I created a mockup of the 2407 and the 3007 too, and yes the 3007 looked huge! You can stare at a mockup all day, but in the end you have to see the real thing up close and personal to get a feel for it. This was my first LCD, so believe me I was more than alittle leary about dropping $1400 on...
I just got off the phone with Dell regarding the latest price drop and they gave me another $100 off since I bought the thing 4 days ago. Some is better than none I guess.
I found this on Dell's site concerning their price matching policy...
Well in my case I can tell you that the fans are not masking any type of buzzing. My tower is tucked away so I hear very little noise from it at all and the monitor is three feet from me.
I understand your problem, when you spend that amount of cash on a monitor you want it as close to...
I got mine on wednesday - no dead pixels, not backlight bleeding and no buzzing. Mind you I can only run it at 1280x800 since I have an AGP 6800GT single link but that will change next month.