It weirdly lacks a power source, but this monitor is a classy piece of work-from-anywhere kit
What’s less wonderful is if you use a lower-powered PSU, it appears to wake, then puts a message on the screen about Power Saving and turns itself off.If the laptop you use supports PD mode over USB-C, the monitor can be driven with a single USB-C cable. But doing that assumes that the battery in the laptop can handle that level of demand or is connected to mains power.
One of these options is HDR, which can be on or off. The screen technology here is IPS with a maximum brightness well below any HDR standards, and it lacks zoned backlighting. Therefore, HDR on this screen isn’t like it can be on an OLED or Quantum Dot TV.Above average colour balance and accuracyOnce over the hurdle of finding a power supply with enough angry pixies to get this monitor to display, using it is simplicity itself.
In testing, it didn’t quite hit its quoted 400nits, but it got close, and the contrast is almost precisely on the 1,000:1 ratio.The only real weakness of this design is that the backlight is heavily centre-biased, and given how thin the panel is and not having a zonal backlight model is somewhat predictable.
The HDR mode isn’t wonderful, mainly because the brightness and contrast levels aren’t near what they need to be to deliver true HDR. Oddly, in Windows 11, turning HDR on makes this screen look much worse than it does with it turned off, so avoid that. As the viewable height of this monitor is about 21cm, that would make the optimal viewing distance as being just 30cm, give or take. If that seems close to you, then you’ll need a larger monitor than this.
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