The Return of the 1280x1024 Monitors... But With Touch!
iiyama has announced its 'new' 19" touch-enabled 1280 x 1024 monitor.
iiyama has announced a new monitor, and while it may look like a simple 19" monitor that was built many cycles ago, it actually isn't.
The monitor, which is to be known as the ProLite T1931SR-2, features a resolution of 1280 x 1024, and is LED backlit. It has a 5 ms response time, a contrast ratio of 900:1, stereo 1W speakers, and touch-sensitive input. The touchscreen uses resistive touch technology, meaning that unlike capacitive screens, you must give it a little push. Fortunately, that means that it does work with fingers, styluses, and bricks, though we wouldn't recommend using the last one.
iiyama has also certified the unit with IP54 dust and water protection. Clearly, this monitor is intended for industrial applications.
The unit comes with a three year manufacturer warranty, and costs a disturbing 109,800 yen, translating to about $1131 USD -- sounds about right for a museum piece. You'll even be able to buy one in the old-school white color.

There are plenty of 19"1280x1024 touch monitors and most of them cost less than $1100.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007721%20600012660%20600012169&IsNodeId=1&name=19%22%20-%2024%22
These are mostly use for POS and they're not multi-touch.
But that price is just absurd, I don't expect many will sell/
the price...
"iiyama has also certified the unit with IP54 dust and water protection. Clearly, this monitor is intended for industrial applications."
The newegg POS ones don't do this, the suggestion for an AIO doesn't do this. These are not a desktop monitor, so why everyone is comparing them to a desktop PC seems to show the lack of attention span of most people on articles. Read a sentence, jump to comments.
Anyway...
1280x1024 screens NEVER stopped be made even with the 16:9 frenzy.
A++S , A++r and a bunch of companies make them...many of them are 17" or 19" , 5ms, LED , DVI-D + VGA , build-in speakers (not that i want to use any kind of build-in speakers)...and they cost 100-150 bucks.
Granted, no touch screen but since when i want to fill my screen with fingerprints ?
As you might noticed , i have a thing about these screens....yeah, it's the ONLY type of PC monitors i use and i will NEVER use 16:9....5:4 is much better for reading/writing long columns of text , they are also better when you are closer to screen, and screens occupy less space in the desktop.
This is why they are the favorite size used in offices or majority professional applications....but even for games, i prefer them because less pixels = more FPS....