Long version: I am currently the (proud?) owner of 2 servicable asus 24s. Alas one of them is the annoying 5 year old model with the ring stand (which requires an act of gymnastics and duct tape to properly elevate and prop). Yesterday morning I said "there's nothing wrong with it but I wouldn't mind if it got broken and I had to replace it". Two hours later (we were re-arranging the office) I knocked over a lamp and managed to break it over my monitor... the good one that doesn't have the moronic stand. So now I have two asus 24s with something slightly wrong with them (one has stupid ring stand that makes it very unstable once I elevate it to ergonomic height, and one has a three inch black scratch and a 2mm white hole near the middle).

TLDR: 24 inch monitors slightly defective, should I replace them with 24s or 27s of this brand:

http://www.amazon.com/VS278Q-P-Ultra...sus+monitor+27

I'm just not sure that 27 inches is worth an extra $180. Anyone made this switch? If so are you using a 3rd party mount? I'd love to clamp mount my monitors and free up the desk space.


In other hardware news I finally upgraded to windows 7 ultimate so that I can use the extra 16 gb I got for xmas last year, which is great news for my rift team because ram was my chokepoint in that game.