I've tried changing font sizes for desktop, but the size stepup from what I use is too big. For internet browsing, either the page doesn't use the larger font I tell it to or it's just not compact enough when it does work. I'm using Explorer by the way. I use Firefox at school on Linux systems and hate them. Seems like most sites aren't designed with it, thus texts are too small and colours washout. When changing text size (it works for every page which is nice), things start looking screwy. So when it all goes down, I'm looking for a 'natural' dot pitch that is slightly larger that will be compact and easily legible. Oh, my eyes suck too if you're wondering.
Anyways, been looking at my choices again. I'm somewhat tempted to splurge on a 24". No way I can run games at the native res., but I'm sure it will scale to 16:9 resolutions alright (researching that actually) or scale 1:1. That and for every hour I spend gaming, I probably spend two or three on the desktop at native.