LCD monitors

At 02:32 PM 4/23/2005, Eric Smith wrote: Are there that many places that actually repair laptops these days that would drive an eager market for replacement exact-model LCD panels? After all, when the whole laptop is sold, the seller rarely specifies the exact model of the panel inside - but a repairer in need could either assume the panel is the same model and buy the whole for less than the panel sold-separately but knowing which model it was. And why would someone who owned a broken laptop pay someone's labor plus markup on a replacement panel, when they could get the similar laptop for the price of the panel? Why wouldn't the repairer just buy the used similar-model laptop and swap the hard disk? As for flat panel monitors with stuck pixels, if I could buy them at a discount, I could use a half-dozen for tasks around the office to replace bulkier monitors in non-critical tasks. A friend in Mexico called me the other day, looking for a source of inexpensive laptops. He said there's quite a booming market for used laptops down there. Many people would prefer a small laptop over a full desktop for their home system. He thought that even if he had a source of $300-400 200-500 Mhz systems that he could mark them up 30%. - John