LCD Telly or LCD Monitor

[Zhaoman]

Yeah I was surprized by how well ambilight worked, there's a noticable difference in viewing comfort when you switch it off: I can't imagine a TV without ambilight now!

[Pob255]

Personally I'd go for a monitor rather than a tv, for the higher resolution (not total pixel count but pixel per inch count) for a tv it's fine over the other side of the room but right infront of your face a monitor is better.
Don't go for that 20.1inch that's just too high, a single pixel line (such as encountered when modeling) is going to be lost.

On Dell, it depends, differnt models and systems can vary, eg we've had 2 batches of dell laptops at work, one has been fine the other has had to have every screen replaced and about 4 motherboards. while the warranty and after sales is good you do pay quite a bit for it.
On there monitors there high end ones do have a very good reptuation but are not exactly cheap, not massively expensive, but about that same as other brands high end ones.

And I think that's my general word of warning, most makes have cheap models and expensive quality models and reliability can effect both.
I got my girl friend a high end view sonic vp201b, was great untill it died, got a swapout on warranty, that also died, so they replaced it for a vp2030b, turned out that the vp201 was beset by failiers, the vp2030 isn't.
So do research.

Also might want to consider poping into pcworld or simular, not to buy but to see monitors in the flesh so to speak