Dell UltraSharp 27 Inch 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) LED Backlit LCD IPS USB-C Monitor

I will not review the technical features of this monitor. It has been selected as the "best 4k monitor for office use" in various sites, and it certainly deserves the ranking. The text is sharp, the colors are accurate enough for most of my use case scenarios, it is bright, and the refresh rate is enough for programming and streaming purposes. It is a great monitor for programming online teaching and not-so-professional video editing.Instead, I will review this as an international customer.+ The monitor power supply supports the 100-240V range and has a standard IEC-c14 so you can plug it in Eu directly with a c13 connector. No voltage conversion is necessary.+ Monitor is super light. This helps hugely in shipping, not-so-considerate customs personnel, and also mounting it on a VESA bracket.+ Kudos to the design of the packaging. I have received the outer "amazon" package with almost no padding. Consequently, the inner (Dell) package was considerably damaged. On top of that, both the outer and inner (Dell) package was opened, and the customs personnel did not bother to close the parcel properly. Still, the monitor survived the trip unscratched, despite being thrown around in an open parcel. This is thanks to how the stand is packed, and the panel is sandwiched between dampening/shock-absorbing structures. Really, I admire that design professionally.If I have to nitpick, here are the things I don't like that much:-No back panel cable management cover. Dangling cords. Yikes.-Not enough printed documentation. It took me some wrong starts to VESA mount the monitor. (in the meantime, I have seen that the stand upper assembly can be disassembled)-A Mini DP port could've been nice.-The menu buttons are quite painful to press, and the menu itself is super low resolution.-USB-C standard looks good on paper, but in reality, there is a huge cable compatibility problem. Don't lose the cable that comes with it.

I would not use this if you have to do strenuous pre-print photo editing but for day to day business tasks and editing photos for the web this works great!Cant beat the price for quality.I'm using it with the Mac Studio so I have several thunderbolt ports available.The USB-c input on these is sufficient for my needs and looks fantastic (even side by side with my 27" 5K iMac)The only drawback I could see is that if you only have thunderbolt output available, these monitors do not allow you to daisy chain them from one to the other (or if they do, I couldn't figure out how to do it)If you need that functionality (fortunately I didn't) you're probably stuck spending the extra money for a thunderbolt monitor.Nonetheless, these work great with the new Mac Studio and I am very pleased with the cost savings and quality.

Overall a beautiful monitor for daily use. When I was on the hunt for a monitor, this one in particular was on the top list of a lot of Youtubers, which was mainly the reason why I decided to get this. I always take influencers recommendation with a grain of salt because I never really know when they are getting paid, but I can attest that this monitor is really just amazing. The picture quality especially on 4K videos are beautifully crisp and very color accurate and it comes calibrated straight out of the box. However, if you plan to have this near bright open windows this might not be the best monitor for you since it doesn't get that bright, but anything else would be perfect. I got this for around $650, which is still kind of expensive for a monitor, but I think for the quality it's definitely worth it. I've had this monitor for a couple of years now and I don't think I plan on replacing this anytime soon.

This is display has a lot of great things, but a couple flaws keep it from being a perfect monitor, even for the price.The panel and image reproduction in 30bit sdr mode is amazing. Colors look great out of the box, but it definitely is still going to require calibration if you want to seriously use it for design. It covers +99% of sRGB and +97% of DCI-P3. The display gets plenty bright and can be used for just about any type of work. And that's it, it's a great display and if you plan on using this for creative work or even just want a really good and good looking display, this is great!So now for the flaws... each of them are small but add up, and maybe one of these might be a deal breaker for you depending on your use.1. USB-C is not ThunderBolt 3: This is a real stinger for those who were hoping to have a single plug running from their computer to everything else. And the reason why this stings so hard is because to get a 4k@60Hz image to the display, the USB ports on the display can only run at USB 2.0 speeds. This means if you were hoping to plug in things like an Ethernet adapter, you should still run it through another port on your laptop. Additionally, this means you don't have access to any sort of daisy chaining which can be extremely useful for those running multiple monitors. I haven't tested running this monitor's USB-C port through a ThunderBolt Dock so I do not know if that is even a possibility. If you really want this functionality, Dell makes the UP2720, but that will run you about 3x the cost.2. Color modes are pretty useless for most people: The out of box calibration is not good enough to make use of the color modes. I can't remember why, but the white point for the built in P3-DCI is very green looking. So the best way to get the best colors out of the monitor is to run it in the Color Temp 6500k mode and calibrate from there, you will still have access to the wide color space. (I'll get to HDR later)3. Low quality bezel/frame: The display is surrounded by some of the softest plastic I've ever seen. maybe this is to make it better for pressing monitors together side by side but it's not a perfect look. The worst part is down by the buttons, a large number of the monitors will have a QC defect (mine included) where the frame feels like it's pulled a bit off from the body of the monitor which makes pressing on of the buttons just a little more irritating than the others. Very small complaint though because it still is a great looking monitor, but those who get really distracted by small defects might get annoyed too quickly.4. WTF is going on with HDR: All but 1 HDR mode looks like total crap, and in that 1 HDR mode the color space shrivels up to only being inside sRGB. This is all while still running 30bit color. If you are hoping for a great HDR experience, this really isn't the monitor for you. It's serviceable and it's a good monitor for viewing HDR content and playing games in HDR, but I definitely wouldn't recommend doing design work in HDR on this monitor. Which is a let down for people looking for a flawless monitor for mastering on at a great price. The monitor can automatically switch when it detects HDR content, so let it do that, but keep the default in the simple wide color mode.5. No Freesync: This never was supposed to be a gaming monitor, but this would have been greatly appreciated. The LG equivalent has this feature so I'm a bit shocked it wasn't included. Likely the next model will have it since it's not a costly addition to monitors at this point. This makes this significantly worse for gaming though, especially since it's locked at 60Hz.And that's it, I ranted on the bad parts but that's because it's overall a really great monitor that I do recommend for a lot of people. I have a separate monitor to use for gaming, but besides that, this is my main display every day.Notes for Windows Users:1. If you plug in through the HDMI port you might need to go into your settings and enable full color range (limited color range sometimes is the default for HDMI connections)2. To get 30bit (10bit per color) color, you need to enable that manually as well, with an NVIDIA GPU this will be in the NVIDIA Control panel.