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Would this be a good start as an entry level monitor for someone like me who isn't on the pro level yet?
NEC EA232WMI-BK 23" Eco-Friendly Widescreen EA232WMI-BK B&H
Looks like a good entry level display. Yes IPS is the panel tech to go for if you're into photography. But not for gamers. I get motion sick with my screen due to slow refresh rate.
Also I have been told that the NEC and the Dell use the same panel.
True. 100% identical panel, but don't forget the panels are only one small layer of the screen. The anti-glare on monitors with the same panels may be quite different, as is the resulting quality. A lot of a monitor's quality comes from it's driver circuitry. As mentioned before in this case you'd be weighing up a driver with a colour lookup table vs one without.
Anyway I'm interested in the result. Bit of a risk going for the Samsung. It's a Plane-to-Line Switching display. This stuff is very new and unproven, similar to IPS, but PLS is Samsung's way of attempting to not licence patents from LG or NEC.