Tech review of the BenQ RD280U programming monitor
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- I am embarrassed to learn now AFTER the video that it’s pronounced Ben-queue! It’s still a great monitor and I remain impressed. I was not paid, but I received a review monitor for the purposes of this review.
LINK to Monitor: benqurl.biz/46...
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I've always pronounced it "ben queue" because the Q is capitalized at the end.
Me too
NOW YOU TELL ME DAN 😂
@@shanselman lol, to be fair, I don't know I'm right either.
@@shanselman Heh... I assumed you'd asked them because of the "sponsorship"... or something like that.
I thought the same thing, but then Scott said "BENK" - and I low key LOVE that pronunciation! Not sure that I care whether it's right or wrong, but that's how I'm saying it from now on!!! Thanks Scott!
Eagerly waiting for your detailed review of these monitors !!
You are making me actually watch a 10 minute video in eekTok framing and lighting. 😭
Thanks for the thorough review!
Thanks!
Received my 3 x RD280U monitors today, they are great. Thanks for the review Scott, I bought them because of this video.
if there was ever a monitor that could have its buttons on the front, it'd be one aimed at programming
Love to see a follow-up to see if these are a keeper!
I went from an ultrawide to a single 27inch 4k. This sounds pretty good. Problem is I do a lot of screen sharing and it’s just much easier with normal aspect ratio for other people to see
@@erikslorenz I have 49inch. With window management I snap windows in a specific region of my screen and use zooms "share part of the screen mode". Works really well
Cool! And btw Scott, for me, you are an influencer! 😀
BenQ selection of displays are amazing. Their Apple studio display competitor are fantastic
I am currently using two of the 24 inch versions of this monitor as my daily drivers. Hands down, they are the best monitors I have ever owned.
I am seriously considering picking up this 28 inch version to use as well. The added ambiance light 💡 in the back will be very handy
Congrats on the monitor, Scott! Thanks for sharing! 😊
Ugh I am so envious as I am waiting for this to release in France. Getting the ErgoArm (UA) model 👍 I saw one in person a week ago and knew instantly I would buy one as I’m a one monitor user and this was easily the best monitor I’ve used in literally years. I only got to use it for a few hours but it was phenomenal and I wanted to steal it 😂 I was a little disappointed it wasn’t 120Hz like modern high end monitors but honestly it didn’t matter to me one iota after I was using it as the panel quality is so so good for text rendering and their calibration from the factory is perfection. Such an amazingly good monitor. Enjoy!
Nice review, Scott. Hope to see a follow up down the line to see your thoughts after having used it for some time. I have an older pair of Dell UltraSharps that I’ve been considering replacing. They’re mostly for coding work but I do some gaming once in a while.
Just got the email from BenQ it is back in stock so I have ordered the ErgoArm model 🥳Now the wait for shipping and delivery which is never a fun experience in France 😂
This would have been a perfect review if only I could see the whole monitor.
Valid. Sorry it was a TikTok
The impact on programming is probably due to the ring light next to the monitor. As an engineer, needed to change my ring light to code more.
I'm really interested in the eye strain part of your future review. I have 3 27" monitors too and the eye strain is severe some weeks.
Surprised that the refresh rate was not mentioned; that's a huge part of the eye strain for me. Their site reports 60hz only. 😕🤔
Thank you for the review!
Since I'm not a gamer, I thought 60Hz was reasonable as it's the "standard" these days
@@shanselmanI use 100 minimum even just for coding. 60 is only a standard because it's cheap.
@@HonestAuntyElle You don't get it. It's no longer CRT. It cannot have any impact whether it is 1hz refresh rate or 100 hz refresh rate. Because it does not have any impact on blinking like in CRT monitors. People learn that because some of you do not know even what is CRT monitor but you behave like LCD was CRT.
@@dawid1803 wrong. LCDs usually strobe a backlight to minimise motion blur.
@@HonestAuntyElle It has nothing to do with refresh rate in LCD. Refresh rate in LCD is just how often it updates the display LCD cells. If you have 1Hz refresh rate and you click something the result will be visible after for example 0,5second. If you have refresh rate 100Hz then you will have to wait 0,005second to see the result on the screen. How does it impact flickering or eye strain?
Those buttons hidden on the underside of monitors are a nuisance. The best ergonomics I've ever experienced in that regard was a Nokia monitor I had many years ago. It had a scroll wheel on the side that you operated with your index finger and a select button exactly where your thumb were naturally resting when operating the scroll wheel.
That aspect ratio is nice. I remember being surprised by the difference when I switched from 16:9 to 16:10... 3:2 sounds even better. If this was pre-WFH, I'd be all over my company to get me a pair of these. Unfortunately, my workstation now doubles as my battle station, and gaming at that aspect ratio might feel weird.
Some fps gamers swear by the old crt resolutions, some even forcing and stretching games to 1080x1080 so they get more FOV in their direct vision. Not sure about refresh rates etc on this monitor, but I wouldn't let the aspect ratio put you out necessarily.
Also can always use it as monitor 2.
16/9 is for watcher, 16/10 and even more square aspect ratio, like the LG ergo DualUP, is for creator. For example if you edit video you can have your content full width and you time under it.
For me it's obvious that it's better for coding. After all many use a second or third monitor in portrait mode...
this looks degen. thanks fo rsharing king. i am intereseted
@shanselman, what's the verdict after 3 months? Sorry if I've missed it amongst the existing comments.
This looks decent, I’m interested.
I would have thought the dark theme mode would make the brightness brighter because dark theme is harder to see if there’s light reflecting off the screen - I sometimes switch my IDE/Editor to light theme if there’s a lot of natural light during the day because it’s easier to see.
Maybe they assume we’re using dark mode at night
Thanks for this, nice review!
My pleasure!
I wish this was filmed normally so you could see the monitor properly. :(
Love your content Scott! But why vertical video? Why watch stuff trhough a gap in the door?
Probably because he pulled it from his tick tok?
Because it came from my TikTok
Apologies @@shanselman Should've noticed. I was so focused on the topic I didn't see the logo. I"m just allergic to vertical videos as they are so "anti-ergonomic" and hard for me to watch.
I agree. The vertical view is annoying af
Looks great, and your colleagues will love being blinded across the table... 😂
Maybe a company can send you a ~$600 27" 4k to compare with the BenQ so you're comparing new technology to new technology. In the pre-4K days I got a Dell 30" monitor and found the extra vertical space was great for graphics work but didn't help in programming; YMMV. The way our eyes are positioned and the idea that shorter methods are better makes me wonder if 400 extra pixels makes much of a difference in programming if two monitors both use recent technology and can be configured to have about the same contrast, etc.
That’s a great question.
I had the same thought. I own a 2024 SAMSUNG 34-Inch ViewFinity S65TC, which has amazing quality. I'm curious how this one compares, as it shares many similar features.
Well if you are a programmer you are on some sort of code editor or IDE., you'd also have the terminal opened up at the bottom, so that extra real estate is an improvement I would have loved to see how it worked with Fancy zones. VS on the left side and a browser on the right side (Most of us have only 1 monitor 😢) I think it would be an immediate DX win.
Man this was the best comment by far for me, it totally makes sense, I was noticing that when I am coding is really rare for me to keep reading the text that is on the bottom, normally the most comfortable position is in the center of the screen, and I am always scrolling to this position.
ummm, I color calibrate not for my coding environment but for color accuracy so that the website I am working on looks like it's suppose to look.
That's cool! You can do that with the Color Profile button and switch between them. Some folks do that also
While youre at it, can you do a desk setup video? ❤🎉
The "Bank" monitor 😂😂
Is the text actually sharper on this as compared to other 4k monitors?
Not paid but you still have to tick the box its a paid promotion. NOT because we think you are bias, we know you're not, but because they provided it for free and you've used it as "content".
Thanks! I found the box. I did all this from YT studio on iPhone and that box apparently is only on desktop. Thank you for the reminder.
When you come to Kenya next, bring those old dells for me😂
For us that don't code all day, I only do tiny script that I mainly copy from others to sort out family photos, what is the benefit of coder only monitor?
Probably nothing. It’s high contrast, it has a cool backlight. But if you’re doing photos I’d look at monitors that focus on color correctness.
Can you do a review on the inputs/outpus and what all they do? I went the other direction and replaced my 3 monitors with a massive 43" Dell U4323QE monitor.
Specifically this monitor due to capabilities of providing power and video over USB-C to my laptop, and that it can display output from two computers at the same time with side-by-side or picture in picture modes. Does the BenQ do anything like that?
No multiple inputs at once. USB-C, HDMI, and DP
Doesnt look like it would multi-portrait nicely with that chin.
Running 4x27" 16:9 1080p portrait in the office, 3x23" 16:9 1080p plus the 15" laptop screen while WFH. 3:2 is like 16:10.5, so 3 of these could be nice to not have bezels dead ahead, but the chins would make them gappy.
I’d agree. This is better as a landscape monitor
The box was way bigger than it had to be 🤔
Maybe it was the video.
Ya the box was NUTS
60hz for 600$ im good. Cant go back to 60hz browsing / scrolling makes pc feel laggy
As a content creator with subscribers in the 100.000s, I think you could afford to improve the visuals of your videos more than this. This feels like my dad wants to show me his new monitor on FaceTime.
I would never go back below 100 Hz. It's night and day compared to 60 Hz which this screen seems to have
does your code compile faster? 🤓
So much faster 😂
Scott, I'm a bit confused here! Is it "Benk" or "Ben Q," with a separated sound for the "Q"? I've always pronounced it "ben queue."
Mistakes were made. By me. 😂
where the K mate
Look, Scott, love you, always.
But turn off the middle monitor. Either the resolution is wrong or you waaaaaaaay too many icons.
It's triggering.
Computer monitors are way to thick. When will we get the ultra thin and light monitors that are easier to transport instead of these heavy thick things
27 inch seems a bit small these days
Surprising. I disagree.
Yeah, I disagree too. If you sit close to it, it’s this huge thing in front of your face. It doesn’t matter how many years have gone by, it’s still big
@@chezchezchezchez I have 32 inch screens, they don't seem that big in front of me anymore ( the first one I got seemed big having come from 27, it was great) but having used a 43 inch, I think I'll go for that next. Seems an odd argument given most devs put multiple monitors in front of their face anyways and always love more vertical height. Extra pixels don't really make much difference at 4k compared to vertical space.
It depends, how far you look monitor
@@GameBacardi I have mine just a little bit more than an arms length away if I put my shoulders back in my chair
60Hz is bad
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60Hz 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️