You will see blurry words. I have this and wish I had gotten a 2k screen at this size.
I work in IT and agree that 1080p is low for a 27" if you're wanting to gain screen real estate. However, I deploy these to people who have not-so-great vision so that they can have larger font without losing real estate. A 27" monitor with 150% zoom is about the same as a 22"or with 125% it's roughly the same as a 24"
1080P at 27" looks terrible IMO as well. I have 2 24" 1920x1200 and they look fine, but something about jumping to 27" looks inadequate. 2K at this size is excellent.
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I work in IT and agree that 1080p is low for a 27" if you're wanting to gain screen real estate. However, I deploy these to people who have not-so-great vision so that they can have larger font without losing real estate. A 27" monitor with 150% zoom is about the same as a 22"or with 125% it's roughly the same as a 24"
I concur. 27" is perfect for people with poor vision. I recommend that size to older individuals and I haven't had any complaints.
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It kills me how there are always people in these threads who do not understand that how blurry the monitor is going to be, is a function of size, resolution, and HOW FAR YOU SIT FROM IT.
If you sit 3 feet away from it, it's just fine. If you sit 1 foot from it, you are probably going to see the pixels.
I bought this from the $90 walmart ymmv deal, perfectly happy with. Not a gamer, so genuinely have no idea what everyone's moaning about, 1080p perfectly fine for work/etc. I added a VESA adapter from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Monitor-Mo...B0913KMS3K) later on when I ended up picking up another cheap 27", and have a dual mount set up at the moment. Honestly for my need/use-case, I wouldn't necessarily bite at the current 120$ price, but the monitor itself is good as far as I can tell.
not that long ago, people would have given body parts to see 1920x1080 at any scale. I remember multi-thousand dollar 24" monitors that did 1024/768 and weighed in the 200lb range.
You will see blurry words. I have this and wish I had gotten a 2k screen at this size.
If you run cleartype on windows, it will resolve most issues. 125 to 150 zoom will also fix any blurry text (for bad eye sight). I've also seen blurry text from bad video cables, which is why I always recommend the HDMI cables over vga.
I've purchased quite a few of these for older people and when I set them up, I haven't had any blurry text, but I have had defective ones where the backlight died.
You will see blurry words. I have this and wish I had gotten a 2k screen at this size.
This is true, but can be improved by playing around with windows display settings. It is very annoying though so I ended up buying the 2k on the Prime day deal.
I work in IT and agree that 1080p is low for a 27" if you're wanting to gain screen real estate. However, I deploy these to people who have not-so-great vision so that they can have larger font without losing real estate. A 27" monitor with 150% zoom is about the same as a 22"or with 125% it's roughly the same as a 24"
Yeah. This is ideal for people who want things to be bigger because of poor vision, sitting farther away from the monitor or just want them bigger. Scaling on windows 10/11 is better than it has been in the past but can still be problematic in older apps so a physically larger monitor has some benefits for scaling. Obviously you can combine the larger monitor with scaling to make things even larger if needed for poor vision. For people with normal vision at standard distances this will probably be a bit on the big side and might not look as clear because of the larger pixels.
I work in IT and agree that 1080p is low for a 27" if you're wanting to gain screen real estate. However, I deploy these to people who have not-so-great vision so that they can have larger font without losing real estate. A 27" monitor with 150% zoom is about the same as a 22"or with 125% it's roughly the same as a 24"
Yep - I was going to say something along that line. I work at a large office in Tax, and 1/4 of the people are older (50+). This lady received 2 brand new HP 24" 1080p monitors for her cube - and when she turned it on for the 1st time, she was literally like "WHOA!!!" - as if it the best thing she had ever seen.
For 1080p, this is totally fine for most people. We have many tax lawyers who literally just spend time reading up tax laws - 1080p is more than adequate for such task. I do lots of data work and 4K is kind of a must to see as much as data and code as possible on a screen.
It kills me how there are always people in these threads who do not understand that how blurry the monitor is going to be, is a function of size, resolution, and HOW FAR YOU SIT FROM IT.
If you sit 3 feet away from it, it's just fine. If you sit 1 foot from it, you are probably going to see the pixels.
They just parrot what they hear from tech Youtubers.
At least QHD for this size. QHD is perfect 4k is obviously better but it is not worth it. 4k is needed for 32 inch or above. 1080p doesn't do well with 27 inch. Save your money.
You will see blurry words. I have this and wish I had gotten a 2k screen at this size.
If you have good vision, you should see pixelated words instead of blurry words. I guess you have multiple monitors and it's not on 100% view. It's a known issue of Windows. Not the display to blame.
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If you sit 3 feet away from it, it's just fine. If you sit 1 foot from it, you are probably going to see the pixels.
People are getting soft
I've purchased quite a few of these for older people and when I set them up, I haven't had any blurry text, but I have had defective ones where the backlight died.
This is true, but can be improved by playing around with windows display settings. It is very annoying though so I ended up buying the 2k on the Prime day deal.
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For 1080p, this is totally fine for most people. We have many tax lawyers who literally just spend time reading up tax laws - 1080p is more than adequate for such task. I do lots of data work and 4K is kind of a must to see as much as data and code as possible on a screen.
If you sit 3 feet away from it, it's just fine. If you sit 1 foot from it, you are probably going to see the pixels.
They just parrot what they hear from tech Youtubers.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp...lsrc=aw.d
If you have good vision, you should see pixelated words instead of blurry words. I guess you have multiple monitors and it's not on 100% view. It's a known issue of Windows. Not the display to blame.
I bought this for 115$ from Walmart. After 4 months it starts flickering occasionally. Of course the resolution is an issue.