I've just plashed out for a 24" monitor to replace my 19" crt one, Running at it's native res of 1900*1200 using XP it's a case of squinting to read things on the desk top and in apps, constantly having tp use the mouse wheel. In windows 7, with the text size set to 125%, it's brilliant and everything resizes it's self for "best fit".
Must explore those foums as I'm having troubles with Firefox and IE crashing especially when switching to the IE tab in FF, but only on some sites.
Over all I too am impressed, lets hope that the shrinkwrapped version isn't too tarted up.