Summary

Shopping for a new monitor is both exciting and frustrating.

Fortunately, the brand of the monitor isn’t that important.

An often overlooked aspect is the panel production quality.

The Plugable Thunderbolt 4 set up with a laptop and monitor

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Factory color calibrationis another major factor.

However, you could infer that there are many more monitor manufacturers than panel fabrication plants.

This means that monitor manufacturers have no other choice but to procure panels from panel manufacturers.

Closeup of a monitor being color-calibrated.

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That’s because building a monitor involves many other steps, materials, and parts.

As a result, the two monitors can end up looking very different.

After substantial backlash, AOC switched back to the original panel supplier.

LG 32-inch Ultragear Dual Mode OLED monitor at CES 2024.

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If a great monitor from an unknown brand caught your eye recently, don’t hesitate to order it.