Once upon a time, I was very knowledgeable when it came to PC Hardware. Now, I am clearly way behind and find it impossible to get caught up, so I'm hoping for some help from you folks...
I am an attorney with a five-monitor setup. Four of the displays go through my aftermarket video card (NVIDIA Quadro P4000) and the last goes through the built-in graphics card on my PC. Recently, despite only having about 20,000 hours on some of my LG OLED 4K monitors, I started to notice that 1-2 of them had lost significant brightness, colors were not bright and vibrant, and the viewing experience was getting worse.
Being that I respond to emails and read scanned documents/pleadings all day, I wanted to remedy the problem. After a few hours of researching, and speaking with AI, the Dell UltraSharp U3225QE was highly recommended. Not an inexpensive monitor by any means, but I decided to take the plunge.
This monitor appears have a built-in USB Hub of some kind, and even has its own network card. Can anyone help me understand the point of plugging the network cable in? In addition, the USB-C port does not appear to be for video out, and therefore, I'm not sure what to use it for. It seems like it is there to power an external laptop or other device. Is this correct? Lastly, can anyone explain how the multiple USB 3.0 ports would work to help in any way on this monitor? There are just no instructions that make this clear to me.
Aside from all of that, I am wondering what some of you think of the purchase in general. It is very bright which makes my viewing experience much better. I'm just stunned at the price, and wondering if I overpaid because of the USB-C port and the "HUB" function of this monitor, which I still do not truly understand.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.