Dell S230L, S2240L, S27407, S2240M, S230M User Manual

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Dell S series monitors

S2740L 27”, S2440L 24”, S2340L/M 23”

and S2240L/M 21.5” Monitors with LED

Charmaine Yeo

Displays outbound marketing

RTS date
Worldwide: 20th Sept 2012

Dell S series

monitors with LED

What are they?

• Dell’s range of consumer monitors sporting a beautiful new look:

- S2240L/M and S2340L/M monitors are virtually borderless

- S2740L and S2440L monitors have a clean, flush edge-to-edge glass, and are almost frameless

• S2740L is Dell’s first 27” consumer monitor

• The S2440L replaces the ST2420L; the S2340L replaces the ST2320L; S2240L replaces the ST2220L

• The suffixes L and M indicate the ports found on each monitor model. The 27” and 24” monitors only come with

VGA and HDMI (L suffix); while the 23” and 21.5” monitors have both models with L and M suffixes.

- L: VGA + HDMI

- M: VGA + DVI

What makes them different?

• Dell S series monitors redefine elegance and performance in a virtually borderless/ frameless design.

• These consumer series monitors come with advanced panel technologies with ultra-wide viewing angles

• These monitors come with Image Enhance feature designed to improve the visual quality of your onscreen

monitors

Target audience

• Gen Y

• Affluent professionals

• Customers buying XPS desktops or notebooks

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S series value proposition

The Dell S series maximizes your media entertainment experience with aesthetics and

performance. Seamless and intuitive to use, it helps you be efficient and productive, all in a
stylish design.

S series messaging

• Single sentence description

Experience visual screen brilliance on this amazingly beautiful, virtually borderless Dell

S2340L/M 23” monitor (OR S2240L/M 21.5” monitor).

Experience visual screen brilliance on this amazingly beautiful, virtually frameless Dell

S2740L 27” monitor (OR 2440L 24” monitor).

• Short description

Get both beauty and performance on this amazingly beautiful, virtually borderless Dell

S2340L/ S2240 monitor OR virtually frameless Dell S2740/ 2440 monitor.

Visually brilliant, the S series monitors can enhance your multimedia experience with their

full HD resolution, high color gamut and mega dynamic contrast ratio of 8 million:1 (typical)
– offering you vivid image clarity and colors so rich, they simply pop off the screen!

The fast screen response times on the S series monitors also help minimize motion blur and

their 178°/ 178° (typical) ultra-wide viewing angles simply make watching movies and
playing games an amazing experience.

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Key

messaging

What they are
Benefits

Seamless
viewing
experience and

elegant

craftsmanship

• Virtually borderless with technically­brilliant glossy panel design (S2340L/M
& S2240L/M)

• Fine craftsmanship (S2740L & S2440L)

-edge-to-edge glass with near
frameless design on a glossy screen

• Design that redefines elegance

• Redefines your viewing experience with a virtually borderless design, providing

you with the ultimate big picture and sense of infinity by eliminating the space
between the panel and bezel.

• Provides you with a seamless viewing experience with their flushed edge-to­edge glass -- a clean finish that boasts of fine craftsmanship on a glossy screen.

• From monitor panel, to the design of the riser, right up to the Dell chrome badge,
the Dell S series redefines elegance.

• Thin monitors with great looks exude a modern and contemporary appeal - all in
a stylish design.

Remarkable
screen
performance

• Ultra-wide viewing angle of 178°/178°
(typical)

• Superb clarity, color accuracy and
consistency

• Image Enhance capability

• Dell Display Manager – Auto mode

• Full HD 1920 x 1080 (max) resolution

with 16:9 aspect ratio

• Mega dynamic contrast ratio at

8million:1 (typical)

• Wide color gamut* (typical)

- S27@ 84%, S24@ 86%, S23 & S22 @ 82%

*Color gamut (typical) is based on CIE1976
(84%/89%/82%/82%) and CIE1931 (72%) test
standards.

• An ultra-wide viewing angle facilitates collaborative viewing, and can improve
your work productivity

• In-plane switching and Vertical alignment panel technologies offer superb on­screen clarity and color accuracy and consistency across a wide viewing angle.

• Image Enhance feature enhances your picture quality by sharpening the images,
improving the color hues, and boosting the color contrast.

• The new Dell Display Manager comes with an Auto mode option that allows you
to set your preferred optimal preset mode to your active applications (e.g. Movie,

Multimedia, Game, Text, Warm, Cool, Custom Color)

• Get sharp, vivid, cinematic-quality images with full high-definition resolution that
supports a 16:9 widescreen format.

•Experience amazing color details such as deep blacks and bright whites while

viewing photos and videos.

• Enjoy brilliant color performance with the S series’ ability to produce a wide

range of colors.

Dell S series monitors with LED

Redefining elegance and performance

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Key
messaging

What they are
Benefits

Great usability
and comfort

• Tilt (for all models)

• Cable management

• HDMI & VGA ports (S2740L has

additional USB port)

• Maximizes your viewing comfort by allowing you to adjust to your preferred
angle

• A neater and clutter-free desktop

• VGA connector facilitates easy connection to most PCs.

• HDMI port gives you uncompromised high quality video and audio performance

Energy efficient

• Made of environmentally responsible
materials

- Arsenic-free glass and mercury-free

LED panel

• Meet latest environmental standards

-ENERGY STAR

®

- EPEAT Silver

• Power management software:

PowerNap

• These less hazardous materials help make the monitors easy to recycle, and
lower your power consumption

• Meet strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and US Department of
Energy, helping you reduce your energy bills and improve home comfort. Have

environmentally preferable product design and management.

• PowerNap software helps to dim the monitor to its minimum brightness level or
puts it into sleep mode when not in use, helping you be energy efficient

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