Immediate buy if it was 4k. Could use G-sync too.

Hilbert Dutch + Floor Jansen + Nightwish? Are you a fan of the wonderful Floor Jansen & the music of Nightwish btw? Another fantastic review involving a lot of work (and as you say monitors not your primary expertise so no doubt more effort is required). No gaming/productivity monitor is going to be 'perfect' for everyone, reading the many monitor threads on guru3d makes that quite clear but I agree that this monitor appears to offer a very good spec for the money, it's a shame if Amazon reviews confirm a poor QC by Samsung. Those who would prefer 4K + NVidia + 144Hz + HDR ++++, it will be literally years before this is affordable/doable for the vast majority of us, even to those of us who have the funds now but have decided (as I have) that I'm not willing to pay £1,500 for a monitor + £1,000 for an NVidia card. My Dell U2711 is now 8 years old, I must have been a 2K gaming pioneer but I didn't realise this at the time.

Hilbert Hagedoorn:

24" too big?? It's because you are 140 cm in length right 😀

I'm 178 cm tall and sit about 60 to 70 cm from the monitor. When I started to use a computer I had a 19'' CRT, then jumped to a 22'' TN, after that a 21.5 IPS and then I jumped to 24'' IPS. So I'm on my 4th monitor in 15 years.

EL1TE:

Well, i kinda agree with him, since he's a cat a 24 is already bigger than him 😛

You guys made me laugh, thank you! And for the review, looks like an awesome monitor!

Octopuss:

Damn, why do all modern monitors have to be curved? Looks like we are doomed to another marketing gimmick 🙁

There are options, just look for them. Also, you have many types of curves. The gentle ones might be actually great even if you don't like the idea. Best is to try it out on a shop.

Keesberenburg:

I like the curve cause te outsite of the monitor have a better angle, it's better for the colours, lesser wasted out colours.

I found out the problems of a big monitor with my 24''. The edges are slightly washed out like you describe. A gentle curve fixes that, specially useful for beastly panels.