[Monitor] S2722DC 27" USB-C Monitor - $288 before tax - IPS QHD 75HZ - USB-C 3.2gen1 + DP Alt w/ 65W PD charging

Man I wish this had DP. I'm looking for 3 monitors between 27" - 32" for a sim racing rig. This is almost perfect except no DP. 144hz would be ideal but for the price can't have everything.

Decent price for a mid-range WFH monitor. USB-C should be standard these days.

The only downside for these "S" and "SE" series is the build and panel quality. The stand is also a bit cheaper at 110mm max height, meaning if you put your notebook in front of the monitor, it may not clear your notebook lid.

darkshot wrote: ↑ Seems like a bog-standard matte finish

Does that mean splinters or no splinters?

An adapter is like 15 bucks.

I have this. Bought it for the USB-C PD.

Paid 310 plus tax for it in November and I'm happy with it.

Thing's way too bright out of the box though and I had to turn it down to like 30% if I remember well. It was giving me headaches kinda bright.

Other than that, been working flawlessly on PD with my X1 Carbon.

Stand is fine, image is fine, quality is fine for my use case. I play my xbox series S and PS4 on it and it's good. Same for web browsing and word processing. I watch movies on it as well.

Only thing I dislike is the way the connections are positioned at the back. They're hard to reach without moving the monitor.

I'm looking for a 32"+ size.

MonsieurDealz wrote: ↑ I have this. Bought it for the USB-C PD.

Paid 310 plus tax for it in November and I'm happy with it.

Thing's way too bright out of the box though and I had to turn it down to like 30% if I remember well. It was giving me headaches kinda bright.

Other than that, been working flawlessly on PD with my X1 Carbon.

Stand is fine, image is fine, quality is fine for my use case. I play my xbox series S and PS4 on it and it's good. Same for web browsing and word processing. I watch movies on it as well.

Only thing I dislike is the way the connections are positioned at the back. They're hard to reach without moving the monitor.

Recently I discovered through some testing of different monitors that a big cause of my constant eye-strain was high minimum brightness. My work space can get a bit darker when I start working early in the morning and towards evening, so I usually need to adjust brightness accordingly, lower in the mornings, higher during the day when the sun is coming through the windows, and lower again later.

My monitor's minimum brightness was way too high (I think something like 75 cd/m²), and this was impacting my eye strain. I didn't realize this was the problem until I started testing out a few different monitors and realize some monitors that were essentially the same size and resolution as my monitor but for some reason weren't giving me any eyestrain.

Dell in particular was very good here, they seem to have lower minimum brightness levels then some of the others I tried, usually around 35cd/m². I also started paying attention to this on RTINGS as some monitor reviews they have a measurement for minimum brightness.

Kind of ironic that most people usually care about maximum brightness, I'm the oddball trying to find out what's the minimum brightness.

DrasticPig wrote: ↑ Recently I discovered through some testing of different monitors that a big cause of my constant eye-strain was high minimum brightness.

Same here. I work in the basement and literally had headaches from the new IPS monitor. Didn't realize till a week later that it was related to the screen brightness. Had to set it to 12% and it is good now.

Very tempting deal (Dell)! Yes, too bad it doesn't include DP and that's only available through the USB-C port by using an adapter or DP to USB-C cable. It does save on the cost of the monitor by not having a dedicated DP port since it can be achieved through a cable/adapter that's supplied by the user.

Good resolution and refresh, plus the multitude of adjustments available from the stand where you can use it vertically.

If anyone is looking for 4K, then they'll have to look elsewhere.

Thanks for the post, OP!

Rekuta also provides cashback on dell website.

I thought everyone is still boycotting Dell, because Dell didn’t ship their $79 Nintendo Switch.

Pretty good for people at the office who drag their laptop back and forth, no need to drag the power brick!

Many people use a USB-C dock that connects to their laptop via USB-C, and then connects to their display via DP/HDMI.

Putting USB-C into the monitor means you can eliminate the dock.

Well, unless you also use the dock to connect to USB peripherals such as your keyboard, mouse, webcam, etc.

This thing is very close to being a great all-in-one monitor+dock solution. It's just missing 1-2 more USB-A ports.

Oh well.

The PD part of the monitor is tempting. So I just bought it. I can use this to get rid of some cables.

McDealer wrote: ↑ Many people use a USB-C dock that connects to their laptop via USB-C, and then connects to their display via DP/HDMI.

Putting USB-C into the monitor means you can eliminate the dock.

Well, unless you also use the dock to connect to USB peripherals such as your keyboard, mouse, webcam, etc.

This thing is very close to being a great all-in-one monitor+dock solution. It's just missing 1-2 more USB-A ports.

Oh well.

But why would you want the monitor to be a dock? It would be a cable nightmare. They should make the stand a dock instead. That would sell like crazy.

yuprules wrote: ↑ Pretty good for people at the office who drag their laptop back and forth, no need to drag the power brick!

Most offices have docks and usbc monitor would be useless and more expensive.

What would be useful would be usbc powered monitors that also have data. Imagine only one usbc from monitor to dock or pc and that’s it

k847848 wrote: ↑ But why would you want the monitor to be a dock? It would be a cable nightmare. They should make the stand a dock instead. That would sell like crazy.

I didn't understand it until I accidentally bought one. I can never go back to a non-dock monitor now. You only need 1 usb c cable to connect to your laptop (or desktop). That single USB cable can charge your laptop, display to your monitor and drive data to USB ports out of your monitor.

So when you have wireless keyboard and mouse, you have 2 cables in total. One power cable to monitor, 1 usb c cable from monitor to your computer... That's it. Your dongles will go on the monitor USB ports.

Then if you want to change from work to home computer, you swap the usb c cable and you are fully changed using the same peripherals.

I also have my first monitor Daisy chained to second one using DP cable... So 3 wires in total.

k847848 wrote: ↑ Most offices have docks and usbc monitor would be useless and more expensive.

What would be useful would be usbc powered monitors that also have data. Imagine only one usbc from monitor to dock or pc and that’s it

100% this.

I have an Acer XV282K with a 65w USB-c PD with display, and 4 usb-a ports for accessories.

I thought the one USB-C cable would not only provide power and display, but also data access to the 4 ports, which means I can leave the keyboard and mouse connected to the monitor, but no go.

Still need a separate USB cable to the laptop for the USB-A ports. So not as useful as I hoped, since I still need 2 cables for everything.

Does anybody know what happened to the 43” ultrasharp monitor? I know it was there a month ago but now I find no trace of it on Dell.ca