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In a store full of big-screen TVs, laptops, tablets and every species of shining rectangle, one device emits a reality-distortion field like no other: the iMac. The display is just.. perfect. After seeing the iMac 2 years ago, I switched to e-IPS (Dell 2209WA, then the Dell U2312HM), but somehow they're not in the same league. Way better than TN LCDs, of course, but not iMac/Cinema display. Is e-IPS that much worse than IPS? Perhaps it's Apple's calibration which does the trick? I don't know.

I would love to find a cheap monitor which used the same panel as the iMac and had similar image quality. Any pointers?