BenQ BL2420PT Color Accurate Design Monitor 24 QHD 1440p | 100% Rec.709 & sRGB | IPS | Delta E≤3 | Calibration Report | AQCOLOR | Ergonomic | Speakers | DisplayPort | USB Hub

I can promise you that there is NOT another monitor on the market—in this price range—that has all the features that this one has. I purchased the BL2420PT model and it is incredible. 100% sRGB coverage, 2560 x 1440, and the monitor itself has multiple hinges and points of articulation, for maximum adjustments. I work as a graphic designer and whenever I plug the monitor into my macbook, it looks absolutely stunning. You really cant tell the difference in the picture between this monitor and an apple one. Definitely recommend!!

Have this attached to a new Mac Book Pro M1. Works great as a second monitor. Colors look exactly the same as the laptops color. Great build and plenty bright enough.

For some inexplicable reason, Apple only put 1 Thunderbolt 3 controller in the 2021 iMac. so if you attach an LG ultra fine monitor, it grabs both channels to get the bandwidth it needs, causing the second port to turn off. This monitor supports DP 1.4 and the LG only supports DP 1.2. If you want to run two high resolution monitors on your 2021 iMac, this is about the only way youll get that done. plug in and go... thunderbolt 3 high bandwidth cables is all you need. as for the monitor, its beautiful. youll have to tweak the color settings a bit to get it to match the temperature of the iMac which is a bit colder (more awards 6500k and the BenQ defaults a bit more fun the middle around 4000k... but the BenQ displays the entire Rec709 color space, and does it beautifully. Great monitor. Great price.

I REALLY wanted to like this. I am used to an Eizo, or before that, Barco. I need color accurate REAL world representation of what will be printed. I do work for high end tv, streaming and theatrical advertising clients. The files I deal with have a bunch of effect and adjustment layers over composited images. It might be fine for single image photographs, but when I deal with crazy layouts created by art directors and designers that use 15 layers to create a single gradation, I have to see what kind of crazy banding or color shifts that I need to fix. I COULD NOT get this thing dialed in. I tried for 3 weeks to get it to show me accurate details, especially in the darks. This thing STRUGGLES with 3/4 tones. If I brightened the screen settings, I would get banding that wasnt there, and if I darkened the screen to reduce the banding, I could not see the difference between the 90-95% blacks and 100% black. A client pointed out to me that the finish that I was working on had issues with inconsistencies in the blacks. Once I switched back to my Eizo, it was clear as day. Maybe I needed to get a model with hardware calibration, but I wasnt going to take that chance and buy another BenQ when I knew what I was going to get with an Eizo. Ended up returning this and going with what I know works.

The picture is OK, although LCD seem to glow. The main issue I had is that this monitor has different resolution based on different view settings. GIS processing and writing is my main job, and many times I need to switch viewing angles from standard view to vertical view. However, this monitor fail to maintain the same resolution for vertical view (1080p for 90 degree angle), which is pointless of having a 1440p monitor. This is really sucks. I ended up returning it and ordered U2518 from Dell.

BenQ must have fixed all the driver issues - I opened the box, fit everything together, and connected perfectly with no issues on the screen. I use the monitor for business purposes (spreadsheets, etc.) not gaming and I find that with enlarging your text everything looks crisp and clear.

This is the most color accurate monitor Ive ever owned, and that is straight out of the box without calibration. The rest of the features are just gravy. 4K is the perfect resolution for 32 inches. For gaming its amazing; youll see whatever the developers wanted you to see (only caveat is HDR is not the best so Id turn it off, also 60hz is the highest refresh rate). On top of that, even though this is not meant as a gaming monitor the input lag is very small. Ive had gaming monitors that tout their short input lag which feel the same as this. On top of that, the number of inputs as well as a USB hub built-in makes this an amazing workstation monitor. Even more wonderful is the PIP and PxP or PxPxPxP (thats right you could have up to 4 inputs in a grid!) makes this a multi tasking dream. The stand is solid and feels premium and has a nice range of movement. My current setup is: PC connected with DisplayPort to enjoy RGB 10-bit 4:4:4. 60hz is fine for me because many games with raytracing at 4K wont go too high above 60 fps anyway. Fire TV Stick 4K HDMI 2.0 to get streaming services at 4K (Streaming services in PC havent caught up to the digital rights the streaming devices have yet except for Netflix if you buy a codec from the Windows store. Also, the chroma subsampling of all streams and even Blu-ray is 4:2:0 as far as Ive learned so HDMI 2.0 is plenty as far as video goes.) The monitor has speakers and audio out via 3.5mm which go into my speakers. PS3 into the other HDMI port In conclusion, I couldnt be happier about using this monitor. All you need to do is make sure your devices meet the specs in order to fully use what this monitor is capable of. The only improvements would be higher refresh rate and better HDR (but an OLED might be more suitable for that).

Ive had this monitor for a few days. Will review again in a month if theres any changes. The good: - They include a cable for pretty much everything. They even included a thunderbolt 3 cable for Macbook Pro 16 so I didnt have to order one from Apple (which costs $39 before tax). Just the cables are probably worth $150-200. - Good choice of external ports, has USB-C support - Solid metal base and stand, not wobbly, looks premium and not cheap - The stand gives you nice 360 degree adjustment The not so great - Although it provides charge to your macbook via thunderbolt, its not enough to power my MBP 16 so the laptop will drain power slowly. I had to also connect my regular charger. Maybe not an issue for less demanding macbooks. - Would have liked more than 2 USB-A ports - The speakers sound really bad. My iMac 2015 has much better sounding speakers. This is not a big issue for me because I rarely use the built in speakers and wear headsets. - Some fading at the edges of the screen if you stand too close

UPDATE Something new is happening with the monitor: When open e-mails in my mac, the e-mail body is black so I cannot read the content. If I forward the e-mail the content is displayed. Usually I wrk with my mac closed but when I open it, the e-mail is displayed correctly in the mac; if I close it then the e-mail is displayed as a black area in the screen. Still researching how to fix this. **************************************************** I would rate this product on 3.5 out of 5 stars. I was looking for a 2K monitor with VESA mount and wanted a VIEWSONIC but in the description I was not sure if those have the VESA mount so i went for the BENQ. PROS. Resolution, color and brightness are good; you have different types of connectors (I use HDMI and display port) what adds flexibility but only provides one HDMI what could be a deal breaker for some. Menu is easy to navigate but some parameters like higher resolution are tricky to set. CONS. I believe they are using new technology in this monitor but chassis/case comes from the 90s. This is a thick monitor (almost 2.5); drivers/documentation comers in a CD/DVD and the monitor looks out-dated. From performance perspective I have no issues yet, 3D animations runs ok but is flickery. Color accuracy looks fine too and got very nice results when I hooked to a GFORCE RTX 2060 graphics card. Overall, I think value for the money is good but not the best. I would invest few more dollars and get the Viewsonic or a LG / Dell monitor. I would say this is a good entry level 2K monitor.

Most monitors these days have flimsy plastic stands and seem to be of poor quality. This works perfectly w/my MacBook Pro, 4K resolution and Retina down-sizing make the text sharp and crisp. I use this mainly for work & programming so cannot comment too much on the colors, though they look good to me. Very solid monitor, the base is metal, USB-C works great. After several poor experiences trying to get monitors thatd look good on MacOS, this one made the cut.