New or Old Monitor?

[cornfedgrowth]

Hey everyone! I'm in the market for a new Mac. finally. Unfortuanatly, my budget is completly full. I've been pricing out my system with the Current 17" LCD for 599 with student discount. After the rumors today, i noticed that the 20" is supposed to be 999... I can't afford another 500 bucks for another monitor. So my question is: would you buy the current apple 17" dispaly? Spend 600 on a different monitor? or fork over the extra 400 bucks?

Thanks for your input!
-Alex

 

[Sun Baked]

Check out some other brands of monitors, no reason to stick with an Apple monitor if it's not in your budget.

 

[furrina]

Can anyone speculate about how much you think they are going to be selling the old versions (20") for when the new ones come out?