Gadgetory

welcome to our most bold and daring unboxing ever this is the Asus designo series mx2 7:9 and what's bold and daring about our unboxing of it is the fact that we're doing it outside pretty much in the rain now I didn't realize that this is just going to open up like this I've never seen an LCD box that's configured quite like this so let's have a look at what they have to say for themselves on the outside of the box first audio is by Bang & Olufsen with their ice power technology so there's two three watt speakers that are actually on the back of the monitor but they use quite a large speaker size in order to get deeper bass it uses a frameless design which is 0.8 millimetres or some 0.8.0 eight inches or something like that for the frame so we're going to show you that after it uses an IPS screen with motion blur reduction technology that makes it suitable for gaming in spite of the fact that it is IPS not TN an LED backlight a 178 degree viewing angle and of course a 5 millisecond response time so let's check this out first of all we've got a Seuss's warranty card which we're not going to worry too much about next we've got an HDMI to DVI cable this is an interesting inclusion and the reason they've done this is if you want to come closer and have a look at the accessories just yeah pick it up and come on over the reason they've done this is that the monitor itself doesn't actually have a DVI input so you'll run this DVI cable to your video card or other device and this HDMI connection into the back of the monitor so that's why they that's why they include that they also include there we go a VGA cable just in case you're still using one of those but please don't this is such a beautiful monitor it's just wasted just utterly wasted on that three-and-a-half millimeter audio connection a power brick so there is no power supply built in to of the monitor itself this is because it is so slim that there wasn't enough room to even integrate this and then a power cable for that next up we've got the ring which is actually modeled after like kind of a Sun dile inspired design so you guys are going to see what I mean as soon as I open it up it looks just like a sundial and then the monitor sits forward on it like this it's got rubberized grips on the bottom so it's not going anywhere once you put it in place and then assembly looks like it's going to be super simple with one screw in the bottom that holds the entire monitor onto the top so let's go ahead and enjoy the uniqueness of this packaging here which has thrown me off a little bit because I was not expecting it to be quite like this you can see the monitor itself is protected by a hard foam so we've got about here check this out we've got a bow probably a little over half an inch of foam protection around the outside of the box however monitor packaging has gotten slimmer and lower profile as monitors have continued to get slimmer and lower profile and this monitor itself is actually not that heavy so I don't expect it to be that much of an issue so this is what asus means by frameless design check this out there's the bezel that's it that's all the screen looks matte from here but I think what we're going to discover is that there is a yeah there's a covering over it so that film protector I'm having a little bit of trouble getting off at least I hope that's a protective film yeah come on ah maybe I'm wrong maybe I just won't do that we'll be back in a moment so we got rained on out there either way it looks like the only removable plastic film is on the back the front actually the reason I couldn't get it off is that it is an anti-glare coating so while Asus has used a single panel for the front of the monitor here in order to make sure that it's very seamless and very smooth they've gone for the route where they don't want a super glossy single panel and they've put an anti-glare coating that is I guess protective as well as reducing the the reflections that makes it not I mean you can see that you can't see a clear reflection of my hand through the monitor so we're going to have to fire this up and see how it works I'm pretty sited to check that out in terms of the i/o because the monitor again is so thin this is so this is the same reason we ended up with a design that has the power brick external at the back you're going to see that there isn't really much room to hide the inputs and outputs so on the back we find HDMI one HDMI 2 and VGA the reason they've gone with dual HDMI I think so this is just my guess is that that way you can easily hook up I like a computer and a game console and switch between them at your convenience VGA is just there for legacy there is your line in as well as headphones out if you don't want to use the integrated speakers and DC volume in and a Kensington lock the back is a gloss finish in contrast to the front which is that matte finish personally I'd love to see less gloss and more matte but if they're going to put gloss somewhere I'm glad that it's on the back because when you look at the side of the monitor you actually can see again it's matte so every part that you're going to be looking at is going to be matte and so it bothers me a lot less that way let's do a cell phone size comparison so this is the HTC one so you can see the monitor is extremely slim and only bulges out a little bit towards the middle at the back where the i/o is and other than that maintains its felt profile now ok it should be noted guys that the actual picture doesn't go quite to the edge so there's about a pinky's width of space here where there isn't going to be an actual image but will maybe show you that in more detail once we've got it fired up so the installation procedure I'll show you guys a sous recommends putting it down on a table I came up with the with the cardboard idea myself because I'm not comfortable putting something like this directly down on the table because the double-edged sword of having no bezel is that you you have no bezel if you lay it down on something you're basically laying it down almost flat on the screen although this bottom part here does protrude out a little bit so it wouldn't be it wouldn't be quite just flat on the screen so there you go that's what it looks like and we'll we'll fire it up in a moment and give you guys our impressions all the on-screen display controls are here along the bottom they are tile button so you can actually feel what you're pressing so that gives you control of your brightness your input your menu as well as your splendid options so that's a Seuss's feature that allows you to pick different different picture profiles for it and then last but not least it does have quick fit which is a feature that we haven't seen on anything other than pro art up till now which puts gridlines on the screen so you can easily size things up just by looking at them