Customer Reviews for Philips - E-Line 271E1S 27" IPS LED FHD FreeSync Monitor (HDMI, VGA) - Black
Customer Rating
4
Macbook M1 OS 13.0 cannot set HiDpi
on September 13, 2022
Posted by: Yud-Rei
Gender:Male
Very good monitor indeed. Works with MacBook M1 but needed to set "scaled" resolution to get the monitor's native resolution as such, text is small. Cannot set HiDPI as the Retina display to only scale the text and not the resolution. Also, refresh rate is maxed at 30Hz - ah?! Though it's great for development to see Unity, VS Code, browser and game at the same monitor. I'd very much like to see a better Apple support for this great monitor.
I use this monitor as my second monitor. It is excellent and has very good value for what it offers. I find the colors vibrant and accurate. You need to install its driver to get the 75Hz refresh rate. Look at my video for this.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Nothing at all wrong with the monitors! I own three and they do the 4K job as needed. I am happy with them.
I do think the monitor works great when on - but finding it doesn't sleep effectively - the monitor continues to flicker in the standby screen / doens't ever fully turn off unless you manually power-off.
Wake also sometimes doen't pickup - sometimes need to unplug the power soruce and re-plug to detect computer.
I've owned the monitor for almost a year now and it's one of the best monitors I've sat in front of. It's clear, sharp and bright. Multiple inputs so it works on both my Mac and PC.
I had one of these for work. When I changed jobs, I went back to using my 27" flat, lower res ASUS monitor. The ASUS is a _great_ monitor, but it's not all *THIS*. The curve and the high DPI combine to relieve eye strain and the 32" of 4K gives you lots of real estate for organizing dozens of windows. Put it on an articulated arm. You'll love it!