New 27-inch UltraSharp U2711 WQHD announced.

Alfie · 2 Mar 2010 at 15:26

garsands said:
off out for a walk with the kids now so will be a few hours till I open it up & install it.

I always thought I wanted to be a family man until I read this.

frustin · 2 Mar 2010 at 16:20

garsands said:

in the words of all my favorite girlfriends i've had, over the years, "look at the size of that thing!".

Alfie · 2 Mar 2010 at 17:41

you must have some special sense of perspective I don't have! From that picture it could be a 19" monitor surely? (I know it isn't obviously, but there is no reference point to guage its size)

kmetek · 2 Mar 2010 at 17:42

http://www.prad.de/new/monitore/test/2010/test-dell-u2711.html

just "GOOD" overalll...for 1000€ should be VERY GOOD....

Adrianr · 2 Mar 2010 at 19:01

kmetek said:
http://www.prad.de/new/monitore/test/2010/test-dell-u2711.html

just "GOOD" overalll...for 1000€ should be VERY GOOD....

Can you read German? Why did they conclude Good rather than Very good?

Alfie · 2 Mar 2010 at 20:11

he can probably read http://translate.google.com/#

danielanthony · 2 Mar 2010 at 20:13

Got my U2711 and typing this on it now

My initial impressions are very positive, there is no yellow tint which I can see and switching from my PC DVI input to the PS3 on HDMI takes about 2 seconds.

Haven't really had much time to game on this beast yet but am getting SCOM2 this weekend so will report back then.

As I didn't get this direct from Dell I called them to make sure the warranty was valid, they said yes so long as I filled in a transfer of ownership form available on their website. This requires the sellers details and takes about 3 weeks.

One thing for other U2711 owners, I didn't realise that there is a special dual link DVI cable which comes with the monitor. I tried using my original DVI cable from my 24"er and couldn't figure out why the picture was all fuzzy... DOH!

inflynx · 2 Mar 2010 at 20:47

Could those lucky people who already got the screen report how it is in games and movie, please? I want one for myself, but play quite a lot and never used anything other than TN, so a bit concerned.

garsands · 2 Mar 2010 at 21:08

Meridiusuk said:
Today's the day ? I bet u can not wait, would like to know about the res switching problem of this monitor as the review said that it took up to 15sec to resync to the other res I hope this is not the case and hope u can try this out.

3-4 Secs Max

inflynx said:
Could those lucky people who already got the screen report how it is in games and movie, please? I want one for myself, but play quite a lot and never used anything other than TN, so a bit concerned.

Games it kills your fps on max res,
Dirt 2 I have gone form 99-105 fps to 33-35 fps

Can't say about movies

Adrianr · 2 Mar 2010 at 21:11

Alfie said:
he can probably read http://translate.google.com/#

Not sure what language that produces, but that's nothing usefull either! I'l wait for Siobhan's translation.

inflynx · 2 Mar 2010 at 21:27

garsands said:
3-4 Secs Max
Games it kills your fps on max res,
Dirt 2 I have gone form 99-105 fps to 33-35 fps

Well, increasing res would drop fps, that is pretty much given. I was more wondering about ghosting, response time, etc.

Alfie · 2 Mar 2010 at 23:12

Adrianr said:
Not sure what language that produces, but that's nothing usefull either! I'l wait for Siobhan's translation.

Are you serious?

http://translate.google.com/transla...re/test/2010/test-dell-u2711.html&sl=de&tl=en

Adrianr · 2 Mar 2010 at 23:25

Alfie said:
Are you serious?

http://translate.google.com/transla...re/test/2010/test-dell-u2711.html&sl=de&tl=en

Have you actually read what it says? Or just seen a few English words and assumed it makes sense?

"In farbmanagementfähigen applications is the basis for a very accurate representation of the two working spaces as the source color space or a soft proof given on the basis of standard coated."

Like I said, I'll wait for the proper translation.

cokebottles · 3 Mar 2010 at 11:22

Hello U2711 owners...

The lower price this monitor seems to be going for on the auction site has "stirred" my interest once again. I have been putting off an 27" iMac purchase till the yellow-tint screen issue has been sorted.

In the meantime I wonder if any of you guys that have a U2711 would be kind enough to do a quick test to see if it also suffers the yellow-tint issue, as it shares the same LG 8bit panel as in the 27" iMac.

Instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=824940

Meridiusuk · 3 Mar 2010 at 12:57

any new pictures or how this monitor performs ?

garsands · 3 Mar 2010 at 15:16

cokebottles said:
Hello U2711 owners...

In the meantime I wonder if any of you guys that have a U2711 would be kind enough to do a quick test to see if it also suffers the yellow-tint issue, as it shares the same LG 8bit panel as in the 27" iMac.

I did not want to do that test in case I ended up being upset, but I did it & pleased to say it's a pass.
No yellow tint, I did it with the lights off in a dark room.

Adrianr · 3 Mar 2010 at 15:39

You seem to have quite bendy bezels?

garsands · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:26

Yes in the photos they do look bendy, it must be the way my camera processes the image & the perspective that I took photo.
I have very little space to work with where my PC is.
In person it's not bendy, reminds me of the old monitors when you had to make the image square.

Still not had time to try games out.

Adrianr · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:34

S'alright, I'm a photographer. It was a bad, bad joke

(I'm avoiding re-doing my CV)

garsands · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:49

This thread is it not doing my blood pressure any good

1st it was the monitor may not be covered by the Dell warranty
Then do a yellow tint test
Now bendy bezels

Making the most of it right now, daughter is sat on my lap listening to Cbeebies songs on one window, while I am trying this out in the other window loads of room.