The stand is big! You can get a good impression of the size in the top photo, with my 16-inch MacBook Pro next to it. The front has top and side bezels around 1cm thick, and slightly more than that at the bottom. Bottom line: it’s plastic, but doesn’t look plasticky. But even if you will, it’s inoffensive enough. It’s plastic, but from the front you’re only seeing pleasingly slim bezels, and as my desk is against the wall, I’m never going to see the back. I have room for the monitor, my HomePods, and the MacBook Pro – which I initially placed underneath the monitor in clamshell mode as I, fairly obviously, have no need for it as an additional screen!
Indeed, I no longer have room for the fan that used to sit on my desk and had to bring forward a plan to replace it with a ceiling fan. Once unpacked and placed on my desk, no surprise that the overwhelming impression of this thing is that it is huge! It almost fills the width of my desk. Getting it assembled and onto my desk was much easier than I’d expected. I’d fully expected it to be a two-person job, but that turned out not to be the case. There are two polystyrene grab handles to help lift it onto the desk, then these slide off the ends. A Thunderbolt-compatible USB-C cable is included, along with HDMI ones. But it does feel rock-solid when installed. Just four of these hold the weight of the monitor. The screws do look alarmingly underspecced! There’s a quick-start guide with clear illustrations numbered flaps to open in sequence – and you fit the stand to the monitor while it’s still in the box. In fact, Dell makes the process totally painless. I did so to see what I was letting myself in for. If you want to see the unboxing process in detail, watch this video. Thin bezels, single-cable connection, and the ultra-wide format I fell in love with a couple of years ago.Īnd, at four feet wide and 49 inches of diagonal screen, I was certainly expecting to be wowed by it …
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The problem was, my perfect monitor didn’t exist then and – one Mac later – it still doesn’t.īut the Dell UltraSharp 49 looked like it would tick a lot of boxes. I’ve been wanting a new monitor ever since I got my 15-inch MacBook Pro way back in 2016.
After explaining my thinking last time, it’s time for my Dell UltraSharp 49 review to begin in earnest.