LCD monitor with USB-C

The USB-C connection is great and how it charges my laptop. One less cord to connect to my laptop.

Part of my responsibility is to research computer equipment. While researching monitors, I discovered this Philips 346B1C. I purchased one for myself and tested it for several months. The monitor has a docking station with adequate ports, RJ45, and USB-C to charge my laptop. Our company is delighted with the product, and the monitor's demand increases daily. My only complaint is the lack of inventory. These are hard to come by, and the wait time can be months for delivery.

I purchase these by the dozen for my workplace. They are reliable and have a lot of functionality for the same price as less capable monitors. Philips is a quality brand I trust.

I do like this monitor - so much in fact, after I bought one for my home office, I bought one (on my own dime) for my work office. The ability to plug in all my USB peripherals without needing a hub and the fact I can leave my power cord in the computer bag is amazing.

I'm very pleased with the quality of this monitor. The colors, brightness, and accuracy are very nice. The price was good as well. The only semi annoying thing is how it goes to sleep after 5mins or so, and I can't seem to figure out how to change it. Most importantly the monitor feels durable. It feels high quality, unlike some other brands that tend to feel cheap. This feels high quality.

First, I opted for the Philips over other brands due to this being the only one on the market (at the time of writing this) with an ethernet port. This was very important for me since my work laptop does not have one, and I wanted a one cable solution (USB C) to dock and have everything just work. Most users might get away with WiFi, but my work and hobbies need low latency and dedicated bandwidth usage not shared on the family WiFi. I first used this monitor at work and found it so useful I bought a second one for him use. Now with all the working from home, I am able to have my personal laptop dock plugged in via Display Port and USB, then I have my work laptop utilize the USB C cable from the monitor. My keyboard, mouse, webcam are all plugged into the monitor, so now I have audio, video, keyboad, mouse, webcam all connected and switchable depending on which one I'm using. This has been a great solution to minimize plugging/unplugging, manually switching components--or worse having duplicates of everything. This has been life changing! No issues with either of my displays as of yet (3 months with work monitor, 1 week with home monitor). The resolution on this is awesome, improves productivity over a standard monitor and better for spreadsheets than dual monitors in my application. The only con on this setup is the speakers are not the best (they can be loud but sound muffled) as you can imagine is pretty standard on new TVs and monitors. I use a 2.1 system plugged into the monitor and a headset on calls so this is not an issue for me.

I got a pair of these for Christmas, the KVM is a lifesaver and easily lets me dock my laptop (XPS15) for when I need productivity. Attached to my desktop these things are good for gaming and great for general usage and productivity.

I have used this monitor for a few years for work MacBook Pro, and my gaming rigg (self built). Although I would like the KVM to auto switch between machines, I'm glad it doesn't completely automatically. If my Mac goes to sleep it will switch over to my MS gaming rigg. Like and dislike that. Took me a couple call when I first got it to understand how to make it work for me specific application, but it has done so flawlessly ever since. My Mac gets powered from the monitor and no need any other cord than the USB-C. I use this monitor for gaming. Guild Wars 2 runs great, everything runs great and looks clear. Blacks are dark and whites are bright. When playing FPS I still don't notice and difference but by specs the 4 ms refresh rate and 100 khz is slow by specs. I would give this a 5 stars and more than likely should, but going to ding it due to the latest specs for a monitor of this size.

I've been using the monitor for a couple of months and I'm pretty happy with it. USB hub with RJ-45 port works perfect for me and resulted in a very clean look. Display and camera is pretty good. Can't say the same about microphone and speakers unfortunately.

I really was drawn to this monitor to have my MacAir M1 plugged in via USB-C, using this monitor as a hub. Works well! Even Lan Cable included in HUB setup (few monitors do this) so far so good. BUT, if you like to add a HDMI device as second source (Raspberry Pi or another PC), that you can NOT(!) use the PIP/or side-by-side picture mode. Turns out, Philips buried this fact in the manual on page 13, there's a little matrix, showing certain combinations. And: USB-C ain't one! Only if you use DisplayPort as the main source, you can add USBC or HDMI as a PIP. If you use USBC as the main source (ahem: Macs!) you use DisplayPort or another USBC as a PIP. Seriously? Why oh why did you do this, Philips. You kind'a "defanged" an otherwise excellent monitor. Last point: the little buttons are horrible difficult to use, bottom right of display, another "Form over function" blunder. The monitor on/off button is right next to the OK button. Guess how often I accidentally switched off the display (it takes 20 seconds to wake up and do it's thing again once turned off) when I intended to press OK. Would I buy it again? I'm struggling, would have to seriously look at competitors...