I don't really know much about LCD screens, or how they've advanced, but the ones in our
school Library are fairly new, but to me, just don't have the same sharpness as a CRT monitor
(if those are Tube monitors, I don't know the technical terms either.) If it were me, I would
just upgrade to a nicer looking 19" Tube monitor, flatscreen/Trinitron - especially if you like
to play games, plus, if you have a nice graphics card, you can up the refresh rate to unbelieveable
speeds that I doubt you could do with an LCD.
My friend is using one, and it looks 1000x better than his laptop LCD screen, although, I
do love LCDs when playing MUDs or viewing webpages, makes fixed-width fonts look nice.