Dell UltraSharp U2720Q 27 Inch 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) LED Backlit LCD IPS USB-C Monitor (7GZ651)

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4.5 out of 5

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Customers like the picture quality, color, and value of the monitor. For example, they mention it's sharp, crystal clear, and provides plenty of real estate. Some are satisfied with brightness. That said, some complain about the response rate and disagree on quality, cable, and size.

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64 customers mention52 positive12 negative

Customers like the picture quality of the monitor. They say the text display is sharp, focus, and crisp. The colors are true, and the screen resolution meets their expectations. The monitor is bright, crystal clear, and perfect for viewing, proofing, and editing photographs. It's also a good monitor for viewing HDR content and playing games in HDR.

"...The picture quality especially on 4K videos are beautifully crisp and very color accurate and it comes calibrated straight out of the box...." Read more

"...Works great, have it in retina mode and the text is super sharp...." Read more

"...It's serviceable and it's a good monitor for viewing HDR content and playing games in HDR, but I definitely wouldn't recommend doing design work in..." Read more

"...The text is sharp, the colors are accurate enough for most of my use case scenarios, it is bright, and the refresh rate is enough for programming..." Read more

54 customers mention43 positive11 negative

Customers like the color of the monitor. They mention it's sharp, beautiful, and very color accurate. Some appreciate the deeper blacks and more vibrant oranges.

"...quality especially on 4K videos are beautifully crisp and very color accurate and it comes calibrated straight out of the box...." Read more

"...Works great, have it in retina mode and the text is super sharp. Vivid colors, screen strikes a nice balance between glare reduction and not being..." Read more

"...The USB-c input on these is sufficient for my needs and looks fantastic (even side by side with my 27" 5K iMac)..." Read more

"...Very small complaint though because it still is a great looking monitor, but those who get really distracted by small defects might get annoyed too..." Read more

19 customers mention15 positive4 negative

Customers like the value of the monitor. They say it's a good 4K monitor with reasonable price, and well worth it. They also appreciate the 27-inch screen size, which provides plenty of real estate for several apps open at once.

"...Cant beat the price for quality.I'm using it with the Mac Studio so I have several thunderbolt ports available...." Read more

"...for people looking for a flawless monitor for mastering on at a great price...." Read more

"...Sharp with beautiful colors at a bargain price. Works seamlessly with my MacBook Pro." Read more

"...Sharp picture. A little pricey, but I'm not an expert on monitors, so I could be wrong." Read more

13 customers mention13 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the brightness of the monitor. They mention that it has 4K resolution and the brightness is ok for them.

"...It covers +99% of sRGB and +97% of DCI-P3. The display gets plenty bright and can be used for just about any type of work...." Read more

"...the colors are accurate enough for most of my use case scenarios, it is bright, and the refresh rate is enough for programming and streaming..." Read more

"...The brightness is acceptable for me, and glare is rarely an issue.I would recommend this monitor for professional use...." Read more

"...In daytime but not in direct sun, the screen is bright and crisp with excellent color; at night it is so bright I put it in movie mode to subdue..." Read more

95 customers mention66 positive29 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the monitor. Some mention that it works great for video editing, programming, and design, and that it's a fantastic monitor. However, other customers say that it has a poorly built shell, and the screen detaches from the shell. The factory box was worn, faded, and torn at the corners.

"...kind of expensive for a monitor, but I think for the quality it's definitely worth it...." Read more

"Bought to use with MBP 16”. Works great, have it in retina mode and the text is super sharp...." Read more

"...Despite seeing comments regarding screen resolution, poorly built shell, and screen detaching from the plastic shell, I decided to purchase this..." Read more

"...but for day to day business tasks and editing photos for the web this works great!Cant beat the price for quality...." Read more

16 customers mention6 positive10 negative

Customers are mixed about the cable. Some like the USB-C cable, which greatly reduces the time it takes to connect the monitor to their laptop. They also appreciate the USB ports on the side and the ability to charge their laptop with the display cable. However, some customers report issues with the HDMI cable and USB-A port. They say they need an aux cable for audio in case they are connecting using the HDMI port to extend their laptop's display.

"...The item was defective (dead pixel and missing cable). Very disappointed!The monitor itself is very nice...." Read more

"...It is well worth the money. I love that it charges my laptop with the display cable. Has thin bezels that melt into the display...." Read more

"...torn at corners, as a box would look after much use AND the HDMI cord was missing!!!..." Read more

"...HDMI cable missing in the package and my computer doesn't have a DP port so have to try USB-C-C and USB-C-A...." Read more

15 customers mention10 positive5 negative

Customers are mixed about the size of the monitor. Some mention it's the perfect size, can fit two documents side by side, and has fairly small bezels. Others say that the 4K resolution at 100% makes everything so small and the interface text is too small.

"...this and set it up and everything was normal, great looking screen, fit well on a already in place mount system...." Read more

"...I’m fine with the fact that in retina mode the interface text is a bit larger but others may not be...." Read more

"...works great for programming and design* Looks sleek with fairly small bezelsDisliked:* buttons are very hard to press...." Read more

"...For me, this monitor is the perfect size. I love watching video content and playing games on it." Read more

13 customers mention3 positive10 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the response rate of the monitor. They mention that with USB-C connection, it doesn't work with 60Hz, the remedy was becoming inconsistent with producing functional results, and it does not work well on their Macbook Pro. It does not receive any signals from the computer, and can only do 30Hz refresh rate. Additionally, some customers report that the monitor has a significant delay when pressing a button and lagging behind the laptop screen when using the Dell Connect wifi.

"...Another issue is that with USB-C connection, it doesn't work with 60Hz (my laptop and the cable supports 60Hz) but only with 30Hz...." Read more

"...fantastic Then I started having severe problems with it lagging behind the laptop screen when using the Dell Connect wifi stream app...." Read more

"...The problem is that the refresh rate is 29 hz by using usb-c to usb-c. One of the solutions is to open the lid while connecting may solve this issue...." Read more

"...most of my use case scenarios, it is bright, and the refresh rate is enough for programming and streaming purposes...." Read more

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Rouben Branton Buyat

One of the best screens I've ever used

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023

Overall a beautiful monitor for daily use. When I was on the hunt for a monitor, this one in particular was on the top list of a lot of Youtubers, which was mainly the reason why I decided to get this. I always take influencers recommendation with a grain of salt because I never really know when they are getting paid, but I can attest that this monitor is really just amazing. The picture quality especially on 4K videos are beautifully crisp and very color accurate and it comes calibrated straight out of the box. However, if you plan to have this near bright open windows this might not be the best monitor for you since it doesn't get that bright, but anything else would be perfect. I got this for around $650, which is still kind of expensive for a monitor, but I think for the quality it's definitely worth it. I've had this monitor for a couple of years now and I don't think I plan on replacing this anytime soon.

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Good quality color calibrated 4K monitor

Clostridium

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2021

Bought to use with MBP 16”. Works great, have it in retina mode and the text is super sharp. Vivid colors, screen strikes a nice balance between glare reduction and not being too matte. Tiny bezel around so would be great for multi monitor setup.

The usb-c cable that came with it would only do 30 hz but the third party one I had bought worked just fine in 60 hz refresh and the power delivery works as well. So many different usb-c cables so make sure you read reviews to find one that will do what you want.

There are many articles on internet discussing pros and cons of different resolution and size combos for external monitors for OS X devices. I’m fine with the fact that in retina mode the interface text is a bit larger but others may not be. This is not something related to this product but rather to the nature of OS X. You can do scaled resolutions but that has tradeoffs.

This works just fine for my mixed office work and photo editing world.

3 people found this helpful

Great alternative for Mac Studio Display

Uri Davillier

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2022

I would not use this if you have to do strenuous pre-print photo editing but for day to day business tasks and editing photos for the web this works great!
Cant beat the price for quality.
I'm using it with the Mac Studio so I have several thunderbolt ports available.
The USB-c input on these is sufficient for my needs and looks fantastic (even side by side with my 27" 5K iMac)
The only drawback I could see is that if you only have thunderbolt output available, these monitors do not allow you to daisy chain them from one to the other (or if they do, I couldn't figure out how to do it)
If you need that functionality (fortunately I didn't) you're probably stuck spending the extra money for a thunderbolt monitor.
Nonetheless, these work great with the new Mac Studio and I am very pleased with the cost savings and quality.

10 people found this helpful

Amazing Monitor with a Few Flaws

Chris

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2020

This is display has a lot of great things, but a couple flaws keep it from being a perfect monitor, even for the price.

The panel and image reproduction in 30bit sdr mode is amazing. Colors look great out of the box, but it definitely is still going to require calibration if you want to seriously use it for design. It covers +99% of sRGB and +97% of DCI-P3. The display gets plenty bright and can be used for just about any type of work. And that's it, it's a great display and if you plan on using this for creative work or even just want a really good and good looking display, this is great!

So now for the flaws... each of them are small but add up, and maybe one of these might be a deal breaker for you depending on your use.
1. USB-C is not ThunderBolt 3: This is a real stinger for those who were hoping to have a single plug running from their computer to everything else. And the reason why this stings so hard is because to get a 4k@60Hz image to the display, the USB ports on the display can only run at USB 2.0 speeds. This means if you were hoping to plug in things like an Ethernet adapter, you should still run it through another port on your laptop. Additionally, this means you don't have access to any sort of daisy chaining which can be extremely useful for those running multiple monitors. I haven't tested running this monitor's USB-C port through a ThunderBolt Dock so I do not know if that is even a possibility. If you really want this functionality, Dell makes the UP2720, but that will run you about 3x the cost.
2. Color modes are pretty useless for most people: The out of box calibration is not good enough to make use of the color modes. I can't remember why, but the white point for the built in P3-DCI is very green looking. So the best way to get the best colors out of the monitor is to run it in the Color Temp 6500k mode and calibrate from there, you will still have access to the wide color space. (I'll get to HDR later)
3. Low quality bezel/frame: The display is surrounded by some of the softest plastic I've ever seen. maybe this is to make it better for pressing monitors together side by side but it's not a perfect look. The worst part is down by the buttons, a large number of the monitors will have a QC defect (mine included) where the frame feels like it's pulled a bit off from the body of the monitor which makes pressing on of the buttons just a little more irritating than the others. Very small complaint though because it still is a great looking monitor, but those who get really distracted by small defects might get annoyed too quickly.
4. WTF is going on with HDR: All but 1 HDR mode looks like total crap, and in that 1 HDR mode the color space shrivels up to only being inside sRGB. This is all while still running 30bit color. If you are hoping for a great HDR experience, this really isn't the monitor for you. It's serviceable and it's a good monitor for viewing HDR content and playing games in HDR, but I definitely wouldn't recommend doing design work in HDR on this monitor. Which is a let down for people looking for a flawless monitor for mastering on at a great price. The monitor can automatically switch when it detects HDR content, so let it do that, but keep the default in the simple wide color mode.
5. No Freesync: This never was supposed to be a gaming monitor, but this would have been greatly appreciated. The LG equivalent has this feature so I'm a bit shocked it wasn't included. Likely the next model will have it since it's not a costly addition to monitors at this point. This makes this significantly worse for gaming though, especially since it's locked at 60Hz.

And that's it, I ranted on the bad parts but that's because it's overall a really great monitor that I do recommend for a lot of people. I have a separate monitor to use for gaming, but besides that, this is my main display every day.

Notes for Windows Users:
1. If you plug in through the HDMI port you might need to go into your settings and enable full color range (limited color range sometimes is the default for HDMI connections)
2. To get 30bit (10bit per color) color, you need to enable that manually as well, with an NVIDIA GPU this will be in the NVIDIA Control panel.

183 people found this helpful

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Zaidie Z

Great monitor

Reviewed in Canada on August 18, 2022

Fast shipping from seller. Hooked up the monitor to a MacBook Pro M1 16 Max and it works flawlessly. Great color out of the box and the fact that you can charge your MacBook Pro and use the monitor’s ports as a hub is fantastic. I am using the monitor in scaled mode on Mac OS and it looks superb. This one’s a keeper!

5/5

Reviewed in Mexico on September 27, 2020

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Muy buena calidad del producto

Ace

A better 4K monitor with USB-C charging

Reviewed in India on July 16, 2020

This is a good 4k monitor from Dell. I am using it for my Macbook pro early 2013 model connected via the display port (mini display port to display port cable). Have been using Dell U2412 before, and this monitor is almost the same physical size (due to less bezels). Have tested with iPad pro 12.9 inch with USB-C and it works well with out any issues. The monitor can route the audio through both display port and USB-C (haven't tested HDMI but it should work).
There are three USB downstream ports and the single USB-C downstream port can charge devices, but only the USB-C and one USB port supports 2A, the other two have only 0.9A, which is enough to charge headphone but will not charge most of the mobile phones or tablets.

Pros:
* 4k IPS anti-glare panel
* 360 degree rotatable stand
* USB-C with 90W power output

Cons:
* Dell display manager not available for OSX (the support team is little rude in mentioning that they won't support OSX and are not intending to do in future)
* The volume can't be adjusted (on OSX) when the Dell U2720Q is selected as the output device (dell support also have the same reason that the only support Windows 10 and 8 at the moment)
* 27 inch is too small a size to run on the full resolution (3840x2160), but it's quite good at 2k (2560x1440)
* The stand is pretty strong but it does wobble when pressing the with the OSD controls, moving these buttons towards the center of the screen should have solved this
* There is only one display port but the product images it shows two.

26 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Great Monitor, really good resolution 3840x2160 DPI.

Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2024

I decided to switch to Dell Monitor. This monitor is great for the price. I love the 3840x2160 DPI. I really enjoy the extra USB inputs on the left side. I do feel safe with this Monitor. The adjustable stand is great.

Lenovo I still use, but less of.

LTinoco

Aparato descompuedto

Reviewed in Mexico on May 11, 2022