Dell U3425WE: Specs, Features, Pros & Cons

Two monitors side by side leave a pair of bezels running down the middle of the work. Dell's answer in its UltraSharp line is this curved ultrawide, which gives roughly the same width to one continuous panel and then builds the connections of an office dock into the back of it.

It belongs to the productivity end of Dell's range rather than the gaming end, and everything about it points at a particular kind of desk: a laptop that arrives every morning, often a second computer that stays put, and work that spreads sideways. Video timelines, wide spreadsheets, a code editor beside its documentation, or a call window next to the file being discussed all suit the shape. Picture-by-picture, which shows two machines at once, and built-in keyboard-and-mouse switching are the useful parts, because they replace boxes and cables that would otherwise clutter the desk.

What it gives up is sharpness per inch. The panel is only as tall, in pixels, as an ordinary QHD monitor, so stretching it this wide keeps pixel density at everyday levels: small text is clean, but it is not as crisp as on a high-resolution flat screen of similar height. It also has just one input suited to a console, which matters only on desks that double as a games corner.

The price reflects the docking hardware as much as the panel. Set against a plain ultrawide plus a separate dock and switch box, the sums come out fairly close, and the desk ends up much tidier. Buyers weighing it against gaming ultrawides at similar money are comparing different tools: those spend their budget on speed, this one on the cable at the back.