In my experience there aren't too many people that work in 'IT' ...which is a pretty darn varied field anyway, that really have a clue about electronics. They will believe all sorts of he said, she said bull doodoo and if Bob's, mother's, brother's pen friend from Pluto had something made by X company and it had a problem ...then obviously it must mean that for all eternity all products made by X company are rubbish and should be avoided like Primary Syphilis. Despite the fact that the very same person will swear by a product made by Y company ...which uses 90% of the same parts anyway and is made in the factory next door. Personally I would pay a little more attention to the after sales support the company gives if you do get a problem, that's where companies like Dell really earn their stars.
I've only seen an LCD fail once, and that was because of a water leak ...and that would have killed any LCD, whoever made it or however old. I've seen many old LCD's get chucked by companies just because they are small and old and have simply been replaced by something newer and nicer to look at, they still worked fine.
After all, when you upgrade your office machines every 3 or 4 years on lease, you don't keep your old monitors, and if you buy the machines the same is usually true again.
