When I got my hands on the Viewsonic VG2847Smh monitor to review, It really captured my interest for a number of reasons. For starters, I had all sorts of ways to connect it to my MacBook Pro including:
I chose HDMI and the result was an absolutely bright and crystal clear display at 1920×1080. I could have left it at that, but the monitor had a few extra tricks up its sleeve to enhance my viewing pleasure:
- There are five scenario presets which are “Game,” “Movie,” “Web,” “Text,” and “Mono.” All these presets enhance gamma curve, color temperature, contrast, and brightness to deliver an optimized viewing experience for different screen applications. I experimented with “Game” and “Movie” and I can say that it does make the viewing experience better for those applications.
- There is zero flicker with this monitor. I really tried hard to find any flicker and I could not. That’s a big plus to me as excessive flicker causes me to have severe headaches.
- There is a blue light filter setting that allows you to adjust the amount of blue light emitted from the screen. What that allows you to do is make things more comfortable for your eyes. I didn’t tweak this too much, but my experimentation showed that there is a wide range of adjustability available for users.
- It’s LED backlit which I prefer as it creates a great color range which if you edit video or pictures you’d appreciate.
- It’s highly adjustable as you can not only pivot it for and aft, but you can move it up and down in ways that I usually don’t see in a monitor. Plus you can pivot it 90 degrees if you need to save some space.
The key thing that I really liked was the size. At 28″ and at 1920×1080 resolution, it’s big enough that I could fit everything that I needed on my screen without a problem and still see things clearly. Thus if you need two monitors to get the real estate that you need to do your work, I would suggest that this Viewsonic monitor will allow you to get away with one. It also has a pair of built in speakers. But to be honest, audiophiles may be a bit let down as I found the audio to be a bit flat and muddy with sound that isn’t richly defined. However, the target audience of this monitor is businesses and those in the graphics space. They will not care about the speakers. I will note that it supports HDMI audio as well as having a 1/8″ audio jack.
Other than the speakers, all of this came together nicely to give me a monitor that could do it all. Some notes on that:
- The VG2847Smh claims to support true 8-bit color (16.7 million color reproduction) and I believe it. I found that I could edit photos in Apple Photos and really get the color purity that I need to see little details such as when photos are taken in low light situations.
- Whether it was video games or movies, everything was crisp, clear, and distortion free. Thus I can comfortably say that you can throw anything at this monitor and it will take it.
- To save space on your desk, it has a USB hub built in as well. Plus if you are using thin clients in your environment, you can mount a Viewsonic thin client to the back of the monitor to save additional space.
The price for all of this goodness is $400 USD. You should keep in mind that this is a monitor that Viewsonic aims at businesses. But I would argue that anyone who wants a monitor that can do the sorts of things that Viewsonic VG2847Smh is capable of should just pull out the credit card and buy it. You will not regret your purchase.
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Review: Viewsonic VG2847Smh
When I got my hands on the Viewsonic VG2847Smh monitor to review, It really captured my interest for a number of reasons. For starters, I had all sorts of ways to connect it to my MacBook Pro including:
I chose HDMI and the result was an absolutely bright and crystal clear display at 1920×1080. I could have left it at that, but the monitor had a few extra tricks up its sleeve to enhance my viewing pleasure:
The key thing that I really liked was the size. At 28″ and at 1920×1080 resolution, it’s big enough that I could fit everything that I needed on my screen without a problem and still see things clearly. Thus if you need two monitors to get the real estate that you need to do your work, I would suggest that this Viewsonic monitor will allow you to get away with one. It also has a pair of built in speakers. But to be honest, audiophiles may be a bit let down as I found the audio to be a bit flat and muddy with sound that isn’t richly defined. However, the target audience of this monitor is businesses and those in the graphics space. They will not care about the speakers. I will note that it supports HDMI audio as well as having a 1/8″ audio jack.
Other than the speakers, all of this came together nicely to give me a monitor that could do it all. Some notes on that:
The price for all of this goodness is $400 USD. You should keep in mind that this is a monitor that Viewsonic aims at businesses. But I would argue that anyone who wants a monitor that can do the sorts of things that Viewsonic VG2847Smh is capable of should just pull out the credit card and buy it. You will not regret your purchase.
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