Professional’s Ranking
Professionals
- Skinny body
- Sharp and stress-free picture high quality
Cons
- USB ports tough to entry
- No high-speed USB ports
Our Verdict
With the GW2790QT, BenQ has a sexy monitor that’s an excellent mixture of worth and efficiency for workplace staff.
Worth When Reviewed
$299.99
Finest Costs Right this moment: BenQ GW2790QT
$279.49
$279.49
$279.99
$279.99
A pointy, stress-free picture, adequate connectors, and good ergonomics are significantly essential for an workplace monitor. If you wish to join a MacBook, you additionally want a robust built-in energy provide. The GW2790QT from BenQ gives these primary necessities and extra.
BenQ GW2790QT: Show and options
The GW2790QT’s 27-inch IPS display screen gives a most decision of 2K (2560 by 1440 pixels) and a brightness of 350 nits. The colour gamut corresponds to 99 p.c of sRGB and particular colour modes resembling gaming, M-E book for matching the MacBook, or movie may be chosen relying on use. Whereas these specs don’t handle the wants of inventive professionals, they’re satisfactory for basic workplace use. We did measure it with a Spyder X2 colour calibrator and the outcomes are spectacular. The colour gamut is nice and the homogeneity decreases considerably in direction of the sides. That is typical for a monitor that’s not optimized for picture modifying and on this worth vary.
Anybody sitting in entrance of the monitor quite a bit will recognize its “Low Blue Light Plus” know-how, which filters out blue-violet radiation dangerous to the eyes, or flicker-free know-how for a flicker-free picture. BenQ additionally gives computerized adjustment of the display screen brightness. A show coating is designed to scale back glare.
To optimize ergonomics, the GW2790QT may be rotated 20 levels in any route, tilted 5 levels downwards and 20 levels upwards, the peak may be adjusted by 110 millimeters and the complete display screen may be rotated 90 levels into portrait format.
BenQ GW2790QT: Ports, audio
Along with HDMI, DisplayPort 1.2 and USB-C can be found for connection to the pc. The USB-C port offers 65 watts of energy supply for the MacBook. One other DisplayPort is out there for connecting a second monitor. The built-in hub gives three USB 3.2 ports and one USB-C port with 5 gigabits per second velocity. In observe, information switch charges of round 380MBps (write) and 390MBps (learn) had been recorded when examined with a LaCie Rugged Mini SSD.
The ports require just a little little bit of effort to succeed in since they’re situated close to the middle again of the show. BenQ provides an HDMI and a USB-C cable–monitor is white, and the cables are sadly black.
The GW2790QT additionally gives built-in audio system and a microphone. Optimized for video conferencing, the audio system are geared up with a noise filter and the microphone with noise cancellation. A USB-C connection to the Mac is required to be used.
A sequence of buttons are situated on the backside right-hand edge for operation. For the built-in microphone, for the noise filter of the audio system, for Low Blue Gentle Plus, a 5-way management for the menu, and the on/off button.
The show additionally has a really sensible Yogi Pad for an extra $20. It’s a set of three rubber pads that match completely into the recess on the bottom. One serves as an iPhone holder with cable administration, one as a common shelf with an image stand and the third is especially enjoyable and consists of studs for sticking constructing blocks. Small figures or shapes may be hooked up right here utilizing Lego bricks, for instance. The Yogi Pad Set prices 49 euros.
Must you purchase the BenQ GW2790QT?
If you happen to don’t have to edit photographs or movies professionally and primarily write texts, work with spreadsheets, or create displays, you don’t want a top-class monitor and the GW2790QT can be just right for you. It has a pointy, stress-free picture, and it could actually present sufficient energy for a MacBook Air. The USB-C hub isn’t the quickest however it’s useful.
This text initially appeared on Macwelt and was translated by Roman Loyola.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macwelt and was translated and localized from German.