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Dell-P4317Q

Multi-monitor desktops are popular with both professional computer users and enthusiast gamers who want a more immersive widescreen experience, but setting upward these systems can be somewhat difficult. It's generally recommended that you use 3 of the same display to minimize issues related to mixing and matching dissimilar resolutions, likewise equally to avert differences in color gamut and calibration from changing how work appears from one monitor to the other.

Dell's newest P4317Q (also known as the Dell 43 Multi-Client Monitor) is designed to alleviate these problems. While the display tin can run equally a single monitor at 3840×2160, its real strength is as a bezel-less option to brandish upwards to iv separate desktops, each at 1080p.

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Each of the iv quadrants tin can be running a different desktop.

Here's how Dell describes the feature:

Designed in conjunction with fiscal services customers, the Dell 43 Multi-Customer Monitor gives traders a large, crisp viewing experience on a 43-inch (108 cm) screen that delivers Ultra HD 4K2 or four carve up Total Hard disk resolution screens without the break of bezels, also as a matte finish that reduces glare and strain on eyes…. Importantly, the P4317Q was designed to be energy efficient. By replacing four monitors with a single display, the Dell 43 Multi-Client Monitor provides a xxx percent energy consumption savings. The P4317Q as well features dual 8W speakers.

The visitor as well advertises that the P4317Q includes an RS232 port for remote direction, though I'thousand uncertain why a monitor needs a serial port. Other ports include DisplayPort one.ii, miniDisplayPort, dual HDMI 1.four ports, a legacy VGA 15-pin DSUB, and a 4-port USB 3.0 hub. The P4317Q can besides accept input from multiple sources simultaneously — if you had four split up systems you needed to control, you could run all four from the aforementioned monitor simultaneously provided that you accept the advisable video ports on each system. It's non articulate, still, if the Enhanced Dell Brandish Manager offers any type of KVM support or whether y'all'd need to provide that via separate peripherals (presumably yous would).

It's besides not articulate from the product literature whether the display can support multiple desktops at non-standard resolutions — for example, 3840×1080 or 1920×2160. This would divide the panel into two divide partitions either horizontally or vertically rather than iv quadrants. The gamer in me tin't help wishing that Dell had a display that could match up to 3 monitors. The ability to game in 5760×1080 or 7680×1440 in one panel with no bezels to muck things upwards would be amazing — though the price tag on the panel would never be inexpensive.

The Dell P4317Q monitor is available beginning today for $1,349.99.