By Kane Fulton
Introduction, design and features
Back in the mid-2000s, owning a 30-inch monitor was the (expensive) dream. Our collective thirst for larger panels hasn’t dampened since then, and if you’re not considering splashing out on a TV-sized 40-inch monitor, you might be weighing up a cinematic ultra-wide offering like the Dell UltraSharp U3415W.
The Dell UltraSharp U3415W sports a pixel-resolution of 3,440 x 1,440 (WQHD), lending it a “cinematic” aspect ratio of 21:9. Compared to the first wave of ultra-wide monitors from 2013-2014 that used a much narrower 2,560 x 1,080 pixel-resolution, WQHD feels much less like peering into a brightly lit letterbox.
The resolution also feels more familiar if you’ve used a 2,560 x 1440 (QHD) monitor before. The U3415W has the same amount of height as Apple’s (non-Retina) 27-inch iMac, for example, only with 440 extra horizontal pixels bolted onto each side.
It means that you get tons of real-estate on the desktop for using multiple browsers at once, watching Hollywood blockbusters in their native 21:9 aspect ratio or playing games in massive detail — if you’ve got the beefy graphics card (or two) required to push the pixels.
The U3415W is …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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