After reading the review that gave overall OK reviews, but blasted the Uniformity Compensation feature, I decided to try it after seeing the mapped effects it had on their monitor. It might not have done much for their test display, but after tweaking the colors a little bit as they suggested, and turning Uniformity Comp on, the warm tint on the left all but disappeared. It's a pretty darn good image now...finally.
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Dell P2715Q and P2415Q 4K IPS Displays
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After reading the review that gave overall OK reviews, but blasted the Uniformity Compensation feature, I decided to try it after seeing the mapped effects it had on their monitor. It might not have done much for their test display, but after tweaking the colors a little bit as they suggested, and turning Uniformity Comp on, the warm tint on the left all but disappeared. It's a pretty darn good image now...finally.
(Assuming I have a 2014 macbook pro retina with nVideo card)
If anyone with a similar setup is seeing a performance drop of screen redraws when the macbook screen is being using (instead of clam shell mode)
I would only be using this as an Xcode , text, web, email system, I do not play games on the mac or do photography or video editing (I do play youtube videos at full screen sometimes)
thank you!
If anyone with a similar setup is seeing a performance drop of screen redraws when the macbook screen is being using (instead of clam shell mode)
I would only be using this as an Xcode , text, web, email system, I do not play games on the mac or do photography or video editing (I do play youtube videos at full screen sometimes)
thank you!
Just got the P2715Q yesterday and I'm really happy with the purchase. I had $200 in Dell e-giftcards that I was able to use, so it brought the price down a lot. I initially had the sleeping issue but turning off that setting on the Dell monitor menu seems to have fixed the issue for me.
I had a widescreen LG for about a week before, but couldn't look past the grainy text - the text on this thing is amazing.
I had a widescreen LG for about a week before, but couldn't look past the grainy text - the text on this thing is amazing.
The DDC/CI setting, no other changes were made.
I view this monitor as a poor-mans Retina Thunderbolt display. doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but appears to be a great value.
I really am spoilt by the Retina of my 13" and 15" MacBooks and thus want an external display which has the same properties. Would you rather recommend the 24" or 27" to get about the same DPI as on the 15" display? I am sitting very close to the monitor so I think a 24" might do fine size-wise.
I picked up the 24" for that reason to run on my 13" MBPr. The DPI is quite close to the retina display and when running 1080p HiDPi, it looks very nice. No blurry fonts or icons, and no visible pixels. Good stuff!
I did. That's the only way I was able to get 1080p hidpi to work at 51mhz.
I tried to get the 1440p scaled resolution with the same method and it did not work. I guess I'll have to return it.
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Please let us know if you manage to get it working. I'd like to buy the 2715q to run in the same configuration.
What happens to gigabit internet?
Hello,
Like many here, I want to buy 1 or 2 of the 4K Dells. I received my new rMBP today and it has the highest spec.
Am I correct that when one 4K display is plugged into either thunderbolt port at 60 Hz, that the second thunderbolt port shuts down completely? Or does the second thunderbolt still allow a data connection through the gigabit to thunderbolt adapter (even though it won't support additional displays)?
WiFi is not good enough for my needs, so I am wondering if 4K at 60 Hz will still allow me to use gigabit internet?
Any insights would be most appreciated!
Jon
Hello,
Like many here, I want to buy 1 or 2 of the 4K Dells. I received my new rMBP today and it has the highest spec.
Am I correct that when one 4K display is plugged into either thunderbolt port at 60 Hz, that the second thunderbolt port shuts down completely? Or does the second thunderbolt still allow a data connection through the gigabit to thunderbolt adapter (even though it won't support additional displays)?
WiFi is not good enough for my needs, so I am wondering if 4K at 60 Hz will still allow me to use gigabit internet?
Any insights would be most appreciated!
Jon
I have a 4k monitor plugged into one thunderbolt port, and a external drive plugged into the other thunderbolt port (13" MBPr). I can say that for photo editing, the monitor and external drive both work off the same thunderbolt bus simultaneously.
Good question. Driving the display requires about 14Gbps of bandwidth. At the very least, you'll have 6Gbps of bandwidth left for data, however, depending on how the TB2 controllers work, you may actually get a full x4 PCIe bandwidth out of the 2nd connector. So the 2nd port will definitely give you something, I'm just not sure how much.
I don't have that option with my machine, and don't see how that would be possible since you would need a display with a resolution of 5120x2880 to effectively render HiDPi at 1440p. Unless I'm missing something that is....
To answer both questions, He's (tomislavf) referring to "looks like" 2560x1440 scaled retina resolution. These are the resolutions available on my base riMac 5k for the P2415Q
Apple Scaled resolutions
1504x846
1920x1080 Best for display
2304x1296 matches riMac’s Best for display setting ( apparent size )
2560x1440
3008x1692
Although these settings ( 2560x1440, 3008x1692 ) are still more than useable. I personally feel this is the point that the AG coating starts to interfere/compete with smaller text. Where there still seems to be plenty of visual clarity on the glossy 5k and I don’t think it’s just the higher pixel density. Obviously this is an individual perspective.
Hope this clarifies.
Thank you.
Now if someone could just confirm that the MBP Retina 13" can drive those 1440p and 1692p resolutions, since I can't make it out from the entire thread if it works.
Yes, 2560x1440 is a scaled option and is supported, however it does look quite fuzzy compared to HiDPi resolutions. I would probably opt for a display with a native 1440p resolution if that was the resolution I was planning to run most of the time.
On my base riMac 5k, 2560x1440 is a HiDPi resolution for the P2415Q and is not fuzzy at all. ( my opinion ) It is quite usable at that resolution, although a bit small. What I was mentioning before, was not that it was fuzzy, just the AG coating starts to become noticeable compared to non glossy riMac 5k at higher than "retina" scaled resolutions, but definitely not fuzzy.
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On my rMBP late 13 using SwitchRezX could only manage HiDPI of 1920x1080 as well. Might want to contact author of SwitchRezX as he's been quite helpful to other's looking for solutions for their setups. Let us know if you do and what you find out.
I guess "fuzzy" is open to interpretation. My point being, is that it's clearly not as crisp and clear as a HiDPi setting. I'm used to my retina screen on my macbook, and any display that isn't retina seems to look fuzzy. At least the dell using a HiDPi setting allows for a retina like experience outside of an apple retina display.
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Dell P2715Q and P2415Q 4K IPS Displays
What do you mean by lag?
Mouse pointer lag or moving a window feeling laggy are likely refresh rate related or an overall signal delay due to input processing.
"Fast" vs "Normal" will improve the liquid crystal pixel response rate (grey to grey response time) by overdriving the transistors which is relevant for rapid pixel changes (e.g. Gaming) and usually comes at the expense of image quality. This setting won't make any difference on a regular OS desktop (other than a possible reduction in contrast or adding trails to moving objects).
What do you mean by lag?
Mouse pointer lag or moving a window feeling laggy are likely refresh rate related or an overall signal delay due to input processing.
"Fast" vs "Normal" will improve the liquid crystal pixel response rate (grey to grey response time) by overdriving the transistors which is relevant for rapid pixel changes (e.g. Gaming) and usually comes at the expense of image quality. This setting won't make any difference on a regular OS desktop (other than a possible reduction in contrast or adding trails to moving objects).
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