BenQ MOBIUZ 31.5" 4K Gaming Monitor | EX321UX

Short version: Not recommended for any device I own (which is a pretty wide mix), but particularly so for Mac users. This is billed as a gaming monitor and it definitely will serve best in that setting, but at the time I purchased, there were references to its color accuracy and use in photo editing. The color accuracy can be there - the battle to do so and then actually get it to maintain those settings? Not remotely worth it. Also note that the firmware is only updatable from a Windows computer. When it's at its best, this is a fine looking monitor with great color and brightness. That's when it's at its best - when what it needs to do is keep it to the simple "display something". Things go astray fast from there. A couple of example issues: This has a built-in USB hub. Great thing on the surface, but when a connected system puts displays to sleep, this monitor goes into a continuous loop of going into power saver (as expected), waking up moments later, hunting for a signal, not finding one, so going into power saver. It will continue to do this until the attached system wakes up. Not only is that hard on the monitor itself, but as part of each cycle, it appears to do a reset that cycles the USB hub. This means every connected device that is USB powered (such as my stream deck, video cam, and a small midi keyboard) are power cycled, so hard on the electronics for those devices too. On any given night, you can figure this to happen about twice a minute for a total of loosely 1000 power cycles per night unless I physically power things down. It also has a wide array of options to control such things as whether HDR is active and some color settings. Unfortunately, many of these options are functionally disabled. I presume some element of that has to do with the sending device, but it disables settings that are fully supported by the host system too. And then there is the final straw for me - no firmware updating except from Windows. Marketing to consoles, but move it to a PC to update it. I'm sure that many that just want a plug and play for a game console will do just fine with this, but the number of hassles I've found with it is definitely not worth it. It is, unfortunately, beyond its return window or that's what I'd do with it. Too bad - I've done very well with other BenQ products over the years.