AOC Q2770PQU 27″ PLS Monitor Review

Usage And Performance

Moving up from a 1920 x 1080 resolution to 2560 x 1440 provides a massive amount of additional desktop real-estate to work within. Having used a 2560 x 1600 display prior to this monitor I was a little dubious about the 160px drop in height. The truth is though that I am pleasantly surprised at how little difference this drop in height makes. The width of the display is what makes up the real advantage in moving up from 1920 x 1080. Being able to position two application windows side by side and be able to use them at the same time is the biggest advantage that anyone will find and this is exactly the advantage that I experienced when I took a look at AOC’s own Q2963PM last year.

Display wise I found the image to be crisp and clear out of the box with no adjustments needed to suit my personal preference. This panel may not be quite as bright as other monitors out there on the market when set to 100%, but even when left at 50% as it is out of the box, I had no issues in seeing anything during the daytime when the bright sunshine was about (Having a south-facing room means the sun falls straight onto my desk). During the twilight hours I have not felt any glare or strain on my eyes and this is once again without having to adjust the brightness of the panel.

The colours that the Q2770PQU was able to produce are crisp, clear and don’t appear washed out. Once again this is something that I have come to expect from AOC and I’ve not been let down at all. There is however one little niggle that I feel that I have to point out and this is the automatic selection of a display input. When utilising a single monitor for one or two systems you are naturally going to be using more than one display input which is great as most if not all displays that are available today offer up more than one input type. My gripe though is that when you need to reboot one of your systems, most of the time this involves the display output disconnecting for a brief moment whilst the system restarts. The result of this is that the monitor automatically changes the source to the next available, thus disconnecting you from what you was working on. Now I don’t have a problem with this feature, however it would be nice if there was the option to disable this as when you’re rebooting a system to enter the BIOS for example, the last thing you want to be doing is rushing to change the source. A simple enable / disable auto input selection in the on-screen menus would act as a simple way to resolve the situation.