- So you like unboxings? You like monitors?
Well, how about I unbox, four monitors.
Hold on, I gotta catch up to the dialogue. They told me it was gonna be three.
- Four monitors! - All the Dell monitors that were launching this month, here they are.
A 24-inch, a 27-inch, a 32- inch,
and a bigger one, 34 wide. We're gonna get these open.
We're gonna compare them. And you're gonna figure out which one you wanna buy.
Come along. Do you like max? This one stepping right out of the box.
Okay. Some instructions, plastic bag that doesn't need to exist,
but now it's on this earth for 5,000 years. Displayport cable,
USB cable, power cable. HDMI cable.
Base. (bass drum beat) Ah, hmm.
I swear there's a robot that looks like that.
Ooh, oh, this is cool. Do I have to, yeah, I do.
I've gotta screw some stuff. I'm the only tool here required for this.
Look at these fins. Hold on, I'll show you.
Cool, I like the stylings. This is the baby one.
This is a gaming monitor. This is a 240 Hertz, fast IPS gaming monitor.
But it could totally be at your desk at an office.
But it's not boring either. Like this is like, striding the line between executive and gamer.
And I think that's perfect for a category or product where
increasingly, there's not really a much difference between gamer and workstation stuff.
All right, so let's see the other one's.
24 and a half inches is for, near-sighted people though.
I want a 27.
I'm pretty sure that's different. Yeah, that's different already. There's no fins on the back of it
and this nub is even different. It's actually smaller, somehow.
What is going on? Spoiler alert of what the back looks like.
Clicks in, no tools required. Oh no, I should've done this first.
Any new monitor these days that requires any more work than I what I just did,
is doing it wrong 'cause that is so easy and still so secure.
27-inch version. I like this stand more. It actually has a different finish too.
This one's more. I guess this is also plastic,
but it's just higher quality feeling than this.
All right, and then this one. Okay.
The first one was IPS. The next one is VA.
This third one, also VA.
It's almost identical except it's bigger. The first one, full HD.
The next two, 1440p. But there actually are some differences between
even number two and number three here.
Oh, big boy. Main differences between these two,
which are almost identical, other than the size, is the curve.
Number one, no curve at all. But on the VA ones
that are larger, they are curved. So the 27-inch has the 1500R curve,
which means if you made a whole circle out of them, the radius of that circle would be 1.5 meters.
This one has an 1800R curve. So it is less curvy, but it actually kinda looks more curvy
from the top, just by virtue of it being bigger. IMO.
Now let's get the ultra wide out of the box. (grunting)
(indistinct) David, I think we're gonna do this on the floor. I wonder if they're going to have a different, oh wow.
Surprise, it's actually the same.
I should just mix and match these stands. There will be none the wiser.
All these cables.
(groaning) You need a tall person for the family photo.
That is the fact, this is the 34-inch WQHD, chungus.
Like the other VA, this one also has an 1800R curve.
Like this. Oh my muscles.
(groaning) - [David] Shoulder press, please. - Nope, I'm done.
Okay, lots of choices. They're all sexy.
I'm sure they're all great. But which one's for you? Let's start with refresh rate.
240 Hertz, 165 Hertz,
144 Hertz. So they're all high refresh rate.
144 Hertz is a luxury for a lot of people. 165 is a nice bonus.
And if you're really competitive, there's 240. So this one's kind of on its own.
I would say these three are probably more comp comparable to each other.
Whereas this one is the only one that's a fast IPS. Not a TN.
Man, IPSs are just taking over the world. I don't even know if they're gonna make TN panels soon.
This is the motion gamery one. It's also the only one that has NVIDIA G-Sync compatible.
All of them are Free-Sync Premium. And you know, they're gonna have adaptive sync through HDMI.
Now it does not have the G-Sync hardware module in it.
That is the next tier up. All right, gamers, how about the GREY to GREY pixel response time?
Obviously, there's a lot of marketing hoopla that goes into this number.
But relatively speaking, Dell advertises the fast IPS
as having a one millisecond pixel response time, where the rest of these are advertised as having
two millisecond GREY to GREY pixel response time. No real rhyme or reason to the brightness.
This one's 400 nits. The VAs are 350 nits.
But keep in mind, they'll still have higher contrast 'cause VAs have deeper blacks.
And then this one, which is also VA, is back up to 400 nits.
These aren't gonna be great HDR monitors. They don't have direct backlights.
They're described as having, I think, a light at the top that gets diffused downward.
They are Vesa DisplayHDR 400 Certified, which is better than nothing,
but it's actually not much better than nothing. It's basically means, don't use this for HDR.
None of these have speakers. So, if for some reason you don't have a headset
or external speakers, this isn't gonna work for you. But they're not TVs, they're monitors.
You shouldn't expect them to have speakers. They're all pretty similar with their height adjustment
and their tilt. This ultra wide gets some amount of,
you know, you get your four degrees of rotation, I guess they just call it slant adjust,
just in case, you know, there's a piece of toast under one of your table legs. These ones don't really have that.
There's no swivel here. You can just turn the whole stand. But our friend over here, that,
which is interestingly, the most gaming one, with a different stand, does have swivel.
Actually, that's a bit of swivel. That is decent.
And also rotates 90 degrees, both ways.
Very nice. For I/O, these three models are the same.
And the ultra wide is a little different. Let's start with the smaller ones. Two HDMI 2.0 ports,
one Displayport 1.2. Remember, the newest one is 1.4.
And an audio headphone port. And of course there's the upstream USB port.
There's power, there's hub for the other two USBs. And there's two more over here.
Beside your headphone jack. Pretty good, is this a light? Ooh. Then on the ultra wide.
- [David] Nice. - Oh my God. We again have to HDMI 2.0 ports, one Displayport port.
But this time it's 1.4, which they needed to push all those pixels for the resolution.
Then you got four downstream USB 3.0 ports, one of which it supports charging,
and your upstream port and audio headphone port. I like this little, this curve that comes out.
These are nice looking. Feel?
I dunno. They don't feel super premium.
They're plastic, is what it is. How about the price though? You know, there's no bad products, just bad pricing.
$400, $409,
$500, $720.
Kind of interesting that these are only $10 apart. One being smaller, but faster.
The other being larger, and darker.
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.
But the power button is separated down here by itself,
which I like. 'Cause there's nothing worse than accidentally turning your monitor off
when you're tryna go through your on-screen display. See, it's detecting 239, 240 frames per second.
I can't make out that each one of these dots on the shift is actually like three little dots,
but I can see his shifter stick. I can see the dots in his eyes.
There is some blur on the trailing edge of the ship. But if I looked down compared to these ones,
yeah, these ones are way worse. 240 Hertz is nice to have people.
It's a very smooth. (David laughs) I like to use the pursuit camera one
to look at inverse ghosting if there's too much overdrive on
because the background is a different color. I don't see a lot of it at all, really no.
Sometimes on the leading edge you'll have like a white kinda halo.
Well, no, that looks pretty good. Let's play "Counter-Strike."
Wow, this is very crisp. Very crisp.
Now, I don't speak this language, but I pretty sure that if I did, I could read this.
Now, one thing that's gonna differ between the IPS and the VA panels,
is the GREY to GREY response time in shadows.
Sometimes you can see on edges like that inverse ghosting.
If you go like this really quickly, it'll, there'll be like a little white shadow that comes off it.
That looks pretty good. It's not immediately awful.
All right, this is more my speed in terms of the aspect ratio.
'Cause I use a 32 by nine in my desk. So I really, really,
really recommend an ultra wide for, whoa (laughs)
for productivity. Honestly, this feels like 60 now that I've had 240.
But, it's not. It's 144, which is supposed to be plenty fast for us.
I do feel like this one is a little more vibrant.
This is the only one of the lineup that they, they advertise the gamut coverage
in terms of the DCIP3 color space, whereas the other ones, they just,
"Oh, 99% coverage of sRGB."
So, it does have a bigger color gamut. It looks a little more like drab,
but probably more accurate. But I'm not assessing their color quality
'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.
This is of course, a more immersive experience with the larger screen and the curve,
provided you have a game that really supports it. Ideally your HUD would be closer in
like they have it in "Destiny." As someone who's not competitive,
I actually probably would take this Oh, I want this gun.
Yes, best gun in the game. Best gun in the game. - [David] hold down.
- [James] Best gun in the-- - [David] Yeah. - Well, that's how you use it.
- [David] Yeah. - Dave's getting mad watching me. Look how much money I have now.
With all that I could buy one of each of these. And maybe I should, because I can't decide what I want.
So that's Dell's 2021 lineup that we have for you today. Four different monitors,
four different price points, four different use cases. If you like these monitor videos,
check out some of our other videos where we focused on just one monitor in one video.
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,
where we go deeper.