The smaller holes allow greater resolution, or crispness of image, than with conventional monitors.

The physical grid of L.C.D.'s means that they can display images at only a single resolution, unlike conventional monitors.

The entire computer takes up less than 10 inches of desk space from front to back, half the space of a conventional 17-inch monitor.

Both can function as conventional monitors.

Of course, no DNA computer produces its results on a conventional monitor.

But the resolution, 800 by 600 pixels, is closer to what you might find on a 15-inch conventional monitor.

A 15-inch flat panel offers the same screen size as a 17-inch conventional monitor.

If you look closely at lines of text on a conventional monitor, they appear to sag in the middle.

It weighs less than six pounds and, like other flat panels, occupies less desk space than conventional monitors.

A 19-inch short-neck monitor has a bigger viewable area, but the same depth, as a conventional 17-inch monitor.