Ultrathin bezel minimizes the bezel gap in multimonitor usage, enabling easier setup with an elegant viewing experience.

The Dell P3222QE is an excellent monitor if you want a large 4K screen for extra space along with excellent color quality. Its default output is already good enough for regular use, but calibrating it pushes it into prosumer category. It has plenty of useful features, although we don’t like the fact that you have to spend extra to get a pair of speakers. The monitor stand has standard ergonomic features for this class of Dell devices. In the case of the Dell P3222QE, you can change the panel’s tilt from -5 to +21 degrees, rotate 30 degrees left and right, change the height to within 150mm. The panel can be lowered almost to the surface of the stand and this is a big plus! And that’s not to ignore the P3222QE’s image: With a large 32-inch 4K panel you get a ton of sharpness on a big panel, at a DPI that’s just comfortable enough for most people not to need UX scaling, giving you a ton of monitor real estate to work with. Color performance is also great, provided you operate within the sRGB color space. For most people, this won’t be a problem, and might in fact be preferable due to being easier on the eyes, though professional editors may prefer to opt for a high-gamut display if their work demands it.Dell does not make any claims to coverage of DCI-P3—a color space designed for digital video—but we measured it at 90.8%, a good measure for a monitor not geared to that mode. We also measured it as covering 81.2% of Adobe RGB—good for a general-purpose monitor, although photographers working in that space will want to opt for a monitor with more complete coverage—such as the Lenovo ThinkVision P32u-10, which fills 99.7% of Adobe RGB, or a full-fledged professional monitor such as the NEC MultiSync PA311D-BK. Note: Any changes that you make are automatically saved. Whenever you move to another menu item, exit the OSD menu, or wait for the OSD menu to automatically close. I measured the P3222QE’s brightness, contrast ratio, and color accuracy using Portrait Displays' Calman 5color calibration software, a Klein K10-A colorimeter, and a Murideo Six-Gsignal generator. The level of color temperature stability at standard settings turned out to be quite high, and when switching to Custom with large deviations, the white point only increased: the deviations decreased to 1.1 and 2.1%, respectively. The separate “warm” mode Warm proved to be the worst of all, but Cool, despite the sharp increase in color temperature, turned out to be poor only in terms of the maximum deviation of 6.22% found in the darkest measured area. For the post-calibration version, we were able to reduce the mean deviation, but the maximum, with the default settings in it, flew almost twice that of what was achieved in the Custom. We guess they just never meant for this to be a multi-source monitor, which is such a missed opportunity, especially at such a high price.

It is always essential to isolate the monitor while troubleshooting your computer for the following scenarios: The idea of this monitor is that you plug the USB-C cable into your laptop and it handles everything – you get power to charge the laptop and the same cable handles video and other accessories. So when you get home you just plug in the single USB cable and the monitor starts up, connects to your external mouse and keyboard and other devices, and charges your laptop at the same time. The results of this table are the deviations of the points of the gray wedge along the X-axis. They do not affect the vertical axis, and therefore it is possible to assess the presence of spurious shades only by the CIE diagram from the “Gamma curves and gray balance” subsection.The stand uses six rubber feet of various shapes, which do a pretty good job of holding the monitor in one position, mainly due to the heavyweight of the device. If a 4K panel is too big for you and you prefer smaller displays, the Dell P2720DC may be more up your alley. Change the color-setting mode in the Color Settings On-Screen Display Menu (OSD) to Graphics or Video, depending on the application. One feature that is missing from this monitor is built-in KVM switch. Other monitors, such as the Dell U2723QE, allow you to switch between multiple computers from the keyboard (hence the name KVM, short for Keyboard, Video, and Mouse switch). The P3223QE only has one USB input, so while you can connect more than one computer at a time to the three video inputs, you can’t switch between them from the keyboard and keep control of each computer. Decreases the level of hazard blue light that is emitted from the screen to make viewing more comfortable for your eyes.

The Alienware M16 is a powerful gaming laptop that has the performance to spare. Should you consider buying one? Calibrating the Dell P3222QE with a colorimeter lowered its dE average to a fantastic 0.71 which puts it in editing monitor territory. However, colorimeters aren’t always accessible and they are quite expensive for most users. It is only necessary if you are into editing and content creation or if you already have one on hand. The image quality of the P3223QE is excellent – images had clear, bright color and sharp detail. I measured the peak brightness at 335 candela per meter square (cd/m2), which is bright enough for most uses, but not as bright as some. The color is clear and vivid, but this monitor is limited to the sRGB color gamut, so you don’t get support for the wider Adobe RGB or Rec.709 colors. That’s fine for general use, but it would be a problem for photo or video use, because it can’t show the same range of colors as a standard UHD TV. Edit video on this monitor and then show it on your TV and it will look quite different. Show a movie on it and you’ll get muted greens and blues that don’t look natural.

The stand has a noticeable heft to it, and comes with all the essential features we expect on Dell stands: Height adjustments, tilt, swiveling, and rotating to portrait – this is essential on productivity monitors for achieving an ergonomic, healthy posture. Niels Broekhuijsen/Digital Trends Unfortunately, we did not know what matrix was installed in the Dell P3222QE. All we know is that it’s a 4K IPS solution with a slightly increased color gamut and otherwise fairly standard brightness, contrast, viewing angles, and response times. That might be all you need (at least 125%), given the 140 PPI scaling in the system, but some very fast-paced consumers will be able to do without it at all.