Help! Need the one-sentence summary? The mark of a well-designed monitor is a reasonably flat screen that is consistent, has good brightness and color purity, and has all of these qualities extending to the screen edges.

2torial #0678: Learn2 Shop For a Computer Monitor (continued) Understand image brightness   When you buy a monitor, it should be capable of producing as bright a picture as possible when it's new. As any monitor ages, it loses some of its brightness, so you want to start with as much brightness as possible. Unfortunately, manufacturers don't usually provide a quantified figure with which you can compare models, so you're pretty much left to your own judgment. One thing to look for is a monitor that's bright at the edges as well as in the center of the screen. And if you're comparing monitors side by side, make sure their brightness controls are roughly the same; if one monitor is set radically different than the other one, you can't make a fair comparison. Step 3