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Received the P2415Q today, so here’s my initial impressions.
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If any one has any questions I’ll still be in test mode with this for next day, so please feel free to ask.

Thanks for the review... I'm a bit sad to hear the anti-glare is a bit of a distraction at high-res... I was afraid of that. I prefer pure glass as well.

What Mac is it connected to? Are you having any issues with it coming on when booting?

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to calibration, (and have no intention to invest in a calibration setup) but if I use the factory calibration with the backlight uniformity setting on, you're saying it's pretty good out of the box?

Will I need to load the ICC calibration file from the Dell CD for it to look right on the Mac or does OS X provide a decent default calibration?
 
Thanks for the review... I'm a bit sad to hear the anti-glare is a bit of a distraction at high-res... I was afraid of that. I prefer pure glass as well.

What Mac is it connected to? Are you having any issues with it coming on when booting?

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to calibration, (and have no intention to invest in a calibration setup) but if I use the factory calibration with the backlight uniformity setting on, you're saying it's pretty good out of the box?

Will I need to load the ICC calibration file from the Dell CD for it to look right on the Mac or does OS X provide a decent default calibration?

What Mac is it connected to?
Base retina iMac

Are you having any issues with it coming on when booting?
So far so good, comes out of sleep with no issues as well.

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to calibration, (and have no intention to invest in a calibration setup) but if I use the factory calibration with the backlight uniformity setting on, you're saying it's pretty good out of the box?

What I was saying that the Uniformity Compensation setting seemed like it did a good job of making the panel more uniform at the expense of user calibration. Factory calibration seemed fine maybe a little warm, compared to i1 Display Pro calibration on riMac. If using more than one monitor factory calibration could be an issue if you have to match it to a different display. ( default riMac too green, P2415Q too warm, compared to both calibrated with i1 Display Pro. After both calibrated they look almost identical sans the AG coating )
Here's an excellent article on calibration:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/calibrating.htm

Will I need to load the ICC calibration file from the Dell CD for it to look right on the Mac or does OS X provide a decent default calibration?
Don't have a CDROM, and Dell support section only mentions windows drivers no ICC file.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/dell-p2415q-monitor/drivers

Read the ICC (International Color Consortium) Profiles section on the link above, as in order to get a better understanding of why it's still important to calibrate with graphics hardware and monitor.

For me I have not regretted anything spent on my i1 Display Pro, I too was hesitant to splurge, but it's one on the best tools in my toolbox. I have all my display devices calibrated with it. It really is awesome to have a continuous color expectation through out all devices. My opinion.
 
So I got the P2715Q today. While checking for dead pixels I found an area that was damaged. It looks like the actual screen is damaged.

http://i.imgur.com/c2hDNOK.jpg

I called Dell and they said that they are sold out of it. They can only offer me a refund not a replacement until they get more units in. I have until January 15 to return it if I want to. However, I would much rather have them replace it. I got this monitor at a really good price and it would be a shame to have to return it.

I don't mind having to wait a couple of months until they get more stock in to RMA it. I just want to make sure that Dell notes on my account that the monitor came damaged and I will be asking for a replacement as soon as they get more in stock.

My worry is that once they get more in stock and I ask them to RMA it, they will try to blame me for damaging the monitor.

Supposedly this monitor comes with 3 years of warranty and Dell's premium panel warranty.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&sku=210-ADOF

This is a low quality pic of my backlight bleed.
http://i.imgur.com/SLWHVHq.jpg

For anybody with experience with Dell. What's the best way to go about this?
 
really? i actually found out later that my dell came with a faulty usb cable, but instead of a normal trouble shoot the rep didnt even bother, she just made a rma replacement.
 
I have $200 in Dell gift cards coming within the next week, after trying the LG 34UM95 and being disappointed, I may jump for the 27" here. Seems like a really good value, and Dell is a lot easier to deal with than LG
 
Just got my two P2415Q displays delivered by Fedex and hooked them up to my nMP. These are definitely much less heavy than the UP2414Q and, so far, run much cooler than it, which makes sense, since the teardown of the UP2414Q showed it had 3 display controllers running in it because of MST, while I assume these just have one each for SST. Had a strange experience when I started the computer up where the displays were being mirrored and the System Preference wouldn't come up, but I shut down, restarted with one monitor attached, waited till it started up, and then hooked up the second one, and everything was ok. I'm hoping that was a onetime thing, but then again, there's no reason to expect that the 4K compatibility issues are going to disappear - I've used 3 different 4K monitors with this computer and all had compatibility issues - so at a certain point you know it's not the monitors. At least the MST issues should be gone.

Display quality looks great. Anti-glare looks fine to me, these seem like monitors you can stare at all day. I'm running at True Retina resolution - "Best for Display" 2X mode, so the scaling of everything is perfect and looks as good as my rMBP. Assuming the compatibility issues don't start to creep up (and I fully expect they will), then these are great. The build quality seems fine. I'd say they're better than the Samsung 27", nice solid stands with easy adjustment, but obviously not as as good as something like the LG. I'm not running any apps where I'd see the difference between sRGB and Adobe RGB.
 
Just got my two P2415Q displays delivered by Fedex and hooked them up to my nMP. These are definitely much less heavy than the UP2414Q and, so far, run much cooler than it, which makes sense, since the teardown of the UP2414Q showed it had 3 display controllers running in it because of MST, while I assume these just have one each for SST. Had a strange experience when I started the computer up where the displays were being mirrored and the System Preference wouldn't come up, but I shut down, restarted with one monitor attached, waited till it started up, and then hooked up the second one, and everything was ok. I'm hoping that was a onetime thing, but then again, there's no reason to expect that the 4K compatibility issues are going to disappear - I've used 3 different 4K monitors with this computer and all had compatibility issues - so at a certain point you know it's not the monitors. At least the MST issues should be gone.

Display quality looks great. Anti-glare looks fine to me, these seem like monitors you can stare at all day. I'm running at True Retina resolution - "Best for Display" 2X mode, so the scaling of everything is perfect and looks as good as my rMBP. Assuming the compatibility issues don't start to creep up (and I fully expect they will), then these are great. The build quality seems fine. I'd say they're better than the Samsung 27", nice solid stands with easy adjustment, but obviously not as as good as something like the LG. I'm not running any apps where I'd see the difference between sRGB and Adobe RGB.


Good to hear. I've been waiting for your report given your past experiences :)

What happens when you shutdown and restart now? Do both light up correctly? Do you get boot screens or not until login? What about coming out of sleep?
 
Startup:

  • If I startup with both monitors on, I'm still getting a weird issue where it seems OSX is confused - it's sort of like it's mirroring the displays, but the cursor is not mirrored - it moves from one monitor to the other normally. If I turn off one of the monitors, everything goes normal and then I can turn the monitor back on and everything stays fine.
  • Still no display till login complete, but seems to start up much faster than the other 4K monitors, for some reason - I think that the Mac must have been waiting during startup for some signal that the other monitors weren't sending which had to timeout before the boot could continue.

Sleep - wakes from sleep fine, but that said, most of the wake-from-sleep issues come from extended sleep which I haven't tried.

So, I'm just 30 minutes into trying these out, so far nothing that's a showstopper or unexpected. Real question will be what the extended wake-from-sleep looks like.
 
i had same situation as above poster - had a 27" hp2711x and after getting retina 15" mbp i could not use the 27" any longer (because it was just so freaking blurry looking).

i got the p2715q today and all is well
 
Update: Mac Pro 4,1 with Sapphire 7950 -- the power-up problem is not the P2715Q.

  • The system definitely won't start with the 7950 in Mac mode, with the monitor switched on and the Displayport in either socket.
  • The system definitely will start with the 7950 in Mac mode, with the monitor switched off and the Displayport in either socket. Switching the monitor on 2 seconds after the chime is fine.
  • Switching the 7950 to PC-mode means that my system boots without a problem with the monitor on and in either Displayport but that means no Apple logo or Bootcamp.
  • The system starts fine with the monitor using the 7950 HDMI -- though no good as that's only 30Hz.
  • I went digging in boxes and found my old GT120 -- the system starts fine at the GT120's highest res of 2560x1440 using its Displayport.

In more depressing news, every now and then the screen flickers as though it lost the signal for 1/10 second. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it. I'll go and get a decent Displayport cable tomorrow.

Hunting around on the intertubes, it seems that Apple updated the 7950 driver a while back and borked a few things. Specifically, the Displayport started giving problems to Cinema Display owners. That driver problem might have been fixed but I haven't dug deep enough to find an answer yet.

Random question: when the monitor wakes up after being in Sleep Mode or when it is switched off and on, my browser windows are all at the top left of the screen. Is that normal?
 
Update: Mac Pro 4,1 with Sapphire 7950 -- the power-up problem is not the P2715Q.
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Random question: when the monitor wakes up after being in Sleep Mode or when it is switched off and on, my browser windows are all at the top left of the screen. Is that normal?

Does not happen on P2415Q with the base iMac 5k. So far none of the other issues you've described either. Using Dell provided cable.
 
Startup:

Still no display till login complete,

So you need to have "Automatic login" "ON" or blindly type your password?

I look forward to an update tomorrow after you've had it for 24hrs. :)

I'm only seeing the 27 on the Dell site here in the US. Has anybody come across it anywhere else?

Are you looking for other retailers in the US or in other countries? If the US, I think you're correct.

Random question: when the monitor wakes up after being in Sleep Mode or when it is switched off and on, my browser windows are all at the top left of the screen. Is that normal?

There is a thread in the Mac Pro forum about this...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1757688/
 
So you need to have "Automatic login" "ON" or blindly type your password?

No, I mean the first thing you'll see is the password login display. It's dark until then, but it lights up when the login screen appears and you can then login normally.

The problem is that the EFI boot rom of the nMP only supports 4K at 30Hz via SST or 60Hz via MST. So, a 60Hz 4K SST monitor only lights up when OSX has fully loaded and the OSX graphics driver that supports the display is running. This will be the case until Apple releases an EFI update for the nMP. This is only really a problem if you want to be able to hold down the option key and select a different drive to boot from, like for Bootcamp, since the drive select screen is also handled by the EFI boot rom, so the screen won't be displayed. One work-around for now is to hook up the monitor using both the monitor's DisplayPort and the HDMI ports, and switch the display input to HDMI when needing to use the boot select screen, since HDMI 4K is also 30Hz and the EFI boot rom can drive it.
 
No, I mean the first thing you'll see is the password login display. It's dark until then, but it lights up when the login screen appears and you can then login normally.

The problem is that the EFI boot rom of the nMP only supports 4K at 30Hz via SST or 60Hz via MST. So, a 60Hz 4K SST monitor only lights up when OSX has fully loaded and the OSX graphics driver that supports the display is running. This will be the case until Apple releases an EFI update for the nMP. This is only really a problem if you want to be able to hold down the option key and select a different drive to boot from, like for Bootcamp, since the drive select screen is also handled by the EFI boot rom, so the screen won't be displayed. One work-around for now is to hook up the monitor using both the monitor's DisplayPort and the HDMI ports, and switch the display input to HDMI when needing to use the boot select screen, since HDMI 4K is also 30Hz and the EFI boot rom can drive it.


I see. That makes sense. Hopefully they'll provide such a firmware update, but I don't dual-boot so your workaround is fine if I ever need to access the recovery partition.
 
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Yes, recovery partition would also have the same problem. Anything that happens before OSX (or Bootcamp Windows) is fully loaded. Hopefully we'll see an EFI update soon since there were pretty much no 4K@60Hz SST monitors when Apple did the last EFI update and now there are at least half a dozen.
 
I got the P2715Q today and it's great looking. My only problem is I can't get it to run in it's native resolution at 60Hz on a 2012 rMBP's GeForce 650M (10.10.1). If I plug it in with miniDisplay Port I can get it to display 2560x1440/60 and if I use HDMI it will run at 3840x2160/30. Tomorrow I'm going to try a few more cable options, mess with SwitchResX and closed-clamshell mode to see if I can get 3840x2160/60. Does anyone have any other ideas so I don't get tempted to upgrade my still excellent 2.6GHz i7?
 
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I got the P2715Q today and it's great looking. My only problem is I can't get it to run in it's native resolution at 60Hz on a 2012 rMBP's GeForce 650M (10.10.1). If I plug it in with miniDisplay Port I can get it to display 2560x1440/60 and if I use HDMI it will run at 3840x2160/30. Tomorrow I'm going to try a few more cable options, mess with SwitchResX and closed-clamshell mode to see if I can get 3840x2160/60. Does anyone have any other ideas so I don't get tempted to upgrade my still excellent 2.6GHz i7?

According to Apple, your Mac doesn't support 4K at 60Hz... http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202856
 
Mine was ordered on Dec. 6 and it arrived today (original delivery date was the 26th!). Got it hooked up on extra HDMI port along with my trusty 6 y.o. Dell 2407WFP-HC which has been great, and still can hold its own next to the 4k monitor.

No disappointments here in terms of picture quality. Software & application support is a little lacking. On Win 8.1 default text size (menus, title bar, etc.) looks very small (8pt-ish?). Other applications (Lightroom, Chrome, WebStorm) do a nice job of scaling the text, albeit somewhat softly.

Haven't seen any defects or yellow tints. It does seem to flicker every once in a while for a fraction of a second as someone else noted. And once it wouldn't wake from screen-save mode and I had to literally pull the cord (the power button didn't work). Hoping this is just a glitch that will be resolved once I move to discrete graphics card with DisplayPort.

And oh, moving windows around is noticeably different at 30Hz vs. 60 Hz.

Screenshots at native resolution (24" on the left, 27" on right). Last photo in mirror mode at 1920x1200.
 

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Yes, recovery partition would also have the same problem. Anything that happens before OSX (or Bootcamp Windows) is fully loaded. Hopefully we'll see an EFI update soon since there were pretty much no 4K@60Hz SST monitors when Apple did the last EFI update and now there are at least half a dozen.

While I'm waiting for mine (now not due until Monday), One thing I'd be interested in hearing about is whether the display continues to work properly when rotated to portrait mode.
 
While I'm waiting for mine (now not due until Monday), One thing I'd be interested in hearing about is whether the display continues to work properly when rotated to portrait mode.

Whilst I am grateful for the early impressions and photos, I can't believe nobody has tested this yet.
 
While I'm waiting for mine (now not due until Monday), One thing I'd be interested in hearing about is whether the display continues to work properly when rotated to portrait mode.

it works, i don't know what else i can say about it, was just using it last night while proof reading a large document
 
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