You can also choose from these picture presets: Standard, Multimedia, Movie, Game, Text, Color Temp and Custom Color. Productive at every level: Easy Arrange allows you to easily tile multiple applications across one or more screens with 38 pre-set window partitions and the ability to personalize up to five windows, giving you improved multitasking abilities.

Recommended settings: Each preset is tailored quite well for its task. For general use, however, I preferred the standard preset, adjusting only green to about 90 percent. This gave the monitor great color balance, perfect for general use. Photos: When looking at faces and light-colored hair, in the Standard preset the U2412m's colors sometimes dipped ever so slightly into a greenish hue, but the bright colors of clothing and environments popped with vibrancy.

The new U2412M has more rounded and softer edges. The bezel is still made from plastic and the monitor now uses physical buttons instead of touch button on the U2410.

The monitor has been measured and calibrated with a LaCie Blue Eye Pro. We also examine the monitor with the help of our monitorTest. And finally we test the monitor in games, movies etc. Hard drive retention: Hard drive retention is not available on models with a soldered hard drive, including XPS 9315 2in1, Chromebooks or Venue tablets, except the Venue 11 Pro. Displays the error message, "Cannot write folder (folder name) or file (file name)," during writing, or, "Cannot remove folder (folder name) or file (file name),". While erasing, you cannot write or erase in the same folder or file name. Dell U2412M is not a true gaming monitor – no IPS panels offers that experience – but for most gaming, even semi-fast gaming, I see it as a fairly good solution. If you are a serious FPS or racing enthusiast I suggest you look for a 120 Hz TN panel instead. corrected now to leave us with 0% deviance from the target of 2.2 and white point was basically spot on at 6502kUsing the Game preset, Dragon Age II looked excellent on the U2412m with a high vibrancy and dramatic color pop. Same as movies, no obvious color tint problems were present. As stated in the beginning of this review Dell U2412M uses an eIPS panel. eIPS panels have most of the same image characteristics as other IPS variants, which also means that the dirty / crystalized panel coating is present. Some people prefer VA panels because of this. However, if you are used to working in front of an IPS panel, you will have no problem with U2412M. On the other hand; if you feel distracted by the crystalized coating on IPS panels, U2412M is not different from most other IPS based monitors. After calibration we saw very accurate color reproduction with almost zero deviations in either dark or bright areas of the grey scale. Gamma is very close to our 2.2 target and color temperature is almost spot-on.

This box also appears during normal system operation, if the video cable becomes disconnected or damaged. The monitor will enter Power Save Mode after 5 minutesif left at this state. the colour temperature remains similar to the 'standard' mode at ~6500k. The dynamic contrast ratio is

In our Dark Screen test, we did see some light clouding in all four corners of the screen. And by "light" I mean "very little." The U2412m uses an E-IPS panel, which provides it a wider-than-TN viewing angle that fails to match viewing angles seen on higher-end IPS panels. should be fine here with the lower range available. A setting of around 26% should offer you a luminance of ~ 120 cd/m 2. Out of-box measurements show that Dell’s monitor has fairly good color characteristics in the Standard preset. Although the pop-up window disappears during writing, if you eject your media while the LED is still blinking, then you cannot complete your action on the media.