Dell UltraSharp U2412M 24-Inch Screen LED-Lit Monitor, Black

Lets start out by describing what I do with this thing: I use CAD software and play games from the same machine. Im not a pro video or photo editor; please understand that Im not. I do not/have not owned dozens of expensive monitors, although I have worked with a few! This things got everything that counts: 1920x1200 resolution at a true 60hz, not 59.754hz. Its got a decent response time; actually, its slower than my last monitor, but I cant tell the difference, even when gaming online. My mouse and internet connection are by far more damaging to my gaming experience, which is to say not much. Games and pictures look very nice on this, and the resolution is a nice break from my laptops cheap 1366x768 gloss screen. The screen itself is good - not incredible, but very nice. The anti-glare coating produces a funny effect that I notice when staring blankly at my screen... In other words, I dont notice it too much. Despite the coating, I find myself turning the brightness all the way up when faced with computers mortal enemy: sunlight. Still, it does a much better job (and is WAY brighter) than my old monitor. The colors are true - by true, I mean I dont have to tweak my nvidia driver settings as much. The blacks and whites will impress anyone whos used to a normal monitor, and probably wont disappoint anyone whos used to a good IPS. Stand quality is good, much better than a cheap monitor. The vertical riser is nice - it travels about eight inches up and down. I really like the stands ability to turn the monitor without moving the base! Very nice if you want to turn the screen and show someone what youre looking at, range is about 120 degrees. The up-down screen tilt is very good, with a powerful spring to keep it from drooping. The good: + Good picture, very nice in this price range. + Well built stand. + Functional, still looks good. + 16:10 aspect ratio (mostly a personal thing). The not good: - Might be too expensive to justify versus a regular monitor. - Not 2560x1600 resolution. Asking too much? Probably. - No HDMI input. Conclusion (TL;DR): If youre looking at this monitor from the average persons point of view: Im happy with this monitor, though I think it cost a bit too much for what I got. Im cautiously going to say that Id buy it again, just because of the 16:10 aspect ratio and the good colors and contrast. If you are actually in the market for a professional IPS panel, please consider reading more reviews first, but do consider this panel.

I was a bit hesitant at first (I am a student and have a limited budget), but decided my laptop screen alone was too small for what I needed to do (simultaneously webcasting, typing notes, and having reference material up). Since the monitor was on sale, I decided to give it a go. As my first IPS monitor, after about a weeks use at 8+ hours/day, I must say it is fantastic. The colors are rich, images and text are clear, and there is a certain vibrancy/clarity that is not apparent in other monitors I have used. The stand enables the height to be easily adjusted, and there are a variety of ports to connect your computer (refer to the description - this monitor does not have HDMI). I do not notice any of the abnormalities referred to by other reviewers such as significant yellowing or distortions due to the anti glare screen. Not to mention my desk is right next to a window, yet I can comfortably use this screen without glare problems. As a long time computer user (over 15 years), I must say this is the best monitor I have ever used and I would agree its probably the best in this price range. Also realize that this monitor has a 1900x1200 native resolution which is a plus (better vertical viewing space than the more common 1900x1080 monitors).

The quality of the monitor is excellent regarding functionality. It has the best controls that I have seen on monitors that I have used. The quality of the pictures is excellent (4 out of 5 stars), but the quality of the text is 3 out of 5 stars. I guess I got spoiled with the quality of retina displays on Apple products that is not available on PCs. My test consists of writing the word milling or optimum using Arial font. With anything at or below 7 pt. size, the i and the l become a blur. You could improve this by 50% spending $500 to $600 for a better monitor that also may require an upgrade on your video card depending on the capabilities of your current card. The only other negative that did not affect me much is the lack of HDMI port. For now I will keep the monitor and check the 4K resolution monitors once the prices come down since that move will require a video card upgrade. I bought the monitor from Amazon on August 10 2014 and the manufacturing date is June 2014, Revision A01. I have not seen any of the yellow tint mentioned by other reviewers. CORRECTION: I guess that is the problem with all the reviews. Many times what we report as a defective product is a result of our own mistakes. I connected the monitor to my laptop and the text resolution is much better. I have what is supposed to be a powerful video card on my desktop (Nvidia GTX 285) and the laptop is producing sharper text than the desktop. Tested with different cables and monitors and the result is the same. So My issue is with the video card. I increased the monitor rating from 3 to 4 stars. Is not 5 stars because I can see the granularity of the pixels. Something that could be better in more expensive monitors with pixel size of 0.23mm instead of the 0.27mm this monitor has. I am still keeping the monitor because of the price/performance ratio. I would recommend it if you want to stay under $275 for a 24 monitor. UPDATE 16 Sep 2014: Exactly a month and 10 days after purchasing the monitor the DVI-D input stopped working. I had one computer and two laptops each connected to one of the 3 inputs available in the monitor. The VGA and DisplayPort inputs continue working but the DVI-D does not work any more. Because it is over a month I cannot exchange it with Amazon. Called DELL customer support and they will replace it with a refurbished unit. My customer satisfaction is going down hill. I will not buy another monitor from Amazon unless I add an extended warranty which typically is not recommended to get anyway. I will think twice if I ever plan to purchase a large screen TV from Amazon since I will be running the same risk.

I bought this monitor for use with photo editing. I calibrated the monitor right away using a spyder pro. The difference was small, but now it is accurate. After I started using this monitor, I realized my eye strain was much less than original LCD screed that came with the computer. This monitor is also very sharp, you can see amazing details. After using it for 4 months Im very happy, my only down side is, the plain white (websites etc.) look a bit warm, before and after calibration. Also on right edge and left edge there is a little color shift (pinkish on the right greenish on the left) when looking at plain white screen, (browser, word document etc.) The shift is barely noticeable, and you really have to look to see it, but its there. It doesnt interfere with my editing at all, but its worth bringing up, and hence 4 out of 5 stars. Anti glare coating is amazing, and I have not experienced the frosted look if you crank up the brightness all the way, which is way too bright for any situation, that is the only time I see a bit of frosted look Overall I would highly recommend the monitor, colors are sharp crisp and vivid. Sharpness is amazing, and there is very little eye strain when using it. If it werent for a very slight color shift from left side to right side of the screen (Im very picky like that) I would give the monitor a solid 5 star review.

I waited a couple months to allow me to make an honest evaluation of this unit. I can honestly say that after a great deal of research on competitive monitors, I am very satisfied with my DELL U2412M. My unit was a refurbished unit that arrived well-packaged and exactly as described (Excellent condition). I could find no external or cosmetic problems on the unit. The one minor disappointment I had was that it did not come with a DVI cable. The U2412M was very easy to set up and easy to operate. Once installed, I typically leave it on and simply let it go into sleep mode when my computer is off. One of the most important features of the monitor was the way graphics and text looked and on this one, both are excellent. (I tried a less expensive Dell unit before the U2412M and the color was all wrong even to my untrained eyes.) I have not attempted to perform a full calibration of the monitor yet as for now it looks fine for my daily use (mostly office work and video games), but I may look into calibrating the unit later. One thing prospective buyers should be aware of is that this monitor is very bright! As others have noted in the reviews, you should expect to turn this monitors brightness way down if you expect to use it for any amount of time. I think I have mine cranked down to about 40% at the moment and that still seems bright at times. The controls on the U2412M are a little tricky to get used to as they are on the lower right corner of the screen. This means they are out of the way (which is both a plus and a minus on my setup). It is sometimes awkward to manipulate the buttons on the bezel edge and I find myself tempted to push the screen based arrows (but as this screen is not touch-sensitive, that doesnt do anything). Other than that minor thing to get used to, I could not be more satisfied with the monitor, so far. My last monitor (an Acer X214W) lasted nearly 4 years and I am hoping this Dell U2412M will last me at least that long. If I had it to do over, I would still buy one of these again and recommend the U2412M to others looking for a reasonably priced monitor with great performance.

Coming from TN panels, I was really impressed with this monitor. Considering that its a eips instead of the other. I used to game on 3 TN panels on eyefinity portrait and I thought that was amazing. I decided to upgrade because the horrible viewing angle. So, I bought 3 of these bad boys for eyefinity portrait. At first I was a bit skeptical about it being an IPS panel that stuck with 60hz refresh rate and 8ms would be bad for fps. Thats not the case. Powered by two 6970s with the combined resolution of 3600x1920(no bezel correction) I was blowned away by the crisp quality of the color when playing BF3 and Starcraft 2. However I did notice that its a bit slower than my old TNs when it come to ghosting, but thats a good trade off for better colors. I though the colors are good right off the box but I was wrong, after calibration(I downloaded the ICC from TFT Central and make sure the color temp are around 6500k which can be change in monitor factory menu) I notice that they looks a lot better than before. Pros: 1)1920x1200 (extra pixels are always welcome in my book) 2)Color reproduction for a e-IPS 3)Awesome viewing angle especially in portrait 4)Good for gaming also 5)USB ports are very handy 6)Very good stand and good construction Cons: 1)Anti-glare coating are very aggressive in this monitor. When I did my dead pixels test and I notice that the monitors seems dirty so I took a piece of cloth and wipe them down. However its the AG coating that make the monitors appear to be dusty or grainy. To me its kinda annoying, some might not find it annoying at all. I love white background so the AG coating are a bit distracting. 2)Backlight bleed are a bit strong in this monitor. Being an LED, I understand that you cant avoid it. Out of the 3, one seem to be worse that the other 2. 3)Thick bezels are one thing that eyefinity/surround gamer tend to stay away from. I agree that the bezel are a bit thick in these but you cant avoid it. After playing for more than a month, youll get use to it. You can also debezel them but that will void your warranty...unless youre good.... 4)No HDMI. Bummer but I learnt to live without it. Overall, I love my U2412m. Its a completely different experience when playing on portrait. You can feel more immersible and with good viewing angle you cant go wrong with these. One thing to note is to good look at it locally before you pull the trigger.

Purchased this to pair with a Late 2013 15 MacBook Pro Retina. I chose this monitor, as opposed to the U2414H, because it has a DVI connector and I didnt want to deal with the Mac thinking it was a TV, which has been reported with other monitors that only support HDMI or DisplayPort. I was able to plug this Dell into my MiniDisplayPort to DVI Apple adapter without issue and the Mac recognized the full resolution right away. The model number is U2412M rev. A01 manufactured in June 1014. Many have reported problems with a yellow tint to this monitor and they found it to be unacceptable. I was afraid that I might also be one of those people. When compared with the MacBook Retina screen (which is much higher quality) the Dell did seem to have a yellow tint. I tried to use the Apple color calibration tools and the settings on the display to correct it, but I could never find the right adjustments to get it to look right. I thought I might have to return it and try my luck with a different panel, but I was able to find a color profile on http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/icc_profiles.htm that worked very well. I am not sure that it completely eliminated the yellow tint, but it did pull the display colors more in line with the Retina panel and that was really all I was looking for. It looks great now and I dont notice a yellow tint anymore. I am not a photo or graphic artist so I am not hung up on calibration per say, but I dont want to be distracted by stark color differences when starring at both screens. The ICC profile did the trick for me. So far... I am a happy owner.

First Impressions I use the monitor for business applications (MS Office mostly Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint, plus Internet browsing, etc... Id like to have a larger screen with higher resolution such as the Dell 27 inches, but I think that at the present time, this is where the sweet spot for performance vs value is (24 inches). Ive been using a Dell UltraSharp 2405 monitor, which I got from Dell as a replacement when the original died one month or so short from the expiration date of its 3 years warranty, and which is working quite well after about 3+ years, but I had read positive comments about the U2412M in CNET and other web sites, and was considering upgrading. However, I had also read conflicting comments here in Amazon about the anti-glare coating, and about color accuracy. Ive always thought that the anti-glare screen of the DELL 2405 was perfect for me and Im not very concerned with color accuracy (within reason) as Im not into photography, graphic arts or anything like that... But when you read reviews like that, it makes you pause. In any case, I decided to try it and decide for myself, and I am glad I did. For what I do, and at this price point, this monitor is just fine. No issue at all with the anti-glare coating. I cant tell if theres a difference or not versus the coating on the Dell 2405. In fact, had I not read about it, I would not even known anything about that. And for my business application, the default factory-set color calibration is also OK. I do not plan to tweak it. The images are very sharp. Fine and/or small text is easy to ready. I also like the new base and support arm better, and the fact that its so much lighter. Congratulations DELL! Having said that, it does not have some of the connections available in the Dell 2405 (i.e. SD card ports), but it has others such as DisplayPort. An HDMI port would have been nice to have, but since I use a Dell E Latitude docking station, I am using the DisplayPort and/or DVI port. It comes with a power cable (of course) and also a USB cable, a VGA cable and a DVI cable. At this point in time, Id rather had seen a DVI and a DisplayPort cable inside the box, and not the legacy VGA cable, but it may be helpful for other users. Not an issue anyway. A few days after having received the new monitor, I decided that for this price it was worth having a dual set, so I ordered another one. Now my EXCEL spreadsheets can finally stretch as wide as necessary, or I can work in two applications side-by-side. Nice and worth it.

I had a 24 LCD Dell monitor for a while that treated me well. From everything Ive read and experienced, Im a believer in Dell monitors. This new LED monitor is no exception. The image is bright and vividly clear. Its such high quality, in fact, that it makes the age of my older monitor (now owned for 6 years) very apparent. The old monitor has that sepia effect creeping in, and the new monitor has made that so clear that its really starting to get under my skin.. Dells evil plot to get me to order another one? Maybe.. Needless to say, this is an excellent product. Dell monitors are long-lasting and reliable, and this one provides the sharpest image Ive ever had with a computer. I think that LED technology makes a big difference with text, so websites really pop on this monitor. Considering my old 24 LCD Dell Monitor cost me $650 at the time, Im quite happy with my investment in the new Dell UltraSharp LED. Im also really happy to finally be on the dual monitor train. As a guy working behind a computer screen for eleven years, its astonishing that I havent yet. Already its making a significant difference in my productivity. At this price, this level of image quality and Dells reputation of building stellar displays, I dont see how you could go wrong. Order it now!

Very nice quality monitor for the price. Color calibration appears straight on, great wide viewing angles typical of IPS panels, with no dead or stuck pixels whatsoever and absolutely no backlight bleed on the one I received. Refresh rate is low at 8ms, so Id expect some slight ghosting on fast FPS games - absolute hard core gamers probably need to look at another brand or model. Dells base is the best designed I have ever owned. The landscape to portrait pivot function of the base is very nice and allows you use the monitor vertically instead of horizontally - very useful when proofing documents. The only thing I dont like about it is that it is very easy to scratch the base when pivoting if you dont remember to tilt the bottom of the monitor outwards as you pivot it (a minor quibble, and more user error on my part than an actual design fault). Packaging from Amazon was great - Dells box (which itself was built like a tank and held the monitor screen securely within cardboard and not foam restraints) was packaged securely within a second Amazon box padded with paper. Cant ask for much more than that. All in all, a great monitor for the price.