I went out and bought a new monitor, a Acer 22″ Widescreen LCD ( AL2216W ). Its a pretty nice monitor. Seems to be about 1.5 times bigger then my 17″. I know you all want to know the specifications 😉

1680 x 1050 Resolution
700:1 Contract Ratio
5ms Response Time
DVI-D (HDCP)

So I didn’t have a chance to compare it at the stores, because BestBuy didn’t even have a display setup. But its so much nicer then my old monitor. The hardest thing is getting use to the widescreen, this is the first time I have used a widescreen for my desktop. So I would recommend this monitor for 169.99