The bigger problem is COLOR TEMPERATURE (Score 1)

Glossy or matte is just part of the problem. The bigger problem that actually hurts eyes is increasing color temperatures of both colors and the backlights. Effectively this leads all colors to appear more blue. Our brain perceives it as much brighter and from a distance we think the display with more bluish temperature looks a lot brigher. Now an older display with yelowish or reddish tint will look "old" right next to the new bluish one. The problem is - when you sit infront of a screen with bluish colors - a lot of the times it hurts eyes because this is not quite the same as daylight that we are used to. You can go into graphics properties, adjust color temperature (or decrease gamma/brightness/contrast for blue) and see the difference. The colors will not be as good. If your TFT panel is a "thin-film" type you will also get different color reproduction in the vertical axis, but it will be much easier on eyes. You can also download a program called PowerStrip (free evaluation), run it with any new laptop, assume whatever the default is at 6500K and lower color temperature to be 5200-5600K - you will find that your eyes don't hurt as much. ---- Regarding the colors on the stand-alone LCD monitors - you have to make sure that LCD/TFT you get is IPS or PVA. They have the same colors across the vertical viewing angle. Thin-Film (TF) doesnt. DELL 2405 and 2407 are good ones. Dell 247 is not. FRY's doesn't sell any non-TF monitors. Best Buy only has 3 PVA monitors and most others regular TF. It just happens that TF technology is a lot cheaper to manufacture. As such people who notice the problem - suffer. Some people who don't have to sit in front of the monitor for 4+ hours straight would never notice.