After some troubleshooting, trying various hubs to connect the monitor, laptop, and signal generator, I checked the laptop's USB-C port to find that it supports data transfer only, not DisplayPort over USB.

Case in point: When it came time to do the I1601FWUX's color and brightness testing, I was unable to get our testbed PC to recognize the panel when I connected a cable between them. A single USB cable connects your laptop to the directly to the display, completely eliminating the need for extra media cables and a power supply. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors. My review unit’s uniformity was good, too, without large blotches or variances in brightness that might cause the contrast to appear lower across portions of the display.Sometimes a traditional monitor is not what you’re really looking for, the more so if you live in a small apartment and you can’t have a complete desktop layout. Choosing a monitor is not an easy decision to make, and not just because of the large number of variations in resolution, refresh rates, sizes and connectivity options. With i-Menu, you can control brightness, contrast, and other settings, as well as pivot the image onscreen 90 or 180 degrees, from your computer in software rather than by messing with the power/OSD button.

Image quality is pretty good; colours are bright and fairly well saturated, but green shades are less accurate than reds and blues on screen.You can adjust the stand to change the angle because it just folds out, but not always enough to deal with the problem. These clean high quality materials are then sent directly to our recycling partner so they can be put back into the raw material streams. The versatile USB-C input is another perk, but the lack of additional ports limits the monitor’s versatility. inch IPS screen with added multi-touch capability and is a worthy contender in the best portable monitor conversation given its qualities and who it's made by.

The menu is opened with a quick press of the power button when the power is on, and additional quick presses move through the options. Whatever you are viewing, with Full HD it will be displayed in rich detail without requiring a high-end graphics card or consuming a lot of your system’s resources.When the display is in use, the cover acts as a flexible screen holder, in portrait or landscape mode.