I recently bought the 16:10 24″ brother of the that ASUS PB278Q, the PB248Q.
And I couldn’t be happier.
It’s full specs are similar with a 1920×1200 res (that means it does 1080P in a letterbox), 6MS (with ASUS Tracefree to try and smooth things out and prevent ghosting which it does indeed manage as well as any IPS can and it has very low input latency); 60Hz, IPS LED (so the screen’s colours are almost entirely uniform with none of that darker at the top and lighter at the bottom junk you get on traditional panels). Don’t know what the contrast is, it says 80 mil to 1 but that’s only with ASCR (dynamic contrast) on which tends to overglow everything and is too slow to respond massive light to dark changes often turning the screen off on changes to very dark scenes from very bright ones. But it’s contrast value is still superb either way.
All connectivity options (VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort); fully adjustable awesomely weighted solid stand (height, swivel and tilt including full portrait orientation if you want), fairly thin matte bezel, 4x USB3 passthrough and some dinky little speakers. Multiple independent colour adjustment options.
And lots of air holes for sufficient cooling during those scorching South African summers.
As far as I’m concerned it’s the best monitor for PC use one can buy at the moment. It’s one of the fastest IPS monitors out there, faster than any Dell, and almost able to match the best gaming monitors whilst offering infinitely superior colour accuracy and uniformity.
Although I am curious how the ASUS MX279H stands up to it since it’s slightly faster (5MS with the same ASUS Tracefree tech for increased smoothness) and standard 16:9 1080P but I wasn’t sure that it’s super thin body would be able to stand many African summers plus it’s not as adjustable as the PB248Q.
At R5600 from Rebeltech it’s well worth a look when you need your next PC monitor.
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I recently bought the 16:10 24″ brother of the that ASUS PB278Q, the PB248Q.
And I couldn’t be happier.
It’s full specs are similar with a 1920×1200 res (that means it does 1080P in a letterbox), 6MS (with ASUS Tracefree to try and smooth things out and prevent ghosting which it does indeed manage as well as any IPS can and it has very low input latency); 60Hz, IPS LED (so the screen’s colours are almost entirely uniform with none of that darker at the top and lighter at the bottom junk you get on traditional panels). Don’t know what the contrast is, it says 80 mil to 1 but that’s only with ASCR (dynamic contrast) on which tends to overglow everything and is too slow to respond massive light to dark changes often turning the screen off on changes to very dark scenes from very bright ones. But it’s contrast value is still superb either way.
All connectivity options (VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort); fully adjustable awesomely weighted solid stand (height, swivel and tilt including full portrait orientation if you want), fairly thin matte bezel, 4x USB3 passthrough and some dinky little speakers. Multiple independent colour adjustment options.
And lots of air holes for sufficient cooling during those scorching South African summers.
As far as I’m concerned it’s the best monitor for PC use one can buy at the moment. It’s one of the fastest IPS monitors out there, faster than any Dell, and almost able to match the best gaming monitors whilst offering infinitely superior colour accuracy and uniformity.
Although I am curious how the ASUS MX279H stands up to it since it’s slightly faster (5MS with the same ASUS Tracefree tech for increased smoothness) and standard 16:9 1080P but I wasn’t sure that it’s super thin body would be able to stand many African summers plus it’s not as adjustable as the PB248Q.
At R5600 from Rebeltech it’s well worth a look when you need your next PC monitor.