Posts by jonnyd37

I ordered a refurbished 8600 on Monday with a 3-year mail-in warranty, and the site wouldn't let me upgrade automatically. So I called the number to try to upgrade it for about $40, and they instead wanted to charge me an additional $140...

Let me ask this differently: does anyone who's had a bad Hitachi screen have the part # from the invoice handy where I could compare? If I got a bad one, I'm going to try to get Dell to send me another before the first even arrives.

I just ordered a refurbished 8600. I found out on the invoice that it has the infamous Hitachi WSXGA+ LCD panel on it, and so it kinda has me worried. Does the problem with leakage and ghosting occur on every Hitachi panel, or is it only...