[STEAM][PRESS]BenQ X500i Review: Affordable Excellence

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Now, straight up, let me just say, I might be in love with the BenQ X500i. It's true, I've tested a huge amount of projectors and monitors in my time, but the X500i hits the sweet spot for pretty much everything. Price, performance, image quality, form factor, it ticks all the boxes.

It's perfectly balanced, and if you're looking for one of the

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with 4K out there right now, there's no doubt in my mind that this could well be it. It's close to convincing me that I need to sling my 21:9 ultrawide monitor away for good, it's that impressive.

It's not flawless. It has a few minor issues, but on the whole, for a fairly respectable $1699/£1,499 fee, what you're getting for that investment is seriously epic. Let's take a step back for a moment though. If you're new to the projector scene, I'm guessing your first question is going to be "Well why?", why get a projector to begin with?

It is without a doubt, a luxury item. If you've already picked up the

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, then going for something like a projector isn't warranted. These are halo products, for nerd dens, and evenings with your buds or your family, sitting back, enjoying your beverage of choice, and just crashing out with a bit of casual gaming, or movie entertainment on a 150-inch display. It is, just such an absolutely enjoyable thing to be able to do.

Before you make this your primary display for all things, bear in mind you will still find better specs with dedicated gaming monitors and displays. After all, projection has come a long way, but so too have PC screens, and it's hard to compete with the refresh rates, ****** accuracy, and pixel densities dished out by some of the latest and greatest OLED tech. But, both of these products are designed with very different use cases in mind, and that's ok.

One thing to add, like most things in the PC space, the more you invest, usually, the better the product. But there is a sweet spot, that some (not all) projectors inhabit, and thankfully I can say the X500i sits itself in that gap quite nicely.

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