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23 might do it - the one I have now has a measured screen size of 20" (Dell UltraSharp). It will go into the downtown office with the old Dell 8300 XP machine, which I am also looking to replace (tho I am not so adventurous/crazy/have enuff time) to build my own box...
Plug and Play.

I just priced up an i7-950 system
DVD Burner
WD Black 6GB/s 1TB Drive
ASUS 23" Monitor
Sapphire 1GB Radeon HD 5570 Video Card
Logictech Keyboard and Monitor
Card reader
6GB DDR 2000 (PC3 16000) RAM
ASrock X58 MB
Intel i7-950 3.06 GHz Processor (Quad Core)
Broadway Case & 600W Power Supply
Window 7 Home Premium x64 (Add $40 for Pro, drop $15 for the i7-930)

$1199.78 - Some Assembly required

Dell - Alienware Area 51
i7-930, 1TB Drive 3GB/s, 6GB DDR 1600, rest the same.
$2648, (Add Win Pro +$140!)

An AMD Phenom II X6 1055 version (Replace MB, CPU and RAM) can knock off about $250 to about $950. (5,168 vs 6,279 processor difference).
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