Review on Dell P2715Q 27-Inch LED Lit 4K Monitor: Immerse Yourself with Crystal Clear Picture Quality by Harry Glass

After owning it for about a month I finally have some thoughts for those who are considering buying it. I'm using it on a 2013 MacPro with D700 graphics cards running OS X 10.10 and 10.11. Screen quality: excellent. 3840 x 2160 pixels at 60 Hz over a single ADC cable. I usually run it on the 3rd or 4th monitor dial in the display settings. It displays text and images almost as well as a Retina device and looks significantly better than the two 27-inch Thunderbolt displays it sits alongside. Very bright and clear display. This is one of the two reasons I bought the monitor and it immediately brings the rating to 4 stars. Especially for the money. Rotation: This is another reason I bought it. Open the display settings and say it's you. I'm gonna shoot it every time, which isn't great, but I don't do it more than a few times a day. The rotation itself is a bit awkward. You need both hands and the base will probably try to turn them. However: a 4K rotating screen at a good price! This confirms the 4 star rating. Built-in settings: You can't use the display settings panel to control settings like brightness and contrast. You must use the built-in monitor controls. Very low res control panel and very fiddly and unmarked 4 button system, you just have to remember how it works. Especially if you are using a Mac, it feels weird to have to use such an inconvenient menu and settings control. In this case, you know that a Dell monitor is connected to your Apple computer. Quality of detail without a screen: once you get the monitor up and running, you'll understand why this thing is so cheap. All the money has gone into the pixels in front of you, and everything else is made out of the cheapest plastic they can make. Frames, buttons, stands. In comparison to the Apple TB displays, it stands out in terms of quality. The back of the display also has an awkward plastic cover that you can snap open, but that's not something you'll want to fiddle with on a regular basis. I never use it to connect other devices like I do with TB displays all the time because everything is so hard to get and change. Currently I'm not worried about using it to connect something else. I suspect that if this is your only monitor, you'll add things and then decide to rarely change your configuration. Bug: This screen activates in response to your Mac waking up significantly later than TB displays, which wake up immediately. This monitor is always delayed by about 15 seconds. So if, like me, you have a heterogeneous setup, this means there will be times when waking from sleep also means all your windows will be moved around, as the Mac had to make some decisions about the position of the windows when the ad did. not wake up. just as fast as the others. So it's annoying, but it doesn't happen every time. There's a moment when I wake my Mac that makes me wonder if I need to spend a few minutes rearranging the windows again. But there is a real bug that happened about 3 times in the last month (quite rare back then): sometimes the screen didn't wake up at all. The only remedy is to unplug it (!) and then plug it back in. Even trying to press the monitor's power button doesn't work. Strange right? Not much. If this monitor wasn't so cheap I might give it 3 stars, but it's so cheap I really can't help but be excited and give it 4 more stars. I mean 4k at 60Hz over a single ADC cable that rotates! To win! Buy it, you won't regret it, but know that in terms of overall quality, this is not an Apple monitor. Edit: I just wanted to add that this monitor is also significantly cooler in temperature than the Apple TB displays, so that's a big plus too. Doesn't give off any noticeable heat at all.