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Cainehill said:
Even here on Shrapnel's forums, the portrait orientation allows me to see / read more of the text onscreen at one time. If you don't think seeing more at once is better - try resizing your browser to half height, and look at how little you can see at a time. Fact is that most "modern" websites waste horizontal space, since they have a maximum amount of text they'll display in a given line. It's even more obvious / pertinent with sites like the new york times.
And viewing PDF files or documents : with the vertical orientation, I can view a full page at 100% zoom. If the monitor is horizontal, again : lots of space wasted on the sides, while I can't view an entire page at once.
Heh. Flipping a CRT monitor on its side isn't very practical, not when the monitor weighs 60+ pounds, has curved sides and the like. Not only inconvenient when you may switch back and forth several times a day, but almost certainly bad for the monitor's longevity. 
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I guess that for me, this little feature can't be compared to all the advantages CRT monitors have over LCD monitors.
So an LCD monitore might be a better optino if you really use this option, which means they are better for office work (especially since they look good and impress important buisnessman visitors =P), but for a gamer, I still don't think and LCD is a better option.
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Cainehill said:And, another virtual of LCD monitors : a lot easier to fit several of them into a limited amount of space. My 19" CRT takes, mmm, 19" horizontal and 21 or 22" depth-wise - and it's a so-called "short-neck" design. The 19" LCD, even in "normal" landscape mode, is 15" wide (12" in portrait mode) and requires only about 7" depth.
I can support 3 monitors with my current graphics setup - but certainly can't fit 3 CRT monitors in my workspace.
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The only thing that matters in this case is width (after all, its rather pointless putting monitors behind each other), and the width difference is rather marginal between different monitor types.
If I could fit two LCD monitors, I could fit two CRT monitors. (which I can't, because I rather like having speakers =P)
And I can support 3 monitors as well, though I'll need 1 that connects via S-Video, 1 that connect via DVI and 1 that connects via VGA(I think that's how the connection is called) =P
Well, actually I have a VGA to DVI converter, so I could do with 2 VGAs.
In any case I hardly have a reason to use more than one monitor...