Updated: It seems Dell has responded to the leaked product page and officially announced three new 4K monitors: the 24-inch UP2414Q, the 32-inch UP3214Q, and a 28-inch model. The 24-inch UP2414Q is available in the Americas today, priced at $1400. The UP3214Q is available worldwide for $3500. The 28-inch 4K monitor will arrive early in 2014 and will cost less than $1000. The original story is included below. There is still no mention of whether these panels are IGZO or IPS.

Rejoice, under-served desktop PC masses: Dell has leaked its plans to sell a 24-inch 4K desktop monitor, the UP2414Q. There’s no word on pricing (I guarantee it will be at least $1,000), but specs-wise the 24-inch UP2414Q is truly awesome: 3840×2160, 10-bit color, 178-degree viewing angles, 99% of Adobe RGB, 100% sRGB, and factory calibrated color to Delta E less than two.

All of this data stems from Dell’s Belize website, which seems to have jumped the gun and released the UP2414Q product page prematurely. Judging by the design and feature set, we’re definitely talking about a professional, workstation-grade monitor. Judging by the steep price of its nearest cousin, the 32-inch 4K Asus, which is priced at $4,000, we would expect the Dell monitor to be at least $1,000 — and realistically, around $2,000. One important detail that the website omits is whether the UP2414Q is based on an IPS or IGZO panel. Given the ultra-high resolution, we would expect it to be an IGZO panel from either Sharp or LG, but it’s hard to say at this point.

3840×2160 at 24 inches works out to be 183 PPI. Your 1920×1080 monitor is probably around 90 PPI. The sadly discontinued IBM T221, one of the highest-res desktop monitors to ever be produced, was a 22-inch LCD with a PPI of 204. 4K at 24 inches, viewed from around 30 inches (76 cm), is certainly enough to classify as a “Retina” display where you cannot make out individual pixels. With graphics cards not yet able to output games at 3840×2160 at a decent frame rate, it remains to be seen whether 4K on the desktop is actually useful beyond workstation-type use cases (CAD, Photoshop, video editing, etc.)

As beautiful as the UP2414Q will be, the sticking point is obviously the price. Unless Dell can somehow get the price below $1,000, the UP2414Q will probably remain out of reach for most buyers. The most exciting thing, though, is that Dell is getting into the 24-inch 4K monitor business in the first place. Dell purchasing a large number of 24-inch 4K panels from Sharp or IGZO signals that the company is confident in viability of 4K desktop displays. Even if this first monitor is priced too steeply, it’s now just a matter of time before 4K becomes a reality for desktop PC users.

There’s no word on when the UP2414Q will be commercially available, but we would expect either spring or summer 2014.

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