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A growing number of graphics professionals, gamers, and all around power users are turning to WQHD (Wipatagonia south america locationde Quad High Definition) monitors as cost conscious alternatives to pricey 30 inch panels, and ASUS is all too happy to oblige. The PB278Q we re looking at here slips into ASUS Professional lineup and brings with it a 27 inch PLS (Plane to Line Switching) panel with a 2560x1440 display and LED backlighting. At around $700 street, it s one of the least expensive 27 inpatagonia store locationsch WQHD monitors available, yet it boasts some posh features, like swivel support, the ability to rotate into portrait mode, and 100 percent sRGB gamut fidelity
One thing to keep in mind with a monitor this size is that if you plan on gaming, you ll need a relatively powerful graphics card to drive the display s pixels at the panel s native resolution. That s not something the CAD crowd necessarily has to worry about, but if your primary objective is to blow up bad guys in virtual worlds in full graphical splendor, be mindful of tpatagonia pro purchase login3he 2650x1440 resolution for optimal image quality. Though any LCD can scale down to lower resolutions, things just won t look as sharp as native res.
As luck would have it, there s a bit of an arms race going on between AMD and NVIDIA, so even if you don t own graphics card capable of pushing a WQHD display, you can upgrade to one without having without putting yourself in the poor house. Either way, the Samsung built PLS panel on board the PB278Q is precisely the main attraction here. It packs four timespatagonia jacket discount the number of pixels as 720p HD, and it s supposed to be on par with those coveted IPS (In Plane Switching) panels that typically carry a price premium. For the sake of comparison, at the time of this writing, the least expensive 30 inch IPS monitor on Newegg sells for nearly $500 more, while the most expensive one runs nearly three times as much as the PB278Q.
Paper specs and pricing advantages are both fine and dandy, but at the end of the day, image quality and performance plays the biggest role in determining a monitor s worth. Can the PB278Q stand up to our battery of visual qualipatagonia pro purchase login0ty tests? It s time to find out.
The PB278Q is kind of an odd mix of feature additions and subtractions. It has built in stereo speakers, plenty of ports, and a flexible stand that supports rotate, tilt, pivot, and height adjustments, but there s no USB hub or media card reader built into the panelpatagonia pro purchase login2. Perhaps thepatagonia pro purchase loginy were sacrificed for a lower price tag, though we d argue a graphics professional would likely benefit more from those items than the pair of speakers jammed inside, and gamers are likely to wield a high quality headset or a bookshelf system anyway.
One other thing to note is the weight. Even though the PB278Q is not much smaller than a 30 inch panel, it s significantly lighter than the larger monitors we ve played with.
Wow this thing is absolutely gpatagonia outlet store elizabethorgeous. but is the $700 price tag worth it when I seen a couple ASUS and other branded 27 inch monitors for almost half the price at $300 $400 with the same specs?
I only recently started to explore the difference in panel types and I can say I ever had viewing angles be an issupatagonia pro purchase login1e on TN monitors or even known that I had owned IPS monitors while people claim patagonia arizona houses for saleIPS looked so much better than TN color wise. (And they were the Samsung/Dell monitors at my families advertising agency where video and photography editing was done so they weren lower tier in terms of quality and brand)
Is there really that much of a difference between IPS, TN and the new PLS type shown in this monitor?
I may be buying one of these, if I can just find a good deal on a graphics card that would allow me to run it at full resolution. I was, however, encouraged to see that the price of the 27 ASUS monitor described here is lower than that of, say, the older Samsung 27 monitors with similar specs ; thus I hopeful thapatagonia everlong review appealt even in the monitor field we shall see increasing performance and sinking prices. On the other hand, the patagonia everlong review htcfact that desktopatagonia everlong review internetps seem to have gone out of fashion despite the fact that, or perhaps just because old fuddie duddies like myself prefer them means that competition in the monitor market doesn seem to be particularly sharp. Still, hope springs eternal I love to see an affordable 27 monitor with a 4096 x 2560 resolution before I depart for a better (or as the case may be, worse) world.
Ahh, you talking about some serious resolution there man. I know theres a few technology experts pushing for the standard to be raised 2048 x 1536, but i dont see us getting anywhere close to 4096 x 2560 at an affordable cost for quite some time.
Most of these high res monitors are reserved for medical or design etcpatagonia guide jacket ladies. I used to purchase parts used in medical equipment repair, one 21 , high resolution, black and white, lcd monitor used in identify abnormalities during brest exams cost over $20,000. At least we aren paying those prices!
I note that Sharp is soon going to introduce a 32 monitor with a resolution of 3840 2160 pixels to the Japanese market. Alas, at a price of, as I understand it, some 450000JPY, it costs about five times as much as I be willing/can afford to to pay, but if other manufacturers follow this lead (OK, I know that Eizo RadiForce GX1030CL, a 30 monitor with a resolution of 4096 x 2160 pixels has been on the market for years, but it doesn seem to have inspired any followers and with a prices some 7 times that of the Sharp, wasn of interest for most of us), perhaps we can see prices sink to more reasonable levels within a couple of years.
