ViewSonic VX2776-SMHD 27 Inch 1080p IPS Monitor with FreeSync, Ultra-Thin Bezels, HDMI and DisplayPort

Sorry I wrote a book here. For those of us with ADD (like me), in summary, this is an excellent monitor given the price.For everyone who wants to read the long version :-DI’d give it twice as many stars if I could.I remember my first ViewSonic monitor back when I was doing graphics work in the late 90s before Windows 98. It was an 18” CRT that took up my whole desk but it was cheaper – at $1200 – than any other comparable monitor. It was a great monitor and served me very well.I’ve had several ViewSonics since and I will admit my bias. In fact, I’m using a 24” one here at my desk as a 2nd display for my Dell all-in-one (company issue computer).So anyway, I wanted to hook up a 2nd monitor to my MacBook at home so I could both shoot tethered and edit photos on a decent screen. I didn’t need a huge display, just an improvement over a 13” laptop display. I’m not doing professional work so having the ability to exactly calibrate isn’t important to me. I just wanted reasonably faithful color rendering, flicker free display with decent saturation and uniform display.But when searching for an inexpensive monitor I didn’t rule out any others and kept an open mind. I ended up with this one and I’ve been very pleased with itFirst things first: It comes in three pieces that you put together with no tools. Base, riser and display. It snaps together, you plug in a power cord and cable of your flavor and you’re done. It’s auto recognized in Mac and within moments you’re done. I’m primarily a windows user and my experience on that OS is far greater and I find that current versions of Win7,8, etc also have no issues with these displays. I have a mac because it was a gift and my old desktop died on me.So for the monitor, its an IPS display and the color is excellent and the display is uniform across the entire display field. There is a faint bit of hazing at the edges but it is a) only noticeable with a very dark background color and b) it is a characteristic of IPS displays in general, not a fault.I’m using it for remote shooting with my Canon T6 and the Canon utilities, Lightroom and Photoshop CC (which sucks, by the way and I’m moving to GIMP). Love the color, love the size and the clarity.So, for about 15 times less than my first ViewSonic monitor, I get one that weighs nearly nothing, takes up so little space on my desk, and has a good bit more viewing area.

I bought 2 of these to replace my 2 aging monitors on the desktop. I was surprised when they arrived and I saw how small the box was. I was even more surprised upon opening the box to see all that was included.They supplied every possible cable EXCEPT the Display Port cable. The packaging was a work of art.Setting these up was painless, but you do have to apply a bit of force to push the panel down into the stand until it snaps in place. It was nice that no tools were needed to set these up.I don’t game, so can’t comment on its use for that.These look amazing with practically 0 wasted space on the edges. I have these set together and they look great. I can’t believe how incredibly thin these are.I’m using these with my onboard Intel UHD630 graphics. One on display port and one On HDMI connection. They both look fantastically bright and crisp. However, for the life of me, I cannot get the 2 displays to appear exactly the same. The display port monitor shows white with a slightly yellowish tint and the HDMI monitor shows a slightly bluish tint. Neither of them are bothersome for me, but there is a definite slight difference when displaying web pages or documents spanned between the 2 monitors. I have fussed with each screens settings in both the on screen settings and the display properties in Win 10. I just can’t get them exact, so I’ll live with it.As others have stated, forget about the built in speakers, there’s jut no joy there. My PC kept defaulting to the HDMI audio every time I booted up. At first I thought my sound wasn’t working because I heard nothing. Once I realized the default output was being sent to the monitor speakers I disabled both outputs in the Windows sound settings.At first the menu settings were annoying because the buttons for the are recessed, and the power button sits behind a small light that indicted power on. The menu buttons are not bothering me now as I’ve gotten used to the navigation, but hitting the power indicator light when turning these on is still annoying. No deductions for this, however.Elegant looking, edge to edge, fantastic image quality (although slightly off between the 2 displays), these were a great bargain.

excellent monitor, easy on the eyes, value for the money, works well with Mac or Windows.