Texas Lottery Has Me Jealous

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Texas Lottery Has Me Jealous

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I've been working in and out of convenience stores for a little while now. At the front of most stores they have a monitor looping the Texas Lottery information (i.e. jackpots, new promos, etc...). Every one of these kiosks is running a Dell 30" or Dell 27" display. Yesterday I was trying to peek at the back when the guy behind the counter asked me what I was doing. I told him that if it was a Dell 30" monitor it would cost me around $1,300. He started laughing and said it's a drop in the bucket for the lottery.

Still made me jealous as hell though. I can't tell but it's one of these models. I have a good rapport with the store closest to me so I'll ask to look at the tag to verify which model it is.

Dell 27"
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... e_irrank=0

Dell 30"
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... e_irrank=0

*EDIT*
Local store is definitely not a 27" or 30" monitor. At most it was a 24" so I didn't bother looking. I bet Dell liked that contract. Seems more reasonable to just buy a cheap 32" TV and use it to loop the info. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than even the 24" Dell UltraSharp.

24" UltraSharp is $500!
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... e_irrank=0
32" Vizio (American company) is $318.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Vizio-E321VL/15992428
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Dell sells these as refurbished through their outlet store...I got the 30" for about $900
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Re: Texas Lottery Has Me Jealous

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Still a bunch of money just to show people the lottery jackpots.
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