Dell P2721Q 27 Inch 4K FHD, IP Ultra-Thin Bezel Monitor, USB-C, HDMI, DisplayPort, VESA Certified, Silver, Gray

Product Information

The Dell P2721Q is a superb choice if you want a 4K IPS monitor for professional, business, or general home use. it’s an accurate and efficient screen that works great in varying applications, including professional work such as editing and content creation. We like its design and its inclusion of USB-C connectivity, but 65 Watts is limited nowadays since it’s not always sufficient for high-spec laptops.

With its generous 27" (inches) size and 16:9 aspect ratio, it provides an immersive viewing environment. The storage altitude shows the maximum possible altitude for secure storing of the display. Storing it above this limit may result in damaging the display. The monitor features a spacious 27" (inches) display, providing an immersive viewing experience. What is the resolution of Dell P2721Q? This is normal behavior of the monitor. Dell consumer monitors are inspected at 150-lux ambient lighting (similar to typical office lighting). Dell UltraSharp and Gaming monitors are inspected with a tighter criteria of 70-lux ambient lighting (dimly lit room but not dark). Clarified text throughout as part of Test Bench 1.2, including adding text to the Console Compatibility boxes.The monitor offers a high-resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, delivering sharp and detailed visuals. What is the refresh rate of Dell P2721Q?

But the even worse news is that a 27" 4K display is a bad choice for any Mac. It's not a great choice for Windows either, but it's worse for Macs. The reason is macOS is designed for two "classes" of displays: standard displays with pixel densities of 100-110 ppi, and Retina displays with densities of 200-220 ppi -- because those are pixel densities that Apple's own displays use. A 27" 4K display is 163 ppi, which is right between the two standards that Apple designed for -- which means it will be a bad fit for both modes. If you have macOS treat it as a standard display, things will be way too small. But if you have macOS treat it as a Retina display, things will be way too large. The only remaining option is to have it use one of those modes and then apply post-render GPU scaling, meaning to render internally using either standard or Retina graphics assets and then shrink the rendered output down or blow it up. But that will introduce blurriness, which will be especially noticeable on text. This is why Apple's own 27" displays use 5K resolution, which results in a pixel density of about 200 ppi. Information of the number of pixels in a unit of length. With the decrease of the display size and the increase of its resolution, the pixel density increases. When changing the monitor’s resolution from Windows Display Settings, the image quality may not be good. Display mode changes from "Second screen only" to "Extended mode" after opening and closing the laptop LCD.

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In terms of blurriness on the Windows side, the fact that you can use a bunch of different scale factors like 125% rather than just standard (100%) and Retina (200%) like macOS is why 27" 4K isn't quite as bad for Windows. Windows offers all that extra flexibility -- but that ironically means that many Windows applications still don't handle scaling well. Apple's method of just defining a single additional scale factor (200%) meant that they could implement a design at an OS level that made it very simple for third party developers to build Retina support into their applications. Basically, developers just had to create "@2x" versions of all of their graphics assets to target that single new Retina density design, and the OS would load whichever set of assets was appropriate for the display type in use. Apple was able to do that because they control both the OS and the hardware -- or at least the hardware they care about. And the fact that developers could rapidly implement support for that single new setup is why even third party applications have worked so well on Retina displays for several years now. By comparison, Windows today still doesn't work nearly as well as macOS did several years ago because Microsoft has to try to accommodate a much wider range of hardware. 27" displays are available with resolutions of 1080p, 1440p, 4K, and 5K. So Microsoft couldn't just say, "Ok everybody, add support for just this one additional setup." They instead had to implement support for all of those different scaling percentages, but that meant there was no way to give developers "shortcuts" to support all of them. (Developers weren't going to create tons of different full sets of graphics assets.) And that has meant that Windows applications still don't always scale well. Some applications when scaled on a 27" 4K display look worse than they would look on a 27" 1440p display. And sometimes results are inconsistent within an application -- for example, an application's text might scale perfectly while graphics look terrible, or graphics might get scaled to be too large, or they might not scale and therefore look sharp but tiny. Or sometimes text gets scaled post-render rather than pre-render and therefore looks awful. This is all why even on the Windows side I tend to recommend 27" 1440p instead, which can comfortably be used at 100% scaling and therefore avoid all of these issues. 27" 4K gives you a pixel density high enough that you'll need scaling, but not quite high enough for a true Retina experience. You need 5K for that on a 27" display, but many systems today can't run 5K. DCI P3 is a color space, introduced in 2007 by the SMPTE. It is used in digital cinema and has a much wider gamut than the sRGB. However, the bigger downside for this monitor is its very high price, especially now that the 4K category is very competitive. Newer variants like the Dell S2722QC are more affordable even if the specifications are almost identical, although the P2721Q is much more accurate by default. It’s a good buy if you want solid performance, but it is not the most practical choice now.

Dell P2721Q Specifications

Dim or discolored video can be caused by the video cable, so try reseating the cable and swapping with a known good part. Information about the average amount of time, in which the pixels change from one color to another.

Information about whether the stand can be dismounted. Usually, this is required for wall mounting. The screen has a matte finish and it works pretty well in handling reflection, especially in moderately-lit rooms. However, you still can see glare when light shines directly on the display. The viewing angle of the IPS panel is impressive; From the 2 sides, I still can see the picture clearly with almost no change in color and brightness. Dimensions, weight and color Information about the dimensions and the weight of the specific model with and without stand as well as the colors, in which it is offered to the market. Width Ports: HDMI and DisplayPort connections are both requirements for any decent 4K monitor, and the best models also include a USB-C port that can send a display signal and charge a connected laptop at the same time. Great monitors should also include a USB 3.0 hub so that you can connect peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and webcams, since modern laptops come with fewer and fewer ports of their own.The maximum number of colors, which the display is able to reproduce, depends on the type of the panel in use and color enhancing technologies like FRC. We tested the monitor with the PS5's new variable refresh rate feature and confirmed that it's not compatible, since the PS5 only supports HDMI Forum VRR.