Business users who spend eight or more hours a day staring into a computer screen know the value of a desktop monitor that can cleanly display small text while offering a variety of viewing positions. The HP EliteDisplay 271i does both and more. This reasonably priced 27-inch IPS monitor delivers accurate colors out of the box and does a good job of displaying light and dark shades of gray. It also maintains a bright, colorful picture at any angle and has a built-in
USB hub. It's missing an HDMI port, however, and the USB hub doesn't support the newer (and faster) USB 3.0 technology.
Design and Features
There's nothing fancy about the 271i, but like most business monitors it was designed with productivity in mind. The 1,920-by-1,080 IPS panel has a non-reflective anti-glare coating and is housed in a 10.8-pound business black cabinet with 0.75-inch black bezels. A small round HP logo is affixed to the bottom bezel, and five buttons are positioned off to the right.
The cabinet is supported by a black hinged stand that provides a little over 5 inches of height adjustment and 35 degrees of tilt adjustment. It also allows you to rotate the panel 90 degrees in either direction for portrait mode viewing but it doesn't automatically rotate the image. You'll have to use your graphics card's control panel to flip the image. A small round pad on the base lets you swivel the entire monitor (including the base) 360 degrees, but the base is a bit too large and heavy, and the movement is awkward at best. The stand can be removed if you prefer to mount the monitor on a wall using the four VESA compliant mounting holes.
There are two downstream USB ports on the left side of the monitor and one upstream port around back. All USB ports use the older (and slower) USB 2.0 protocol rather than the newer (and faster) USB 3.0 protocol found on monitors like the Acer B296CL and the Dell P2314T. Also at the rear of the cabinet are VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort 1.2 video inputs. You don't get an HDMI port or speakers on this monitor, omissions that would be more glaring if the 271i was geared towards consumers rather than business users.
The 271i has limited picture adjustments. In addition to brightness, contrast, and color temperature you can adjust sharpness, enable video overdrive (to reduce blurring) and dynamic contrast ratio, and set black stretch (black level). Power management consists of a sleep timer and a power saver mode that shuts down the backlight when the monitor detects the absence of a video signal.
HP protects the 271i with a three-year warranty. Inside the box are VGA, DisplayPort, and USB cables as well as a resource CD containing drivers, a user guide, and HP's Display Assistant software. Display Assistant lets you change picture setting using a keyboard and mouse and includes a Desktop Partition utility that lets you manage window partitions. It contains a set of predefined window regions and allows you to create your own custom regions. There's also a Power Saving feature that lets you schedule when the monitor will go into Stand-by mode or Power off mode.
Performance
The 271i's 27-inch IPS panel performed admirably. It displayed all shades of gray from DisplayMate's 64-Step Grayscale test and showed no evidence of tinting or color tracking errors. Viewing angles were wide with no appreciable color shifting or loss of luminance.
Colors looked sharp against the panel's dark black background and were reasonably accurate out of the box. On the chart below each box represents the ideal coordinates for each color, as determined by the CIE (International Committee on Illumination). The colored dots represent the actual measured coordinates taken in our lab. As you can see, red and green are very close to their ideal zone while blue is spot-on. While displaying scenes from the BBC production of Planet Earth on Blu-ray, colors appeared well saturated and skin tones looked natural.
The 271i did a fantastic job of displaying small text on the Scaled Fonts test. Size 7 Arial fonts set to 5.3 points (the smallest font on the test) were crisp and well defined, a big plus for those who wish to view multiple pages on a single screen.
The 271i used 26 watts of power during testing, which is exactly what the 27-inch Viewsonic VG2732m-LED used and a bit more efficient than the HP Envy 27 and the AOC i2757fh, both of which used 30 watts.
The HP EliteDisplay 271i is a good choice for business users who want to move up to a big screen monitor but need to stay within budget. Its ergonomic stand allows you to adjust the screen for the most comfortable viewing position and can rotate the panel 90-degrees. Moreover, its IPS panel displays rich, accurate colors and good grayscale reproduction. Additionally, users who work with multi-page documents will appreciate how the 271i handles small text. For businesses that require more connectivity options and more IT-friendly features, our Editors' Choice for big-screen business monitors, the NEC MultiSync EA273WM, delivers the goods but it's more expensive.
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