Acer launches ultra-wide, super-thin, and USB-C monitors

If 2015 was the year that we first started to see laptops and phones with the new USB-C port, 2016 will be the year where we see a flood of peripherals to support them. Acer is wasting no time here at CES 2016, where it’s announced its first USB-C monitor — the press release says it’s the world’s first, but Lenovo beat the Taiwanese company to the punch yesterday.

The H7 series comes in 25-inch and 27-inch models, both with IPS panels at 2560 x 1440 resolution that support 100 percent of the sRGB gamut. The monitors have conventional HDMI and DisplayPort inputs, but if you use USB-C you’ll be able to charge your laptop and output to the monitor with a single cable.

The H7’s thin-bezeled design is pretty gaudy from the shots we’ve seen,...

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