how many 2001 horrors have you heard the past month.. maybe 2-3 and they sell thousands of these daily.. i purchase over 200 of these for work and I haven't notice any bad pixels yet.. but im sure some has it.. and theres always a bad monitor or dropped in shipping.
I personally have 3 2001 fp, REV A0 manu 10/2003, still working well.
I also owned a 1800 and upgrdaded to 1801 FP, 1901 (sold) and got a 1905 delivered yesterday
No prob with any of the dells I gotten so far. I had a 2000 FP with blown DVI but that was a common Dell problem (lots of complain on their forums), also 1 had a blown backlight after 3 years, and thats out of over 1000 panels my company owns
not every panel and manufacturing process is perfect.. thats why some hdd fail faster than others.