Dell U2711 x1 or Dell U2410 x2

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Dell U2711 x1 or Dell U2410 x2

What would you do? I do a lot of website tweaking so Im sure side by side monitors will help? I Will be editing photos soon as getting a new DSLR and maybe a small amount of gaming.

Thanks.
 
Both a quality screens so it depends on whats more important to you - colour accuracy or productivity? Personally if you take your photo editing seriously or if you run it as business and you have lots of apps open at once I would go with the two U2410's as having two screens makes life a lot easier (from years of experience).
 
Freddie1980 said:
Both a quality screens so it depends on whats more important to you - colour accuracy or productivity? Personally if you take your photo editing seriously or if you run it as business and you have lots of apps open at once I would go with the two U2410's as having two screens makes life a lot easier (from years of experience).
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Photo editing is not a business more of a new hobby, I tend to use a lot programs at once so i presume the dual monitors is going to be a better solution?
 
For websites dual u2410 seems like a waste of money. You don't need (and shouldn't even want) a wide gamut monitor for web development and could save yourself a lot of money by simply going for the standard gamut u2412m. If you do something that actually requires a wide gamut monitor you could go for a u2412m+u2410 so you can use the u2412m to see what the visitors of the website see.
 
Axeia said:
For websites dual u2410 seems like a waste of money. You don't need (and shouldn't even want) a wide gamut monitor for web development and could save yourself a lot of money by simply going for the standard gamut u2412m. If you do something that actually requires a wide gamut monitor you could go for a u2412m+u2410 so you can use the u2412m to see what the visitors of the website see.
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That's not a bad idea.
 
Hmm, Confused now :confused: I'm no pro with photography but would be nice to edit them properly on a good monitor, But I also do a lot of web development for work.

My current 17" Philips monitor at home is 7 years old and well past a upgrade how I've used it for so long I dont know... So maybe Ive picked the wrong monitors.. What would you suggest?
 
If you want the details I'll refer you to the tftcentral.co.uk specifications page.

Short version with information relevant to you is found in their Buyers FAQ.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/faq.htm said:
Colour gamut - don't assume that a higher colour gamut is better! The gamut represents the colour space that the backlighting unit of the monitor allows the screen to display. You need to understand that most normal content is based on a certain colour space (sRGB) and that there can be issues if you view this using a wide gamut screen. See here for more information.
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The 'normal content' that's referred to is your target group (web visitors). Wide gamut monitors tend to give a much more saturated (oversaturated) image although the Dells have very good sRGB emulation. Still, paying for a feature just to undo it and see approximately what the rest of the world sees seems like a bad idea. The u2711 is wide gamut as well btw, but as there is no alternative with that size/resolution from Dell you can't really say pick the cheaper one. Hazro, HP, Fujitsu, Samsung and soon Lenovo and ASUS do/will have alternatives though.
If you do photo editing for printwork then I think getting both a u2410 and u2412m would be your best option. Leaves you with both a standard and wide gamut option and with one u2412m the costs will be reduced quite a bit.

If you can you may want to wait for input from someone who actually knows his stuff when it comes to these things though. All my knowledge is from my own interpretation of what's written on the web. Never used a wide gamut myself :)
 
Is there any physical difference between the two monitors (U2410 and U2412M) i.e. could you tell them apart if they were sat next to each other?
 
So heres another option.

A 27" and a 24". I have 24 27 24. And phyically there almost same height, by less than an inch maybe, because the 24s are 16:10 and 27 is 16:9.

The dot pitch is different though, which may give you problems going from to antoher. I dont use it too often for work going from one to another so Im not too bothered by it.
 
I had two 19" widescreens and then i bought a 24" dell and I had one 19" next to it for a while but i found i used it less and less. So i ended up removing the 19" and just have the 24 inch now. Sometimes I miss the second screen because i got quite used to, as had that set up for a few years. But due to the increases in res I don't realy need it. Plus it looks so crap next to my nice dell u2412m i wouldn't want to watch anything on it etc.

If i could afford another 2412m i would buy it and then have two of them, that way i could watch something and be on the pc at the same time.
 
Axeia said:
If you want the details I'll refer you to the tftcentral.co.uk specifications page.

Short version with information relevant to you is found in their Buyers FAQ.


The 'normal content' that's referred to is your target group (web visitors). Wide gamut monitors tend to give a much more saturated (oversaturated) image although the Dells have very good sRGB emulation. Still, paying for a feature just to undo it and see approximately what the rest of the world sees seems like a bad idea. The u2711 is wide gamut as well btw, but as there is no alternative with that size/resolution from Dell you can't really say pick the cheaper one. Hazro, HP, Fujitsu, Samsung and soon Lenovo and ASUS do/will have alternatives though.
If you do photo editing for printwork then I think getting both a u2410 and u2412m would be your best option. Leaves you with both a standard and wide gamut option and with one u2412m the costs will be reduced quite a bit.

If you can you may want to wait for input from someone who actually knows his stuff when it comes to these things though. All my knowledge is from my own interpretation of what's written on the web. Never used a wide gamut myself :)
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OK, So getting back to the topic slightly... The only difference in a Wide Gamut display is the way it displays colour? So side be side a u2412m+u2410 is just going to display colours differently?

Is the only difference between a u2412m+u2410 the fact that one is wide gamut?
 
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