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The AOC U28G2XU looks pretty similar to other members of the G2 range – it's made mostly from black plastic, but with a few large red accents thrown in as well, including a strip that runs the length of the monitor's bottom bezel. It personally isn't to my taste, but it is hardly a flashy design so I got used to it pretty fast once it was sat on my desk.
I also appreciate the relatively slim bezels, with just a slightly thicker chin, while the v-shaped base on the stand is fairly compact by modern standards.
Speaking of the stand, this gives the full array of ergonomic adjustments – including 130mm height adjust, 32 degrees of swivel both left and right, tilt from -5 to 21.5 degrees, and 180 degrees pivot functionality, so you could use the screen vertically if you wanted to.
As for the I/O, this is all positioned centrally on the back of the monitor. Starting with the USB hub, there’s one upstream type-B port but no less than four USB 3.2 Gen1 downstream ports, with the yellow one being an always on port.
Display connectors, meanwhile, consist of 2x DisplayPort 1.4 and 2x HDMI ports. The kicker is these are HDMI 2.0 ports rather than HDMI 2.1, which really is one key area where costs have been cut. PC users need not worry as a 4K 144Hz signal can be done over DisplayPort, with a helping hand from Display Stream Compression, but if you were looking for something to also use with a PS5 or Xbox Series X, then this is going to be a limitation.
Lastly, we can also note the five small buttons used to navigate the OSD, which are positioned on the underside of the bottom bezel. This is another area where AOC has cut corners as these buttons can be very frustrating to use and I frequently turned off the screen by accident when trawling through the settings menus. A joystick would be almost infinitely better in my opinion.
