This “Alinek“ definitely deserves your attention. After several months of operation, he convinced me that it was the right choice - it just used really well. (I use about 50% for offsets and the internet, 30% movies, 20% games). I would like to catch something, but these are just trifles and ghosting / blur in the games I saw at ALL so-called “high-end monitors“. My rating is 95%.
I tried all of its major Top competitors in both 27 and 32 inches (Asus pg279qm, ASUS PG329Q, Samsung Odyssey G7, Acer XB323UGP and 27 versions) and stayed with this in the end. For example, competing monitors tapped as they typed on the keyboard; had poor or no USB ports available; anti-user OSD menu with lengthy preset switching and the impossibility of user resetting important values in them; strangely filed HDR; backlight bleeding; blur and ghosting at all.
- Games: the least ghosting and blur showed the Samsung G7, then the Asus PG279qm, the third place o fous belongs to this Dell AW2721D.
- Office: This is where Dell leads with an overview. The eyes do not hurt, the text is beautifully legible. Samsung was bent by disappointment (the bend is not the same everywhere, it is “flattened“ on the edges and e. g. in Excel you look at 2x bent horizontal cell lines).
- Media / Colors: I' m not a graphic designer or editor, the colors just have to fit me. In the reviews, they warned against burnt colors, but I don' t feel that way. Either they modified it with new firmware, or I simply have a well-tuned piece. The colors are in Standard mode, just for reading / work and a quick series with food, in the preset presets for games, “RTS“ is only colored in RTS mode. Everything can be fine-tuned according to yourself in up to three user-reserved presets.
- HDR: the monitor has the Nvidia Ultimate class, ie. that you can have HDR turned on along with G-sync. You will probably only use it in a few correctly made games, but then the experience is worth it. HDR is turned on only by clicking in Windows, there is no need to hunt anything in the OSD menu. Here I would say that in the beauty of the presentation, it closely shares the 1st place with the Samsung G7, on the contrary, the most expensive tragedy was the most expensive Asus PG279.
- Movies: I have no reservations. It' s not for home theater, but you can' t expect that from the IPS display. For some, black may be a little black, but honestly. if you are a normally demanding person and you come across the right piece without crazy backlight bleeding, you will not have any reservations. The tragedy in this regard was the Asus PG329Q, where dark scenes essentially dazzled: ).
- Lighting: A nice bonus is the lighting of the stand, which even in a dark room, for example. when watching a movie, it creates eye-friendly diffused light behind the monitor. A great idea is a touch light on the bottom edge, pointing straight at the table in front of the monitor. The colors of both lights can be freely changed in the menu or via the utility.
Alínek AW2721D is not purely excellent, but it is honestly above average in everything. If that' s exactly what you like, don' t look any further.