You may be crazy, Dave, but not because you want a bigger monitor.

I got a dell 30" for exactly the same reason and it is great. It's hard to appreciate the quality of a high mp picture with a dinky 2 mp 24" monitor. The high resolution of the 30" makes it much nicer for viewing pictures.

If I were considering the monitor now, I *might* wait for a one with very high dot pitch (like the "retina" display).

Jon.