Dell S2722QC 27-inch 4K USB-C Monitor - UHD (3840 x 2160) Display, 60Hz Refresh Rate, 8MS Grey-to-Grey Response Time (Normal Mode), Built-in Dual 3W Speakers, 1.07 Billion Colors Platinum Silver

#1:Dell S2722QC 27-inch 4K USB-C Monitor - UHD (3840 x 2160) Display, 60Hz Refresh Rate, 8MS Grey-to-Grey Response Time (Normal Mode), Built-in Dual 3W Speakers, 1.07 Billion Colors Platinum Silver

 

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Arnold J. Hong
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing image
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2024
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722QCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
The monitor is my primary work monitor and for gaming and entertainment. It has excellent 4K picture quality, with vivid colors and sharp details. The USB-C connectivity is easy to connect with my laptop and can also be used as a charger. It has amazingly thin bezels and has an overall sleek, modern design. The price point is spot on for this monitor. It lifts up on down easily and fits perfectly on my standing desk.

Since I don't use it too much for gaming, the 60Hz refresh rate doesn't diminish the monitor experience for me. However, I would say the speaker is subpar. My laptop has a better speaker than the monitor. Besides for the speaker issue, I am extremely happy with the image quality, connectivity, and design of this Dell monitor.
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Paul Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Great value for a UHD monitor!
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2023
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2721QSStyle: HDMIVerified Purchase
For office applications, this UHD monitor performs well. If value is important to you, you likely won't be disappointed.

tl;dr

When the work you do daily requires a full-time commitment to being in front of a screen to do your job, then the characteristics of that screen can have a substantial impact on your productivity, health, etc. Having used a "standard" HD monitor for quite some time at work, I was starting to find it to be too constraining and difficult to work on. I felt it was time for an upgrade to a UHD/4k monitor.

After some research, I settled upon this model, as it scored well on use in an office environment (according to rtings.com), it had consistently high reviews, and it was priced attractively here on Amazon. It also included speakers and a versatile stand, which were nice additional perks that I thought could come in handy. I took the plunge and have not been disappointed.

This monitor has met or exceeded all of my expectations for office applications. The picture is clear. I have ample ability to control brightness, contrast, etc. And the refresh rate remains at 60Hz as long as the attached device can support it. The stand allows for all the control that I could ask for in positioning the display, but I've since attached it to a desk-mounted monitor arm which I also really like. I should also mention that having 2 input channels has been very convenient, as it has allowed me to use it as a shared display between different computers. In a pinch, I've even used the speakers on a few occasions; they're not very good, but then again I don't expect them to be. Also, I have used it once as a monitor for a video game console, and I was quite pleased with it. Again, the audio was sub-par, but the picture (including refresh rate) was excellent.

For the value, I've been really pleased with this monitor so far. Since I use it primarily for office applications, I can definitely recommend it for that. And as a general-purpose display, it seems to perform well and should not disappoint much. But if you want something that will perform optimally for gaming (especially with high refresh rates), then you will probably not be considering this to begin with. Also, if you want something that has great built-in speakers, I recommend using a TV instead.
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Julian
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing panel with some other caveats
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2023
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722QCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
After playing with a friend’s new Apple Studio Display, I had to upgrade my ancient setup, but without spending $1600 dollars. I decided to give this $300 Dell a try. Frankly, I am blown away. Next to my Macbook Pro XDR display, this looks just a smooth and detailed to me with good contrast as Apple’s high-end monitor. Every app icon and the curves around typography are luscious. Images are well saturated and lively. It’s hard to believe it’s not 5K, though for some reason System Profiler does report it as a 5K monitor. It also says it’s only 300 nits of brightness but it looks as bright as my 500 nit MacBook Pro display. This is certainly better than the Samsung I have at work, which always seems washed out and bland no matter how I play with the calibration settings.

The caveats are solely with everything besides the panel. The USB hub has only two ports, one of which is awkwardly on the bottom of the monitor, which would be great for a keyboard and nothing else. And you must choose between High Data Rate or High Resolution modes. At High Data Rate, I get about 145 mbps through a hard drive, but I can see some banding on gradient tests. On High Resolution, I only get 35 mbps through the hard disk, but the banding test looks perfect. The idea that I would easily plug two hard drives into here is not going to happen.
There’s also an annoying light on the bottom I have to put some tape over. There’s a setting to turn it off when the monitor is on, but it’s always on when the monitor is in standby. The rest of the electronics world has stopped putting obnoxious, unnecessary LEDs on everything, and Dell needs to get with the program.
Speaking of standby, the monitor shows a series of three error messages when you put the computer to sleep. This monitor needs to chill out and go with the flow. If the computer is turned off it should also go off without complaint.
The stand is a tad bit wobbly and could be better.
Don’t bother with the speaker—it’s terrible.
The OSD menus are long and complicated. On Apple displays you just plug them in and they work without any OSD. I feel like a monitor should just display things accurately and shouldn’t need to be configured.
I recommend the MonitorControl app for Mac to seamlessly change the brightness. Others recommend Lunar, but it’s far too complex.

In sum, it’s not perfect but it’s surprisingly great for $300, the price of just the inferior matte coating on a Studio Display.

Measurements
ΔE 0.92,
Gamut coverage
99.5% sRGB
80.6% Adobe RGB
88.6% DCI P3
Gamut volume
125.9% sRGB
86.8% Adobe RGB
89.2% DCI P3
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Denise
5.0 out of 5 stars Great design!
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2721QSStyle: HDMIVerified Purchase
I used to be in the bigger-is-better camp for desktop PC-stuff until I reached the 32" threshold (which was just uncomfortable for daily use). I also admit to having been on the all Samsung/all-the-time team with great experiences for years, including my large smart TV. Anyway, my laptop/tablet screens are great but too small, 32" is great but too big, this product is just great.

Setup was intuitive, the stand slipped together in seconds, and the default settings resulted in a picture as soon as my new PC was turned on. Moreover, personalizing the configuration was easier than any bit of display tech I've ever used - with on-screen true-English help, a simple active port selection scheme, and useful options. So far it looks great and works great. The stand/mount could be more versatile, but is not a problem. IPS and FreeSync seem to work and while not the highest pixel count available, I think normal users will be more than satisfied.
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Jamieson
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE this monitor!
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2024
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722QCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
I got it on a lightning deal for $250 and the quality/features are honestly amazing at that price point. I actually replaced my Samsung CRG49 for this panel. It’s crisp, color accurate, charges my Dell latitude and M1 pro Macbook pro.
My ONLY complaint is the refresh rate and quiet tinny speakers but I use headphones. I’ve enjoyed having 120hz for a few years and going back to 60hz is a bummer at times. But it’s infinitely better on the eyes for text, excel, SQL, and email which is 90% of my job.
I edit photos in my free time and have no issues with the 10 bit color accuracy. It’s not at the level of my Macbooks screen, but plenty good considering the price.
The only gaming I’ve done on it is emulation with GameCube and PS2 on my Macbook. Neither of those systems can run past 60fps anyways so the refresh rate is fine for that. I don’t see any smearing, blotching, or color banding.
Overall it’s a 10/10 office/productivity monitor, a 7/10 for creatives, and probably a 5/10 for modern FPS gaming but 9/10 for casual/emulated gaming.
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Kathy W.
5.0 out of 5 stars Almost Perfect Monitor for Home Use
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2023
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722QCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
I've had the monitor for almost week now but held off writing a review just to be sure that what I wrote is accurate from my perspective. This monitor is replacing a 13 year old HP 2310M which is still working well, just time for an upgrade. I had a bunch of Amazon gift cards after the holidays and my birthday and started researching monitors. In the many years since I last purchased a monitor it appears a LOT has changed...starting with the fact that for the first time ever it looked like I wasn't going to purchase a new HP, and likely LG or Dell were going to be my front runners for a new 4K. Not being a gamer even during the height of the pandemic, my display is for web sufing, mild photo editing, emails, YouTube and an occasional movie, and it looked like a 27 inch was perfect for my needs moving up from a 24 inch unit.

Humongous box arrives (and was not even taped....shame on you Amazon) but luckily everything was well wrapped and intact and the monitor was extremely easy to set up. Since I am using an almost brand new Windows 11 laptop, I hooked up through the provided USB-C cable, plugged a small ethernet adapter hub with three ports into a USB 3.0 port and fired it up. Beautiful color even in my home office which sits in front of windows and doesn't appear washed out. I know the high tech folks like to play around with all of the controls and recalibrate everything, but for a normal person, it is pretty much a plug and play scenario which just works out of the box. As a real plus, I had hope that with the monitor having a USB-C port that my ethernet adapter was also going to work in one of the USB 3.0 ports but had read a couple of reviews that said it did not or would not...wrong...mine works perfectly and I'm getting full gig speed. I'm using bluetooth to connect my mechanical keyboard and mouse, so the set up for me is USB-C from the monitor to my laptop with a single cable to power everything...my ethernet adapter hub is in the rear port next to the USB-C connection and has a single port on its hub connected to power my monitor light bar. So in essence everything is powered through a single cable and I still have the open USB 3.0 port toward the front of the monitor to charge my phone, as well a couple of open ports on the ethernet hub if I need to switch over to wireless for my keyboard or mouse.

I've used pretty extensively over the last week and have seen no signs of flickering, burn in or edge bleeding as others have reported. So all in all, after doing a ton of research and trying things out for the last week, I believe I have found a winner for my needs. To sweeten the pot, I managed to get it on sale for $299 and after using my gift cards ending up paying $0 for the monitor! Score!!!
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J.F. Carroll
5.0 out of 5 stars Boring Dell does the job
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2721QSStyle: HDMIVerified Purchase
Comfort View I think has mostly been legit but I use it with the f.lux software, I think that's actually kind of important. No issues with f.lux going from laptop HPENVY360 to Dell.

Have gamed on it once or twice only probably 60fps XBOX-X MW3, looked fine. And PS5 Gran Turismo 7. Not a PC gamer.

Such a HUGE upgrade to looking at my PC all day, an external monitor will change your life. Going USB-C to Display Port, HDMI for games and movies and not a huge difference. Generic display port cable. Maybe I should've upgraded? Eh who cares.

I also have this plugged into a power conditioner (AQPowerQuest2) but I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes. Saves my eyes from that tiny laptop, should've bought one of these in middle school.

How did I only look at small PC for so long? Don't be like me, buy an external monitor right now if you don't have one.

The 4K is good, movies look very good, games look very good. Legit monitor.
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Social science professor
5.0 out of 5 stars About as good as the much more expensive Dell U2720QM monitor (I own both)
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722QCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
I have external monitors at home and work so I can just plug in my M1 Macbook Air and have plenty of screen real estate.

I bought this monitor 6 weeks ago to replace an aging 24" Dell monitor that had served me very well. But 4K monitors have been getting better and coming down in price, so it was time to upgrade.

Last fall, I bought the more expensive Dell U2720QM monitor for my office at work. That one cost about $550 (and often cannot be found for less than $650). This one, the Dell S2722QC, costs about $380. I will be comparing them in this review, and - spoiler alert - this monitor, the QC, is pretty much just as good as the more expensive QM.

Both the QC and QM models are 27", 4K, have nice bright screens, and accurate vivid colors right out of the box.

Both have wonderfully adjustable stands: there's the usual tilt & swivel, and you can slide the screen up to a higher position (useful if the screen is plugged into a laptop and the laptop is directly in front of the screen on your desk) or to a very low position where the bottom of the monitor is an inch from the surface of your desk. But the really cool thing is that stand (for BOTH monitors) allows you to rotate the screen 90 degrees so it's in portrait mode. That's really helpful for some of my use-cases. It's also useful to help you see the ports on the bottom edge of the display, when you're plugging in cables - otherwise they're hard to see when you're trying to plug something in.

Both of these monitors can replace a USB-C hub. Meaning, you can plug in several peripherals into the monitor and connect the monitor to your computer using just a single USB-C cable. Your computer will get power from the monitor over the same USB-C cable that your computer uses to transmit data to the monitor. And your computer will see all the peripherals that are connected to the monitor as if they were connected directly to your computer.

These USB-C hubs are godsends for people with laptops that only have 1 or 2 or 3 USB-C ports. For this reason, I have used USB-C hubs for my offices at home and work; they're not cheap, but they're worth it for me.

But the USB-C hubs take up desk space and have some cord clutter. With the Dell monitors, I don't need the USB-C hubs any more. I donated one to my college and the other to a local church. Both Dell monitors have enough ports for me to plug in my printer, my external hi-fi speakers, my external web-cam for Zoom & FaceTime calls, and an external SSD hard drive.

So why does the Dell U2720QM cost so much more than this Dell S2722QC? Well, the QM has one or two more ports (for the USB-C hub functionality) than this QC model. And, on paper, the QM seems to have a slightly better display, according to specs. But I have both, and I can't tell a difference in video quality. Probably people who do a ton of photo and video editing could, but I have good eyes and I can't tell the difference, and I don't think most people will see enough of a difference to justify spending $200 more for the QM model.

Oh, here's one more difference: the cheaper QC model has built-in speakers, the more expensive QM model does not. I have to say, I really dislike the sound that comes from the speakers in the QC monitor; it is very very thin and tinny sounding, almost to the point of being shrill and annoying. My laptop speakers (which are not great) sound way better.

And that's a shame, because if you're feeding video into the QC monitor from HDMI (for example if you plug a blu-ray player into the HDMI port), the audio goes in over the same cable, so the monitor really needs to have its own speakers otherwise it's difficult to find a way to hear the sound.

Bottom line: for most people, this $380 QC model is every bit as good as the QM model that costs $550 or $650 or more, even though both have a gorgeous 27" 4K display and both have very useful USB-C hub functionality. And the stand's flexibility is really useful.

Highly recommended!
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Gézike
5.0 out of 5 stars Before you buy, verify your video card!
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2024
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722QCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
If your video card can not support the maximum resolution of this monitor, you will waste your money. But if it can, you will get exceptional sharpness and vivid colors! You might also need to buy a cable that connects your computer to this monitor since the included cable does not work with older computers. I ended up buying a new computer to match this monitor since my existing computer was not set up for gaming. But I needed the high resolution for my failing eyes to write code.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Expansion Monitor
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024
Display Size: 27 InchesSize: S2722DCStyle: USB-CVerified Purchase
This DELL monitor is worth the money. It is sharp and clear. I bought it in part because of my eye sight and it has helped tremendously being larger and clearer. The only problem I had was in registering the monitor with Dell since it was not purchased directly from Dell, but from Amazon. Really no way to do this from the Dell Web site. Finally got on-line assistance and got the monitor registered.

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