I have been dreaming of this monitor for the last 5 years and it finally is here. Yep, I will buy one of these babies without blinking.
Displayport is a exceptionally nice bonus!

If the design of the HC you mentioned is so bad GK, why did you buy it? Surely there was something with better specs you wouldn't understand or know how to use... But at least you'd have that feature in case someday you did figure it out...

I hope nobody showed Charlie Demerjian that photo with all the ports on it after he'd been complaining bitterly about his 3007 with only one port. Can I hear crying from here?

Hey, its call technology and technology only moves forward. A year after this, something better will come out, get the pattern genius?

wonder which is better

Just bought the HC 30inch, so now I need to go buy another one? The HC monitor only has 1 ! yea ONE DVI Input??? What genius thought of this?
THANKS DeLL GREAT JOB!!!! Hire more people that have no clue of new technology...

S-IPS not S-PVA please?

The 3007 will run any resolution you want. I know, I have two - you simply use the scaling feature on your video card, rather than the monitor. The results are identical to using a scaling chip in the monitor. It astounds me that the ranters do not realise this.

I was hoping/assuming 2008 was the year we'd finally start seeing consumer 10/12 bit panels. 8-bits per channel will never be enough for decent looking gradients.

As for graphics card scaling, it's not a great deal of use if you wanted the monitor connected to a PS3 say...

I would kill for one of these.

Never thought I'd say that about a Dell product. 

Think I'll stick with the Samsung 24" I've chosen to buy though - I'm betting this costs more than my house is worth.

A normal OSD and screen calibration controls this time? :)

No doubt Charlie will bless us with another pointless rant about the monitor, a year and a half after it is released, complaining about "missing features" clearly stated on the website as well as other review sites.

Call me when it's up to revision A03; they might actually work out the bugs by then.

My 3007 from February 2006 has a built in USB hub and N-in-2 card reader (I can't remember what N is, I just use it for Compact Flash).