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I doubt that a 31.5-inch 3840 x 2160 monitor will be less than $1,000. Dell's U3014, which is 30-inch and 2560x1600, is $1,200.

by sciurus 13y ago

jacquesm 13y ago
And that one is worth every penny (looking at it right now).
- jacques_chester 13y ago
  You can get the same panels for 1/3rd to 1/2 the price from the usual Korean suppliers. I bought two.
  - jacquesm 13y ago
    Fortunately I am no longer in the spot where I have to order things from halfway around the world to save a few bucks but I can just go to dell.com/dell.nl and order what I need for my job. I'd feel if I still had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to get the tools I need for my trade at 48 that I'd be doing something seriously wrong :) It's good those cheaper options exist, me, I just buy what I need at the list price if it's tools, I have one of these at home and one of them at work. It may be a bit more expensive but the time spent and possible frustration on trying to save $500 on something ordered from far away just is not worth it to me, especially not if it were to break at some point during what would normally be the warranty period. I guess at your price point you could simply order yet another one as a spare :) I have the same attitude towards cars (even though I'm perfectly capable of fixing just about anything), food and a few other items. In some ways this is a tremendous luxury and I am well aware of that.
    - jacques_chester 13y ago
      I hear you. There's a lot of things I don't bother to comparison shop for these days. I'm in that place where I can order them from Dell and pay the 300% markup. I just felt that earning effectively $1600/hr in terms of time spent selecting a weird Korean monitor was an effective ROI. When I'm billing that much I guess I'll feel differently :)
  - cbg0 13y ago
    Quality is about on par with price for those Korean monitors.
    - jacques_chester 13y ago
      They're literally the same panels as the Dells and Apples.
mtgx 13y ago
We've seen some $400 2560x1600 monitors, and also a $1,300 4k TV. That Dell one sounds like it's from the "old era" of high resolution monitors. I could see it go under $1,000, if Asus really wanted to turn it into a mass market product, and doesn't just want to sell 1,000 of them.

I doubt that a 31.5-inch 3840 x 2160 monitor will be less than $1,000. Dell's U3014, which is 30-inch and 2560x1600, is $1,200.

by sciurus 13y ago

I doubt that a 31.5-inch 3840 x 2160 monitor will be less than $1,000. Dell's U3014, which is 30-inch and 2560x1600, is $1,200.

jacquesm 13y ago

And that one is worth every penny (looking at it right now).

jacques_chester 13y ago
You can get the same panels for 1/3rd to 1/2 the price from the usual Korean suppliers. I bought two.
- jacquesm 13y ago
  Fortunately I am no longer in the spot where I have to order things from halfway around the world to save a few bucks but I can just go to dell.com/dell.nl and order what I need for my job. I'd feel if I still had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to get the tools I need for my trade at 48 that I'd be doing something seriously wrong :) It's good those cheaper options exist, me, I just buy what I need at the list price if it's tools, I have one of these at home and one of them at work. It may be a bit more expensive but the time spent and possible frustration on trying to save $500 on something ordered from far away just is not worth it to me, especially not if it were to break at some point during what would normally be the warranty period. I guess at your price point you could simply order yet another one as a spare :) I have the same attitude towards cars (even though I'm perfectly capable of fixing just about anything), food and a few other items. In some ways this is a tremendous luxury and I am well aware of that.
  - jacques_chester 13y ago
    I hear you. There's a lot of things I don't bother to comparison shop for these days. I'm in that place where I can order them from Dell and pay the 300% markup. I just felt that earning effectively $1600/hr in terms of time spent selecting a weird Korean monitor was an effective ROI. When I'm billing that much I guess I'll feel differently :)
- cbg0 13y ago
  Quality is about on par with price for those Korean monitors.
  - jacques_chester 13y ago
    They're literally the same panels as the Dells and Apples.

mtgx 13y ago

We've seen some $400 2560x1600 monitors, and also a $1,300 4k TV. That Dell one sounds like it's from the "old era" of high resolution monitors. I could see it go under $1,000, if Asus really wanted to turn it into a mass market product, and doesn't just want to sell 1,000 of them.