It just so happens I've been daily driving an old school VA panel this week. It's a budget 34-inch ultrawide and, funnily enough, it provides the perfect foil for Alienware's new 27-inch QD-OLED monitor, the Alienware AW2726DM.
This, too, is a budget offering, albeit in the loftier context of OLED gaming monitors. Yours for $349.99 from Dell's website, this is one of the cheapest gaming OLEDs yet from a big brand. And it does a pretty definitive job of highlighting just how far gaming monitor tech has come in the last few years. Because this Alienware mostly blows that budget VA panel away.
Hold that thought while we cover off some speeds and feeds. This is a 27-inch QD-OLED 1440p panel with a native resolution of 2,560 by 1,440 pixels and 240 Hz refresh. Notably, it's also based on older QD-OLED panel tech from Samsung. That's part of how Alie...
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