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Eve Spectrum is an extremely stylish monitor, no doubt about it. It's very minimalistic in its design and nothing about it makes it look like a ‘gaming' display – there's no RGB, no aggressive angles or curves, and no tacky logos. Instead it offers extremely thin bezels, a monochrome colourway and a fairly svelte overall thickness. If someone told me the Spectrum was Apple's first gaming monitor, I wouldn't think they were lying.
Part of the clean aesthetic does come from the stand, and as a reminder, this is not included in the $799 price for the display itself and will set you back another $99. The benefit to this approach is if you already have a VESA 100 wall mount or monitor arm, you're not wasting any money on a stand you don't need or won't use. If you don't already have your own stand but don't want to spend $99 on one, Amazon has a ton of options.
If you do buy the included stand however, which is made of a sturdy dark grey metal, then you get a range of ergonomic adjustments including 122mm of height adjust, tilt from -7 degrees to 23 degrees, as well as 90 degree rotation/pivot functionality, so you can use the display vertically if you want. The only thing missing is swivel, but with the compact, rectangular base to the stand, you can easily move the screen about.
Round the back, there's a raised piece of the monitor, and here is where Eve has placed all the ports and connectors. This starts with a USB hub on the left-hand side of the raised section, offering 2x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A downstreams, 1x USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, and a 3.5mm audio jack. On the bottom edge, there's the USB Type-B upstream port, another USB-C port which supports DisplayPort 1.4 and up to 100W charging, and the monitor power input.
Finally, on the bottom edge but over to the right, we have the full-size video inputs – 2x HDMI 2.1 and 1x DisplayPort 1.4a. And yes, we have confirmed with Eve that both HDMI ports offer the full 48Gbps bandwidth.
The only other thing to mention is a small joystick placed centrally on the back of the panel, with a power button below it.
