Stefan Mileschin

Do you Photoshop, design, work in animation, or otherwise need your monitor to give you extremely accurate colors? If so, BenQ has the monitor for you, but it’ll cost a pretty penny. Well, 100,000 pretty pennies.

The PD2720u sits in an odd space. It is, to be frank, a gorgeous, stunning, screen perfect for anyone who makes money by creating beautiful digital things.

But it’s also $1,099. And let’s be honest, you almost stopped reading the review right there. But please, keep going. BenQ may have justified the high sticker price for the right kind of a person.
Nailing the Basics
The monitor fit right in with my spartan look, the only adjustment I made was moving the center speaker to below the monitor instead of on it. Josh Hendrickson

At 27 inches, the PD2720u hits that sweet spot of “probably big enough” for most people. While 32 inches is more and more common, a 27-inch size means it’ll likely fit on your desk without issue, yet give you plenty of screen real-estate.

The 3840×2160 resolution doesn’t hurt either, though you’ll need to work with scaling or fight to read the tiniest of text. Gamers aren’t the target here, though; you only get a 60hz refresh rate and a 5ms response time. Plenty enough for casual gaming, but not winning any competitions.

What the display does give you are all the connections. You’ll find 2 HDMI 2.0 ports, a DisplayPort, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, three USB 3.1 ports, and audio out. The Thunderbolt ports are the star attraction here; they support daisy chaining and single cable operation.

That means instead of a cable from each monitor to your PC or laptop (which would be difficult from a laptop), you connect a cable from the laptop to the first monitor and another cable from the first monitor to the second monitor. If you have a recent Apple MacBook Pro, the monitor can even charge your Macbook. Overall it makes for a cleaner and less cluttered work area.

BenQ even includes just about every cable you can ask for, DisplayPort being the lone exception in the list.

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