Dell U2711

27" iMac production halted due to display issues

It's an anonymous source that has yet to be substantiated, but it makes some sense given the depths of problems Apple has had with the 27-inch iMacs, including a flickering and yellow-tinted screen. There's no point in continuing to manufacture a product that you know is faulty, especially if the eventual fix could potentially involve a recall.
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Disconcerting.
 
It is true; Daily Tech reported the same thing over a week ago. The thing that is wierd is that the early iMac 27 inch screens were OK. It really sucks, because it is not hard to guess this will effect the new NEC PA series as well. I am no Apple fan buy, but if they finally put LG in a position where they have to clean up there act that would be a great benifit to all of us. Dell will just keep shipping no matter how sloppy LG's panals are.

LG and Samsung both need a good slap up aside the head where QA is concerned.

Dave

Found the link:http://www.dailytech.com/An+Apple+o...w+Discoloration+Fail+to+Boot/article17398.htm
 
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Yup, NEC's 27" will cost $$$$$$.

And that rumor of 27" iMac production being halted is bad news. I guess I dodged a bullet, mine looks great, but now it means I may be waiting even longer for NEC's 27" to come out.
 
Has anyone's shipping status changed yet? Mine says it should be delivered tomorrow, but it shows as 'not shipped'.
 
Ulrick28 said:
Has anyone's shipping status changed yet? Mine says it should be delivered tomorrow, but it shows as 'not shipped'.
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I placed an order, but mine has been in "pending" stage for at least a day. :confused: Darn it! But when I was going through the shopping cart, estimate delivery was for tomorrow. Hmm.
 
It says right on the order page: PRELIMINARY ship date: 2/18/10.

Just because it says something sooner elsewhere, doesn't make it so. And the fact that it hasn't shipped yet confirms it. And even 2/18/10 is preliminary.
 
I actually placed my order by phone (not through the website) so didn't see the prelimary ship date. They quoted me shipping today.
 
In that case I would be pissed, regardless of what the site says! I'm sure if you call them they'll and say something they'd just offer to cancel the order though.
 
I place my order on 4 days ago and the preliminary shipping date then was 2-14-10, and with each passing day the preliminary ship date is pushed back another day. I suspect this will continue until they have them in stock.
By the way, Dell now lists them together with their other monitors when ordering, as opposed to having to do a "U2711" search to find an order window
 
yep . . . sure enough . . . pushed back again . . .to the 19th
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Funny, I noticed that as well. The monitor is now available through Dell's Home site, although you have to search for it.
 
shawnoen said:
It says right on the order page: PRELIMINARY ship date: 2/18/10.

Just because it says something sooner elsewhere, doesn't make it so. And the fact that it hasn't shipped yet confirms it. And even 2/18/10 is preliminary.
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Owned.
 
I ordered 2 today, and right at checkout it said estimated delivery date 2/10/2010
 
Just got shipping email on both mine today! Says del scheduled for next Tuesday!
 
If I was gonna run 3 of these I would have to disable SLi to use all 3 at the same time right? Is that gonna change with nVidia Surround?
 
Mine is now sitting in it's shipping box in my cube at work. Can't wait until I can get home :)
 
hornkiku23 said:
Considering the u2410 has the worst grainy coating of them all I fear this monitor is going to be a big pile of sparkle now that it is confirmed matte.

I am so tired of the coating on my 3007wfp.
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Agreed --- can someone who just got their u2711 please confirm if it uses the exact same matte screen (i.e. grainy sparkle) that the u2410 has?? Slightly less, slightly more? Would be great to know.
 
I'll take pictures in the morning (too late right now). It does have the matte finish on the screen but not as bad as my 3007 at work(the grain is there if you look for it). The colors are much better than my viewsonic that I use at home.

The monitor does suffer from IPS glow in the lower corners. The OSD is pretty cool if a bit barebones. Again I'll take pictures tomorrow (I left my iPhone charging at work ;)

If you don't like the matt coating might want to wait for the apple 27" to appear (not the 27" iMac)
 
The U2711 looks very promising but the 16:9 ratio is a little let down for me.
 
RadXge said:
The U2711 looks very promising but the 16:9 ratio is a little let down for me.
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Yeah I agree. 16 by 9 does not make sense at this size; the width gets out of hand as compared to the hight. S-IPS white glow gets magnified to where you have to sit further away from the screen and that defeats the large screen size.

They really need to add a ATW polarizer to both 27 and 30 inch screens.

Dave
 
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Yeah I agree. 16 by 9 does not make sense at this size; the width gets out of hand as compared to the hight. S-IPS white glow gets magnified to where you have to sit further away from the screen and that defeats the large screen size.

They really need to add a ATW polarizer to both 27 and 30 inch screens.

Dave
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Considering the panel is basically a 30" 16:10 panel with 160 horizontal pixel lines chopped off the bottom, to view this 27" you'd be sitting at the same distance as a 30". The width would be the exact same as the 30", so if you have to sit further back on a 27" 16:9 you'd have to do the same on a 30" 16:10. Aspect ratio has no bearing on viewing distance and effective viewing width/angles of a monitor.

But yeah, they need polarizers, period. Too much skimping going on.
 
MentatYP said:
Considering the panel is basically a 30" 16:10 panel with 160 horizontal pixel lines chopped off the bottom, to view this 27" you'd be sitting at the same distance as a 30".
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Actually it isn't. The pixel pitch is much smaller (too small for a monitor this size IMO) than on a 30" panel, so it isn't as wide, it about 2" narrower than 30".

Ignoring the pixel count for a moment. It is more like 24" 16:10 with more width.

16:10 is a more productive ratio. 16:9 is more of an entertainment ratio. Other than in a TV I would always prefer 16:10.
 
Look at it the other way arround. A 27" 16:10 is not as wide as 30", so you can sit a little closer before you are effected by white glow. This matters when you have such a small dot pitch.

The bottom line is that the wider a display is the more obvious white glow becomes, and the tighter the dot pitch is the closer you need to be to the display.

For me it is a bad mix.

Dave
 
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Does anyone have some pics of their delieved screens yet? Is it gonna be possible to run 3 of these in an SLi setup without disabling SLi every time you come out of a game? Will nVidia surround change that at all?
 
RGSPro said:
Does anyone have some pics of their delieved screens yet? Is it gonna be possible to run 3 of these in an SLi setup without disabling SLi every time you come out of a game? Will nVidia surround change that at all?
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Look. If nVidia is going to make something that will compete with Eyefinity and have SLI, then you'll find out about it.

Just buy AMD and be done with it.
 
I took 2 photos http://home.comcast.net/~ulrick28/site/

(I took more, but they all turned out pretty bad). I am using a 5870 crossfire setup (got the second card today). XFX and Asus cards.

When I got the monitor one the bolts that you screw the DVI 1 connection into was loose (it flew out of the package when I opened it). Was easy to fix (just screwed it back in) but was a little disconcerting. No dead pixels and I am very happy with the monitor so far. I thought the IPS glow was going to bother me, but it doesn't show up unless I view a solid black screen. I could also fix it by raising the monitor a bit (will need a monitor stand for that since the monitor cannot be raised very high).
 
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