Need some monitor advice.
My wife needs a second 24" IPS monitor. She already has an HP LP2475w which is selling for about $430 from amazon vendors and $499 from newegg, but the Dell U2410 looks pretty nice too. The Dell is $499 ($100 off retail $599 at dell.com) but other than having a memory card reader and having an advertised "factory calibration" that is better than the usual totally fubar colors you get with uncalibrated IPS, I don't see any difference.
Since we already have one of the HP monitors I'm leaning towards another HP especially since it is a bit cheaper from amazon, but I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with either these or another suitable monitor that might tip the scales one way or another, or lead to a different monitor entirely. I'd like to keep the 24" monitor size and 1920x1200 resolution so images scale the same regardless of which monitor they're on.
And yes, we do need an IPS monitor. She'll be doing medical work and the alternative to a reasonably well calibrated consumer IPS monitor is a $15,000 (minimum!) hospital grade unit, with the main differences being the hospital grade one is guaranteed to not have EMI issues with medical equipment and some of the hospital ones have insanely high pixel resolutions that we don't need because the software allows for zooming. We're not working in a hospital, so the EMI specs are meaningless. Only image quality matters (having sufficient grayscale color contrast is more important than actual color fidelity so even a mediocre calibration is ok) and a decent consumer IPS panel is good enough at a fraction of the cost. The main requirement is that the monitor must correctly display enough colors (grayscales) to show all of the detail present in the image, and that isn't hard to get with almost any IPS panel.
