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- So you like unboxings? You like monitors?

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Well, how about I unbox, four monitors.

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Hold on, I gotta catch up to the dialogue. They told me it was gonna be three.

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- Four monitors! - All the Dell monitors that were launching this month, here they are.

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A 24-inch, a 27-inch, a 32- inch,

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and a bigger one, 34 wide. We're gonna get these open.

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We're gonna compare them. And you're gonna figure out which one you wanna buy.

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Come along. Do you like max? This one stepping right out of the box.

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Okay. Some instructions, plastic bag that doesn't need to exist,

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but now it's on this earth for 5,000 years. Displayport cable,

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USB cable, power cable. HDMI cable.

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Base. (bass drum beat) Ah, hmm.

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I swear there's a robot that looks like that.

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Ooh, oh, this is cool. Do I have to, yeah, I do.

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I've gotta screw some stuff. I'm the only tool here required for this.

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Look at these fins. Hold on, I'll show you.

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Cool, I like the stylings. This is the baby one.

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This is a gaming monitor. This is a 240 Hertz, fast IPS gaming monitor.

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But it could totally be at your desk at an office.

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But it's not boring either. Like this is like, striding the line between executive and gamer.

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And I think that's perfect for a category or product where

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increasingly, there's not really a much difference between gamer and workstation stuff.

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All right, so let's see the other one's.

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24 and a half inches is for, near-sighted people though.

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I want a 27.

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I'm pretty sure that's different. Yeah, that's different already. There's no fins on the back of it

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and this nub is even different. It's actually smaller, somehow.

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What is going on? Spoiler alert of what the back looks like.

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Clicks in, no tools required. Oh no, I should've done this first.

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Any new monitor these days that requires any more work than I what I just did,

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is doing it wrong 'cause that is so easy and still so secure.

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27-inch version. I like this stand more. It actually has a different finish too.

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This one's more. I guess this is also plastic,

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but it's just higher quality feeling than this.

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All right, and then this one. Okay.

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The first one was IPS. The next one is VA.

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This third one, also VA.

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It's almost identical except it's bigger. The first one, full HD.

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The next two, 1440p. But there actually are some differences between

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even number two and number three here.

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Oh, big boy. Main differences between these two,

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which are almost identical, other than the size, is the curve.

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Number one, no curve at all. But on the VA ones

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that are larger, they are curved. So the 27-inch has the 1500R curve,

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which means if you made a whole circle out of them, the radius of that circle would be 1.5 meters.

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This one has an 1800R curve. So it is less curvy, but it actually kinda looks more curvy

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from the top, just by virtue of it being bigger. IMO.

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Now let's get the ultra wide out of the box. (grunting)

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(indistinct) David, I think we're gonna do this on the floor. I wonder if they're going to have a different, oh wow.

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Surprise, it's actually the same.

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I should just mix and match these stands. There will be none the wiser.

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All these cables.

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(groaning) You need a tall person for the family photo.

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That is the fact, this is the 34-inch WQHD, chungus.

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Like the other VA, this one also has an 1800R curve.

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Like this. Oh my muscles.

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(groaning) - [David] Shoulder press, please. - Nope, I'm done.

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Okay, lots of choices. They're all sexy.

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I'm sure they're all great. But which one's for you? Let's start with refresh rate.

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240 Hertz, 165 Hertz,

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144 Hertz. So they're all high refresh rate.

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144 Hertz is a luxury for a lot of people. 165 is a nice bonus.

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And if you're really competitive, there's 240. So this one's kind of on its own.

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I would say these three are probably more comp comparable to each other.

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Whereas this one is the only one that's a fast IPS. Not a TN.

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Man, IPSs are just taking over the world. I don't even know if they're gonna make TN panels soon.

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This is the motion gamery one. It's also the only one that has NVIDIA G-Sync compatible.

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All of them are Free-Sync Premium. And you know, they're gonna have adaptive sync through HDMI.

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Now it does not have the G-Sync hardware module in it.

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That is the next tier up. All right, gamers, how about the GREY to GREY pixel response time?

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Obviously, there's a lot of marketing hoopla that goes into this number.

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But relatively speaking, Dell advertises the fast IPS

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as having a one millisecond pixel response time, where the rest of these are advertised as having

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two millisecond GREY to GREY pixel response time. No real rhyme or reason to the brightness.

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This one's 400 nits. The VAs are 350 nits.

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But keep in mind, they'll still have higher contrast 'cause VAs have deeper blacks.

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And then this one, which is also VA, is back up to 400 nits.

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These aren't gonna be great HDR monitors. They don't have direct backlights.

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They're described as having, I think, a light at the top that gets diffused downward.

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They are Vesa DisplayHDR 400 Certified, which is better than nothing,

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but it's actually not much better than nothing. It's basically means, don't use this for HDR.

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None of these have speakers. So, if for some reason you don't have a headset

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or external speakers, this isn't gonna work for you. But they're not TVs, they're monitors.

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You shouldn't expect them to have speakers. They're all pretty similar with their height adjustment

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and their tilt. This ultra wide gets some amount of,

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you know, you get your four degrees of rotation, I guess they just call it slant adjust,

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just in case, you know, there's a piece of toast under one of your table legs. These ones don't really have that.

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There's no swivel here. You can just turn the whole stand. But our friend over here, that,

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which is interestingly, the most gaming one, with a different stand, does have swivel.

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Actually, that's a bit of swivel. That is decent.

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And also rotates 90 degrees, both ways.

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Very nice. For I/O, these three models are the same.

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And the ultra wide is a little different. Let's start with the smaller ones. Two HDMI 2.0 ports,

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one Displayport 1.2. Remember, the newest one is 1.4.

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And an audio headphone port. And of course there's the upstream USB port.

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There's power, there's hub for the other two USBs. And there's two more over here.

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Beside your headphone jack. Pretty good, is this a light? Ooh. Then on the ultra wide.

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- [David] Nice. - Oh my God. We again have to HDMI 2.0 ports, one Displayport port.

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But this time it's 1.4, which they needed to push all those pixels for the resolution.

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Then you got four downstream USB 3.0 ports, one of which it supports charging,

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and your upstream port and audio headphone port. I like this little, this curve that comes out.

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These are nice looking. Feel?

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I dunno. They don't feel super premium.

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They're plastic, is what it is. How about the price though? You know, there's no bad products, just bad pricing.

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$400, $409,

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$500, $720.

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Kind of interesting that these are only $10 apart. One being smaller, but faster.

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The other being larger, and darker.

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I don't know, I'm kinda thinking that this is the one.

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in just 15 seconds. Oh, they actually have, they have buttons going up the side here for the OSD.

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But the power button is separated down here by itself,

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which I like. 'Cause there's nothing worse than accidentally turning your monitor off

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when you're tryna go through your on-screen display. See, it's detecting 239, 240 frames per second.

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I can't make out that each one of these dots on the shift is actually like three little dots,

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but I can see his shifter stick. I can see the dots in his eyes.

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There is some blur on the trailing edge of the ship. But if I looked down compared to these ones,

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yeah, these ones are way worse. 240 Hertz is nice to have people.

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It's a very smooth. (David laughs) I like to use the pursuit camera one

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to look at inverse ghosting if there's too much overdrive on

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because the background is a different color. I don't see a lot of it at all, really no.

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Sometimes on the leading edge you'll have like a white kinda halo.

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Well, no, that looks pretty good. Let's play "Counter-Strike."

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Wow, this is very crisp. Very crisp.

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Now, I don't speak this language, but I pretty sure that if I did, I could read this.

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Now, one thing that's gonna differ between the IPS and the VA panels,

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is the GREY to GREY response time in shadows.

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Sometimes you can see on edges like that inverse ghosting.

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If you go like this really quickly, it'll, there'll be like a little white shadow that comes off it.

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That looks pretty good. It's not immediately awful.

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All right, this is more my speed in terms of the aspect ratio.

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'Cause I use a 32 by nine in my desk. So I really, really,

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really recommend an ultra wide for, whoa (laughs)

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for productivity. Honestly, this feels like 60 now that I've had 240.

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But, it's not. It's 144, which is supposed to be plenty fast for us.

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I do feel like this one is a little more vibrant.

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This is the only one of the lineup that they, they advertise the gamut coverage

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in terms of the DCIP3 color space, whereas the other ones, they just,

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"Oh, 99% coverage of sRGB."

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So, it does have a bigger color gamut. It looks a little more like drab,

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but probably more accurate. But I'm not assessing their color quality

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'cause I don't have my measurement tools and this was just an unboxing. Yeah, it's not as clear as the 240, that's for sure.

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This is of course, a more immersive experience with the larger screen and the curve,

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provided you have a game that really supports it. Ideally your HUD would be closer in

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like they have it in "Destiny." As someone who's not competitive,

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I actually probably would take this Oh, I want this gun.

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Yes, best gun in the game. Best gun in the game. - [David] hold down.

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- [James] Best gun in the-- - [David] Yeah. - Well, that's how you use it.

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- [David] Yeah. - Dave's getting mad watching me. Look how much money I have now.

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With all that I could buy one of each of these. And maybe I should, because I can't decide what I want.

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So that's Dell's 2021 lineup that we have for you today. Four different monitors,

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four different price points, four different use cases. If you like these monitor videos,

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check out some of our other videos where we focused on just one monitor in one video.

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Kind of less spread out. Maybe you like those. And if you really wanna deep dive, head over to our sister channel, Linus Tech Tips,

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where we go deeper.