a nice touch though.

a 17" macbook pro has as much pixels, 1680x1050
speak of low pixel density on this thing.

but got to to admit, well designed

The speakers ruin it for me.
They were a bad idea.

Speakers are a bad start, the black border kills any "flow" the form has. The end result is a really superfluous design that just doesn't add any value in my eyes - especially not at that cost.

It's nice that Dell are looking into further their design aesthetic, lets just hope it gets refined a bit more, they get a style book penned and / or the ID's stop smoking that crack.

my 15.4" dell inspiron laptop has better resolution (1600x1200)! Come on, dell, is your market research really telling you that this is what people want?!? Less resolution and more glare, oh goody...

@TNTBW: That was the first thing I noticed. Really annoying, especially for that price.

I often wondered where they got the data for the market research. When the XPS line was starting up many of us has campaigned for a gaming system for years with no response. Then they pushed out the XPS line. I think they conferred with people who played mine sweeper and solitaire and considerd them gamers... Might be the same people they asked for the Crystal .

Those idiot Apple fanboys will buy any overpriced crap Sir Steve tells them to buy. What a bunch of robots. Only an idiot Apple fanboy would even think this was a good idea. Keep drinking the kool-aid, kids.

Oh, wait, this is Dell? Nevermind. It's a GREAT idea. I love it. I'm going out to buy one right now.

I always associate Crystal with someone longing to get out of the trailer park.

I prefer non-glossy lcd monitors. Yes the colors look more vivid but at the expensive of good qualities such as true color representation and no glare. But it is probably that stupid glass piece on the front which is causing all the glare. I guess dell was thinking that when your looking at porn that you can see if anyone is comming in to the room by the glare on the screen.

Oh and adaptation of speakers looks like donkey doo.

Does the monitor tilt?