Shopping for this monitor my criteria were: 27 inch screen, sits low (close to the desk surface) and decent text. I got all three. The stand is adjustable in height. I have it all the way down, putting the bottom of the screen about 2.4 inches above the desk surface. If you don’t wear bifocal or trifocal glasses you might wonder why I want it low. This way I don’t have to tip my head back much. The screen can be raised to put the bottom 7.6 inches above the desk surface. The screen can also be rotated 90 degrees to give a portrait display. This is probably for programmers who have more than one screen, and want to see lots of lines of code at once. I suppose there are other uses. I won’t be using it in the portrait position. All stand adjustments (height, rotation, and tilt) are easy and solid. The whole product is solidly built in every way.
I have one gripe. There is only one 8 ½ by 11 sheet of paper for documentation, and it is all pictures, no words. The User Guide is on the internet but apparently Amazon does not want me to give you the link. How hard would it be for them to tell me that? It actually took me a while to find it. So after I had it all set up I looked at the user guide. It says I was supposed to power down the computer and unplug it before hooking up the monitor. I didn’t do any of that and it worked fine.
The screen looks good from viewing angles between -45 to +45 degrees. Beyond that it gets a bit dim.
Putting it together with the one sheet of pictures was simple, fast, and easy. No tools required.
There are five buttons on the bottom edge of the monitor, on the right side. The one on the far right (I’ll call it #5) is power. The one next (#4) to it brings up a little menu. Then, pressing #3 gives a menu. From there it is pretty intuitive so I’ll stop with the guided tour.
I thought the settings were pretty good out of the box. I turned down the brightness a bit, turned up the sharpness a bit, checked out the color settings and left them on Standard, and fiddled with the left-right, up-down centering to be sure it was correct.
I don’t play a lot of games and I don’t have sixteen other monitors to compare it with, so I can’t make some of the comments the other reviewers have made along those lines. It is not designed for games, does not have speakers, and is not touch screen. You know that from reading the product description.
| Standing screen display size | 27 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 Pixels |
