if I hadn't just given up food for the next 2 months for that envision deal a few weeks back, I would seriously consider this because I used my mom's 17" samsung over the weekend and I think the text is a lot crisper on the samsung, plus I was at compusa looking at that 24" widescreen samsung and it had a gorgeous display, best I have ever seen from an lcd, I think you can't go wrong with a samsung lcd for this price, my mom's is about 2 years old now and doesn't have dvi either, I played the current trendy games 2 years ago on it and didn't really notice ghosting with it's 25ms display, I'm sure the 12 will handle anything anyone throws at it.