My friend used to run a 25" HDTV as a monitor. It was horrible, all the icons were so big and the res was so horrible. It wasn't such a problem for him as he also had a 24" Samsung monitor for usual computing duties, so if you dont plan to have a decent regular monitor, I'd recommend just buying a bigger monitor, 24" being a brilliant size for most. However, if you played video on it, you would be able to see where they money went, phenomenal quality.