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The onscreen display is one of the best we have seen, to date. Everything is well laid out within submenus and there is no fighting with unresponsive capacitive buttons on the front of the panel either. The tactile feel ensures that moving around the various menu sections is both intuitive and straightforward.
Two of the buttons are used for ‘up' and ‘down' which makes the whole navigation system almost second nature within the space of a few seconds. We were surprised however to note that some of the settings were not available in Adobe RGB and Adobe sRGB modes. There is no way to select colour temperature, gamma or even saturation. Colour correction is also disabled. Therefore we enabled the ‘user mode' and fine tuned the screen to our liking. Not really ideal, especially as the adobe settings can often be ideal for specific environments.
Thankfully, for the most part, the Asus settings out of the box were incredibly accurate, negating the need for a plethora of fine tuning options in the panels, or via software settings. This is because the screen leaves the factory pre-calibrated with a certification printout in the box, much like the Dell U2410.
The PA246Q has a nifty option via onscreen quick fit style grids. By pushing one of the buttons on the panel the screen can display various grids with photo layouts overlaid over the image. We aren't sure a lot of people will use this, but it might be handy within a design bureau or graphics related environment.
Im surprised how ugly it looks, ASUS are normally really into the appearance. its very old fashioned looking.
At least it is a good screen technically
I really dont rate the Dell U2410. from what ive read on forums, the calibrations are often out. I think ASUS will do a better job of the calibration side of things. This looks fantastic. might shortlist it for my screen purchase end of August, but id like to move up in size also to 27inch. Meaning the dell model atm with higher resolution is also on my shortlist. downside? it costs 800 quid.
I like the looks ! nothing wrong with it. im not into the piano finish screens with blue glowing panels etc.
Seems pretty much the perfect screen under £500. I wish ASUS made a 30 inch screen with this technology and 2560 resolution. I swear when I can afford it im moving up in size. my desk isn’t ideal for 3 screens, otherwise id move to that.
I dont like Dell as every screen ive ordered from them in the past has dead pixels.
People might disagree on video cards, Cases, RAM kits, but a pure PC enthusiast would never argue on a durable 1920×1200 10-bit IPS rotating display. Asus is da man! for $3,500, LCS 6990 CF and Proart in eyefinity. hmmmm~~~~~~~~~
I think the looks are appealling. the red stripe is slightly out of place but its not such a big deal. I like the fact they have went for actual buttons. sounds such a silly point to make, but my samsung capactive touch controls drive me nuts.
very sexy screen, bit expensive for me as all I do is game and play with friends online. I like my £180 illyama.
Still nice to see asus moving into the pro market, or maybe they have had thse before!