The bottom of the stand platform even features a toggle-ready rotational disc, so you can rotate when you want to-not by rote.

This panoply of potential adjustments allows for artists and photographers to angle the display to their desires: to view its contents while sitting or standing (or possibly in some sort of recumbent position) to rotate the screen to suit the aspect ratio of a photo and to raise/lower the screen to match the height of an additional monitor for side-by-side comparisons of content. Thus, the PB278Q raises and lowers its panel height by 4.72 inches, rotates to portrait at maximum height, and tilts for the standard amount (down 5°, up 20°). This means that professionals engaging in high-end photo editing, graphic design, or any job where color accuracy and flexibility of the display panel are desired are the target audience. The PB278Q is billed as and equipped to be a professional graphics monitor. The color and shape of these monitors aren’t nearly as interesting (or as important) as their stand flexibility, however.

The PB278Q’s small stand belies its ability to hold the hefty 27-inch display panel in place, but the vertical column that serves as the branch between the two is actually very sturdy. The Asus PB278Q features a very similar design to the PA246Q: a charcoal-black stand and display bezel designed as a pair of symmetric rectangles. Like the PA246Q, the PB278Q doesn’t quite live up to its implied abilities. It’s actually brighter than the PA series, and its color gamut showed some shortcomings that should be barred from the realm of professional graphics monitors. The most we can say following our full course of testing is that we’re a little baffled by this monitor’s general performance.

Asus pb278q monitor stand