I want a smaller monitor...

For years, I've always been a fan of monitors with a great Dot Pitch. Back when Sony Trinitron screens were "the best" you could get, you'd always find the pictures sharper than on just about any other brand. This was because they had a finer dot pitch.

(Another way of describing dot pitch is how many pixels (dots in groups of red, green and blue) are packed in per centimetre)

I love the resolution of my laptop screen. It is 1920 pixels wide by 1200 pixels high while still only being 17 inches diagonally.

The best dot pitch I've found in a mainstream computer monitor is in a 19 inch screen with a resolution of 1680 by 1050. However, that is still 27% larger dots than my laptop screen. Here is a comparison of my laptop screen to all the common "wide screen" (16:10 ratio) monitors available:

Panel size				Width		Height		Dot Pitch	% bigger dots than laptop
				cm	pixels	cm	pixels
17	"	43.18	cm	36.6	1920	22.9	1200	0.0191	0%
19	"	48.26	cm	40.9	1680	25.6	1050	0.0244	22%
15.6	"	39.624	cm	33.6	1366	21	768	0.0246	22%
30	"	76.2	cm	64.6	2560	40.4	1600	0.0252	24%
20.1	"	51.054	cm	43.3	1680	27.1	1050	0.0258	26%
23	"	58.42	cm	49.5	1920	31	1200	0.0258	26%
24	"	60.96	cm	51.7	1920	32.3	1200	0.0269	29%
22	"	55.88	cm	47.4	1680	29.6	1050	0.0282	32%
19	"	48.26	cm	40.9	1440	25.6	900	0.0284	33%
25.5	"	64.77	cm	54.9	1920	34.3	1200	0.0286	33%
28	"	71.12	cm	60.3	1920	37.7	1200	0.0314	39%

I would very much like to be able to get a desktop version (or 3) of my laptop's display, however, I fear the market for such a screen would be far too "nitch" to be populated.