Does anyone have the U2515H?

[Mynight]

I'm interested in hearing your experiences with it.

It looks like an absolute beauty with the specs to match. All the reviews I've read suggest its great.

Have you found any downfalls the reviews may have missed?

[mjallan123]

I don't have it, but was tempted to get it. However, it's only 60hz and has no variable refresh technology which are deal-breakers as far as I'm concerned.

I wouldn't be buying any monitors right now. Wait till the summer, good things are coming.

[rallfo]

I have the U2715H which is otherwise identical apart from the size of the panel, according to tftcentral. They are very nice looking monitors and the real input lag below 10ms is among the lowest of the non G-Sync monitors. Panel is made by LG but to my knowledge they haven't included it in any of their own monitors with comparable pricing or performance. Colours are great and the monitor is factory calibrated.

I went for the 27" since that's just about the size you can use as a full HD replacement TV at typical couch distances for one or two people.

Not much more to say really other than make sure to check the service tag with Dell because they can be a bit funny with honouring warranties and there's a lot of grey market stock floating around. I got mine brand new with full Dell warranty for £400 all told back in April.

[ik9000]

it comes at a penalty - too many pixels in too small a screen = native resolution giving teeny tiny fonts and images on screen

In depth review here: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2515h.htm

[edgars70]

I have one.

I'm no expert when it comes to monitors, but i really like the screen. It has lots of connections, the base/stand is solid and it allows lots of adjustment options.

I use it for normal pc stuff + gaming (world of tanks) and I have no problems. It is on my desk and is less than one meter away from me. I used the windows 7 scaling and I have no problem with small text / fonts.

The downfall that is not on any of the reviews I read are to do with the controls.

The on/off button and the adjustment controls are touch sensitive, have no lights and they are not tactile. I have two pcs connected to my screen. I have to manually switch between the mDP (pc1) and HDMI (pc2) input sources each time I want to change to another computer. This is a pain as I cannot see the buttons on the screen (unless I have the main overhead lights on), you cannot feel the buttons with your finger tips and i end up pressing in the general area until i get lucky. If you will only have one input source, then less of a pain, but it is still hit or miss when pressing the on/off button.

[Thorsson]

it comes at a penalty - too many pixels in too small a screen = native resolution giving teeny tiny fonts and images on screen

The pixel size is about 85% of a standard 24" (23.8") monitor; plus they will be crisper. I guess it depends on bad your eyesight/glasses are whether that will be a problem, but I doubt that it is for most people.

[rallfo]

The pixel size is about 85% of a standard 24" (23.8") monitor; plus they will be crisper. I guess it depends on bad your eyesight/glasses are whether that will be a problem, but I doubt that it is for most people.

That's why I personally opted for the 27". Now if Microsoft could actually ship an OS where DPI scaling of fonts etc actually behaved in a sensible way you could have your cake and eat it too on the tiny font vs pixel density issue. I'm told they're great for Macs which obviously natively handle high-DPI screens like the retinas very well and the miniDP connectors apparently support Thunderbolt daisy-chaining too (something not made clear in the tech specs).

[ik9000]

I had a 1920x1200 17" laptop. Had to boost fonts to 120% to compensate, but images displayed weird and not much I could do to get the pages looking right. That was on XP though, newer OS presumably handle it a lot better.

[Thorsson]

I had a 1920x1200 17" laptop. Had to boost fonts to 120% to compensate, but images displayed weird and not much I could do to get the pages looking right. That was on XP though, newer OS presumably handle it a lot better.

That dot pitch was 0.1907mm compared to 0.2162mm on the U2515H and 0.2335mm on the U2715H. Your laptop was about 20% smaller dot pitch, but the U2515H is only around 7% smaller. My current dot pitch is around the same size and I could certainly handle it being a bit smaller - the text on web pages is larger than I have it when using MS Office.