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rudy
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There are many reason Dell and HP might charge alot more. 1 they mostly sell to professionals so they need to make sure and guaranty color is to spec. Second most of them now have pretty liberal return policies and surely they eat the cost on a lot of panels with dead pixels. 3 they actually have to pay tarriffs, at least in the USA most of these ebay sellers are leaving that to the customer who never pays. When you sell a really low flow, high priced product, its often just not worth your time unless you can make a tidy profit. This is why cost seems to go up exponentially with items instead of linearly. Why does a GTX 580 cost $100 more than a 480? etc.. Remember they also sell to far less savvy tech users, so for them these higher end panels need to come loaded with all the automation, scalars, inputs, outputs and all so customers dont say why cant my monitor do some whacky resolution. Its like buying a caddilac and not getting leather you know. Most people who can afford to step out of 60 hz tn panels are not going to want to deal with all the compromises. So the end result is all those factors come together and ya I can easily see the price going to triple.
You might be thinking who cares about all that stuff, but trust me, anyone in this thread is probably pretty tech and LCD savvy. I know of a professor at U of M and he has the dell 30 inch hooked up to a mac and is running it at a non native resolution. Seems like a total waste but true story. I also know of a NEC 30 inch in a microscope facility at MSU that was running at non native res till I fixed it. These are the customers those companies need to deal with anything you plug in and setup just has to work.
