HP - 27q 27" LED QHD Monitor (DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI) - Pike Silver

Bought this when I started working from home during the pandemic. I’ve had this monitor for over a year and it remains in great condition. Great quality and price. I love that multiple display settings and input modes are offered. I am both a paralegal and a musician, and this monitor has helped me achieve optimal functionality.

PROS: - Gorgeous display, aside from the actual display - Easy Setup - Intuitive on Screen Controls CONS: - Horrible viewing angles (a couple of inches left or right and the colors will shift) - No gamma control - Preset Factory modes are good, but way too bright (if they had the option to start with one of these modes and then tweak the settings, that would be great) - Actual screen reminds you late 90s displays - Washed out colors In my opinion, the 1440p resolution isn't worth the $300 price point. It's a TN panel. You'd be better off going with a IPS 1080p panel for $200 or less. If your eye is good enough to appreciate the improved resolution of 1440p, then it will be good enough to notice the horrible screen quality of this particular TN panel. I bought two of these for my office. I work with AutoCAD, Adobe Acrobat, and Word software. I spent several hours tweaking the display with the on screen controls and the NVIDIA Control Panel. I could not find a solution that didn't hurt my eyes, especially with Word and File Explorer. The only caveat I will mention is that, when I told my co-workers I would be returning them, none of them understood why. Long story short, if you have a picky eye, then you probably won't like these monitors. If you don't have a picky eye, then why not just buy a cheaper 1080p IPS display?

I was looking for a monitor better than the 1080p I have at home, but don't have a gaming machine powerful enough to justify a 4k monitor, so I went with this as a compromise. The image looks great, video looks great, no real complaints. There's a small like 1/2 inch black border on the left and right side of the screen; it could be intended or i might have a setting off.

Perfect size and resolution for me. I bought 4; 2 for me and 2 for my daughter who is learning to code. Don't go below QHD. FHD's are just to rough for my eyes. UHD's are too expensive.

Great morning for the money!! I was looking for vesa mount monitor & saw these on sale & bought 2..

Live these monitors. Very light weight. Vast improvement over the dinosaurs I was using.

I bought two for a dual monitor setup using the Digital Port Input.

I've had a HP 27er monitor for more than two years, it's been awsome I do software development and when I travel by car I take this with as a second monitor. I just added another 27" UHD monitor to my desktop setup, and found that I needed to zoom in 150-175%, so I'm really using it more like a QHD anyhow; so I paid more to get a higher resolution I'm not really using it. That's where the HP 27q comes, it's 2560x1440 (vs 3860x2160 - but you can't use the full resolution un-zoomed as the font is way to small (for me to read comfortable; windows includes zooming to solve this problem, but not all apps support it uniformly). I can use the 27q at full resolution and still read it clearly. So for me a full UHD seems like over kill, especially when compared to the native sharpness of the 27q. It's a bit brighter than my HP 27er, it has more control settings, including blue light reducer (w/4 settings) which is a step up. The screen also offers some tilt control and is more anti-glare. I brought it to get more screen real-estate for a reasonable price. It has 3 inputs (DVI, HDMI & Display port). I tried HDMI and Display port and could not tell them apart (which is good). HP has 2 versions of the 27q; if your an avid gamer you might want to spend 10% more and get the freesync version (AMD grapics card), otherwise the non-freesync version does a very decent job with it's 2ms display timing (that what it said on the box but not in the BB specs [5ms]). The viewing angles are excellent, the back of the monitor does have a VESA mounting adapter, the screen can't weigth more than 6lbs on it's own, it's very narrow monitor make is ideal to pair with a nother monitor to it right or left. All and all I'm very impressed, by the clean output, display speed and overall resolution, I did not know that a non-IPS monitor had this quality of output - I'm happy