I have this monitor, too. Its awesome. It supports portrait, but I've never done it personally.

Many games don't support widescreen resolutions, but this is not a problem because you can still run the game in 1600x1200 and have black bars on the left and right sides of the image. New games will almost certainly support widescreen.

LCDs only have one native resolution, as I'm sure you know, so you'll need a video card that can do at least 1600x1200 with the new games. I had to upgrade my video card when I got this monitor because playing games at a lower than native resolution defeats the whole purpose.

I was able to negotiate the price of the 2405FPW to $820 by calling and BSing with my sales rep. Today would be the day to order it, by the way, since tomorrow is the last day of their fiscal quarter.

The 2001FP is pretty much the same monitor in a non-widescreen.

Go for the widescreen! Skip the dual CPUs since most home applications don't make good use of them anyhow, from what I understand. Spend the extra money on a great video card and the 2405.

Jim