When comparing Lenovo Y27f vs ASUS PB278Q, the Slant community recommends ASUS PB278Q for most people. In the question“What are the best monitors?” ASUS PB278Q is ranked 58th while Lenovo Y27f is ranked 170th. The most important reason people chose ASUS PB278Q is:
Headphone jack and microphone port available.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Works well in a dark room
This monitor performs the best in a dark environment where it's high native contrast ratio can push blacks to pretty intense levels. The monitor delivers deep and inky blacks as well as some vivid colors.
Pro Audio I/O
Headphone jack and microphone port available.
Pro QuickFit Virtual Scale
PB278Q has the ASUS exclusive QuickFit Virtual Scale that allows for previewing documents as they would appear when printed.
Pro Sharp, color rich screen
ASUS PB278Q is among the first non-Samsung monitors to use PLS. PLS (plane-to-line) is a Samsung-developed update on IPS. It has a 5ms (grey-to-grey) response time, 16.7 million colors, 1000:1 contrast ratio and is LED-backlit.
Pro DVI, DisplayPort, VGA, HDMI connections
DVI is dual-link with HDCP.
Pro Lightweight
ASUS PB278Q weighs about 8kg. Because of this it is easier to find VESA mounts.
Cons
Con Expensive
There are multiple other monitors out there that offer approximately the same feature set as the Y27f while costing substantially less.
Con No USB ports
There are no USB ports.
Con Poor stand
Although the footstand is wide it's rather flimsy.