Anyone who has tried pre-release versions of Window 8 can tell you that navigating the OS with your mouse is completely doable – but you’re going to find yourself wanting to touch those
Live Tiles. To that end, Dell took the veil off a new multi-touch monitor aimed squarely at users who are upgrading their desktops to Windows 8 and want the touch experience.
The Dell S2340T is a 23-inch
IPS display at
full HD 1920X1080 resolution. It has an
LED backlight and offers viewing angles of 178 degrees. The monitor has a high contrast ratio of 1000:1, as well as a mega-dynamic 8 million: 1 contrast ratio.
One of the more noteworthy features is the articulating stand, which lets you tilt the screen back and even tilt it flat so you can better reach the screen. And the monitor has several ports so you can connect it to your desktop or notebook with a USB cable and immediately have several peripherals also connected. Ports include
DisplayPort,
HDMI, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, and headphone/mic. The S2340T itself has an integrated camera, as well as a microphone and speakers.
Other features include Image Enhance, which sharpens images and
Dell Display Manager, which has customizable color presets and a PowerNap energy conservation tool. The Dell S2340T multi-touch monitor is already available for $699.99.
Joshua Gulick
Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to
Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote
CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for
Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for
HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.
