Well it's a better known brand, so what. You also failed to remember mine was FREE! Plus the dead pixel only shows up when the background is black for w/e reason. I dunno.
Quality/Picture wise. Acer falls short to other name brands (Sony, ViewSonic, NEC). I don't like their picture.
This is a good monitor, under 200. Plus I'm almost postive it comes with a DVI cable. Dead pixels happen anyway, you're really only allowed to return a monitor if it has more then 7 dead pixels. Which is b.s. if you ask me.