those monitors are beautiful. i own an achievia shimian but its the same lg made s-ips lcd panel inside the yamakasi. i got lucky when i got mine and ended up with one single dead pixel... so beware that the model you have picked out clearly says defective and "may" have a few dead pixels. my single dead one is hard to notice, if i put someone in front of the screen it would take them at least a few minutes to find it. many of them dont though but they have some backlight bleeding, usually near the edges, mine does a little, but its very very hard to notice and only when you have a really dark/black image on screen.