it's no secret that I've got not only one but two Dell alien wear cuti OLED
monitors at home and when they reached out offering to sponsor this unboxing of
the brand new aw 2725 Q QD OLED monitor
I couldn't say no I just couldn't say no it's 4K 240 HZ just like my aw 3225 qf
at home but there's a couple major differences first of all if it wasn't
obvious this one's if it was curved this box would be a lot
bigger uh second of all it's only 27 in if you couldn't
guess that from the naming scheme and third they have completely redone the
base which is what I'm honestly kind of most excited about one it's not white
anymore which like hey the white looked good but I love blue look at we I'm
wearing blue I love blue and look at this nice dark blue they've got and then
if it wasn't obvious it's just a square there's no more big v-shaped legs
hanging out the edge of your desk you got this tiny footprint that you can
like put stuff on if you want to it's great I can't wait to open this thing up
and take a look at it and I'm not just saying that because it's sponsored what
else do we got cloth for your monitor love a good cloth NYC CES press tour if
it wasn't obvious we're filming this a little bit ahead of time if you couldn't
tell from the white box that is clearly unmarked in any way shape or form so
this is kind of a pre-production unit we might have issues I'm not too worried
about that uh we've got a usbb cable
we've got a DisplayPort cable HDMI
probably 2.1 or fixed rate link six
Ultra highp speeed what else we got in here C13 power
connector maybe no brick just go straight into the monitor we'll find out
in a moment once we get this eggshell off of here we got the rest of our stand
here oh man man I just love this metallic blue this isn't going to be for
everyone and I'll be the first person to admit that a really nice dark blue like
this might not work with your home as well as a white or a black does but as
someone who really misses the days of colored computers whether it's you know
green blue red yellow orange whatever I don't care I just want something that's
more interesting than black or white it's part of why I love RGB so much I
can just make it whatever color I want then we've got the rest of our monitor
which it looks great you guys will see in a sec I'm going to the old oh first
things first let's attach it to our base
who we're just going to click
clack I am absolutely in love with this
blue redesign I'm it's really too bad I
know a lot of you aren't going to like it for whatever reasons you're just going to be like I want black or white
but oh man I think it's gorgeous as for the stand you know it's got the good old
upy Downy ooh side to side swivel now on on the column which is
great pivot it either way and then you know you get tilted let's take a look at
the io we got our power two HDMI 2.1 one
with EC DisplayPort 1.4 usbb couple of
usba ports another usba a on the bottom along with a USBC that can do up to 15
watts power delivery my only complaint
it's nice that there's 15 wats of power delivery on the USBC I wish it was 90 or
even 60 please just let me charge a laptop or something otherwise pretty
good amount of IO there's just one more little change on the back here aside
from the color they're going with this kind of new uh aw30 ID with their glyph
iconography I think it looks neat just some Blobby shapes and lines and dots
but uh I don't know looks cool very aleny fits the brand and then one final
difference between my monitor at home and this guy here
is it's 27 in
while still being 4K 240 HZ and because
of that you're going to have this super high PPI of 166 pixels per inch now
we're obviously not getting into the pro xdr display um 200 plus PPI territory
this is not a Mac uh display but like
man 166 ppi is still pretty good and one
of the really nice things about having such ppi is text Clarity should be even
better than it was before before people complain about the fringing and stuff it
never really bothered me personally but it should be even less of a problem now
but I got to see that for myself after all how else am I going to know if I need to upgrade or
not one other change they made now that the base is nice and flat on the ground
here is the cable management is up a little higher so before it would be on
basically right on the bottom and it was pretty hard to get it your cables especially if it was a long a lot of
them and it was very thick uh they've also removed the cable cover that was on
the back I'm pretty cool with that because first of all I honestly don't
even have the back for the ultra wide anymore it's just gone uh and then my 32
in it's there but like I begrudgingly
put it back on it's just kind of annoying uh whereas you never really see
the back of the monitor anyway so I'm kind of glad they've removed it moment
of truth let's turn it on come on alien
wear you know you love me hey hey free
sync and gsync and it's Vasa adaptive sync certified oh this is nice it
actually makes you selected language from the start I you know like I said
pre-production model I can't guarantee that'll be in at the end but this is
nice it gives you a factory calibration report gives you gives me my service tag
you sure of accurate consistent I mean it doesn't tell me my oh wow this is I
really love this instead of including a little paper sheet they've got
everything digitally available for me select yes to enable USB charging when
you yes is selected power consumption will increase yeah that's fine I've
unboxed a lot of monitors and I don't think I've ever come across that once
it's literally just turn it on and do things and that's before we started
testing stuff like I think that's the first time that's ever happened as for
the UI it's otherwise pretty similar to
what they've had in the past let's check out some of our modes we got standard
FPS MOBA RPG Sports Creator which can or
you can change your color space to DCI P3 it should do 99% of P3 uh or srgb if
you so choose and then gamma you can change your gamma nice okay I'm not GNA
mess with gamma just in here what I'm going to do is go back and set this to
standard what kind of HDR modes we got movie HDR game HDR custom color HDR
custom color HDR is actually really cool if you can change this we're just going
to set ours to HDR Peak 1000 because that's my favorite mode because I love
having a thousand nits of brightness on an OLED and you get these tiny pin
pricks of light it's so nice and then
what else do we got Dolby Vision on off
bright dark I'm Gonna Keep it off just because not everything we're going to do
has access to DV but it's also got picture in picture PVP whatever you want
so even though it's a 27in monitor uh if you want to do side by side and make it
two monitors you can do that absolutely can that's pretty much it it's also got
a bunch of OLED care stuff uh pixel refresh self- diagnostic testing uh this
will just like all the other Alienware OLED monitors it'll come with a
threeyear warranty which includes burn in and image retention so if you're
really still afraid 3 years you're good
to go 240 htz hell yeah Peak brightness
993 10bit color RGB
HDR it's wild how much a display like this would have cost you even just 5
years ago even 10 years ago changing it to IPS with the same specs
it was really expensive if if it even existed 240 HZ IPS I don't know 4K
absolutely not specs have come a long
long way I've got a 32in version at home
and I've got to say personally because I like to kick back I sit back you know
put my feet up game from like back here 32 in is great for that but for the
average DES use if I'm sitting this close I think 27 is pretty perfect and
now that it's 4K and that ppi is just that little bit more dense it's really
nice it's so crispy God 166
PPI man that's good stuff and then let's
scroll this
up man that looks good again I'm not
super sensitive to color Fringe it's really nice having the feet not be like
out to here because now you can get like right in close if you really want to and
the foot's not sticking out I know you can put it on an arm but a lot of people
don't so being able to do this is pretty cool
okay let's game though how how does this thing look it's
240 hertz oh yeah oh yeah bonus weapon
the pp bison Counter-Strike already looks really good but you know what
makes it look even better a top quality
OLED monitor you do a flick it's
instantly clear I died right there but it wasn't the monitor's fault it was my
fault cuz I'm just bad you do a whip and your screen is instantly cleared up
because the motion pixel response time of OLED is just so wildly fast that even
if it's only 240 Herz and not 360 HZ
it's just cleared up instantly like you
see that was I know they're Bots guys I
know but that was like three dinks in a row when I first saw the third gen CTI
oleds uh and I played at 4K they had me
convinced I went home after going to San Jose and then I bought one I know they
game good and you know what I know the HDR good it's just the next generation
of cuti OLED but we got to take a look
as predicted it looks
amazing OLED and HDR go hand in hand mini LED and HDR look pretty good but
it's not quite the same micro LED whenever that does come out sure maybe
that'll win but I think that monitors at least it's going to be a long time
coming uh whereas right now oleds are here and they are coming down in price
I'm going to tell you the price before we get to the Labs results because guess
what this thing is $8.99 I know $900 is still a lot of
money for a lot of people however it's
also a lot of monitor 4K 240 OLED
Dolby Vision USBC charging it's really
hard to pick the absolute best monitor
for yourself these days but you're no
longer having to spend unless you're getting something really Niche upwards
of you know $2,000 to get a normal display with just
top tier specs and how does it test well I'll
tell you it tests pretty good as for color accuracy in SDR we measured an
average Delta e 2000 of 0.66 with a Max of 1.38 in Creator mode
out of the box that's phenomenal as for
HDR in Peak 1000 mode we measured a very
solid average Delta eitp of just 6.86
with a Max of 2.93 that is very accurate for HDR
content and set to that mode it reaches Dell's claim of 1,000 nits Peak
brightness as for SDR it only Peaks at around 2 270 nits at all window sizes
which isn't super bright but it's also pretty typical for SDR content they also
reached all of their color gamut claims with 99.9% in srgb 99.3% in P3 and 76.4%
in BT 2020 and then coming back to gaming with our pixel response times we
measured a grade gray of 0.1 milliseconds with a Max of
0.6 and as for latency it was 6
milliseconds over the theoretical perfect so it's just solid at 240 HZ
I've said it before and I'll say it again being an early adopter sucks it's
already already updated I love my current monitor 32 in
4k that's the right fit for me but this
stand Alienware why' you have to come out with this now why couldn't you come
up with this one or two generations ago I just love the blue so much more
honestly if you want a really top tier monitor it's hard to go wrong with
anything these days I also said it before that I'm really happy to see the
prices come down on these things and I'm going to say it again because for a 4K
240 HZ OLED to be under the $1,000 price
point that's just kind of wild and I can't wait to see what the rest of CES
and the future for displays holds this year 2025 thanks for watching I'm PL
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