Dell S3219D 32" Monitor

So this is a tough one for me. I have not decided if I will keep it or not. First off a few things: 1). If you are going to hook this up to an iMac, buy a 6 foot mini display port to display port cable. I bought the three foot cable and it was about 2 inches to short to but this monitor on the left side of my iMac. So I decided to use an HDMI cable until I got get a six foot mini DP to DP cable in. That lasted all of 15 minutes. Which brings me to point #2 2). Do not use an HDMI cable. I did not have the issue that others had mentioned about not being able to get full native resolution. That came up no problem. However, as soon as I hooked up the HDMI cable I could see another problem. The colors were horrible. I played with the various color spaces and couldn’t get anything that worked. So I got out my ColorMunki and did a full calibration. It was ok, but still just really couldn’t stand the colors. This is when I first learned about the issue with the YPbPr Color format. If you hook up this monitor to an iMac with an HDMI cable, it defaults to this format. You can override it and change it to RGB, but it immediately looks horrific. There is a workaround you can do through terminal and recovery mode, but I really didn’t want to go to that much trouble for a monitor I wasn’t even sure I was going to keep. So I rearranged my iMac and the Monitor (which takes longer than you think when you have neatly bundled the cables for 9 different peripherals) just so I could try it out with the mini DP to DP cable. Which leads me to the next point. 3). The color format defaults to RGB as soon as you hook it up with a mini DP to DP cable and looked much much better. It still on the lower end of what I consider acceptable, but it was acceptable and drastically better than using the HDMI (to the point I wouldn’t even consider using an HDMI cable on this monitor). I recalibrated with the ColorMunki and again saw another improvement. The ColorMunki really had to dim down the monitor to get the white balance right, but it did get it right. I manually increased the brightness (The monitor does not get overly bright in my opinion on full blast) to what I could consider acceptable, which threw off the color balance slightly, but it’s still acceptable. So having done all this the color was finally useable. Which brings me to the next point. 4). I’m not sure what other people are seeing or if I’m just extremely picky, but I definitely would not use the word “sharp” to describe text on this monitor and definitely wouldn’t add the words “tack” or “razor” in front of it. Before this setup i used two additional 27” monitors that were both 1920x1080. I considered the text on them fuzzy and on the very low end of tolerable, but I did all my main work on the iMac and used the other two monitors to keep my email, iMessage, and our company management software open, so I lived with it. Switching over to this monitor from those, I would consider this marginally better. It’s not as fuzzy as the 27” monitors, but it is just fuzzy enough that I find it annoying. It’s like looking at a photo that is just slightly out of focus. You keep asking yourself “is that in focus” and you zoom in and nope, it’s not. That’s the best way I can describe it. I think I’m going to be able to tolerate it, but I’m not 100% sure yet. I have to wonder what the text would look like with a 4K monitor hooked up to this. I played around with zooming in an out and it felt like using command+ to increase the font one time in Chrome made it a little better. Same with iMessage. So what’s the verdict? I’m honestly not sure. The price is great. It looks well built. I’m not impressed with the brightness. You definitely need to use the display port if you’re hooking up to an iMac. And then finally you have to decide how important sharp text is for you. I’m still on the fence over the last point.