The screen was OK but a premium monitor at the time would have been an aperture grille Trinitron (or similar implementation). The iMac had a fairly dim shadow

The screen was OK but a premium monitor at the time would have been an aperture grille Trinitron (or similar implementation). The iMac had a fairly dim shadow mask display that shipped with most budget computers of the era. They were also one of the more common components to prematurely fail in iMacs.