New Benq Monitor Day

[GeeJay57]

Just bought a 27" Benq MA270U monitor for £399 off Amazon for use with my M2 MacBook Air. This is the nano-matte screen version. Benq have targeted this monitor at MacBook use. It also works fine with my wife's Windows 11 Asus VivoBook, though graphics card isn't as good in this as the MacBook.

The glossy-screen version is MA270UP, which has been in short supply. Having used an iMac 27 with glossy-screen for just over a decade, the MA270UP version was in contention. But after doing a side by side comparison of glossy and matte Studio Displays in the Apple Store in Liverpool earlier in the week, I decided that I'd go for a matte display. The Studio nano-matte finish is outstanding, the Benq is very close.

It was interesting to take a closer look at the Studio displays to see what the Benq is up against. I think it does a pretty good job at 1/4 of the price. Yes the Studio Display is a lovely piece of kit, but at just over £2k for a matte version and height/swivel stand, it would have to be hugely better than the Benq for me to consider one, and it really isn't for what I need.

Have only dabbled with it so far, but it looks very good to me.

PS the MA320U and MA320UP are the 32" versions of the same monitor.

 

[Tulipone]

Glad you like your BenQ, I was in a similar situation when I replaced my iMac with a Mac Mini and have been very pleased with mine.

The only downside I had was it doesn’t have a webcam and I do use FaceTime and Teams but that was easily solved by 3D printing out a mount.

I bought a BenQ light bar also and love the light that puts out.

 

[Norkie]

I have the MA270U and the 2730S 5k monitors, Very happy with them both.

 

[saltireblue]

I recently bought a PD2705Q to replace an ancient Apple Thunderbolt screen. Only use it for image processing and have to say that for the price (roughly £400 in UK money), it is super.