The monitor sits on a black and white stand that ends in a Y-shaped base. With a 27-inch display running at 2,560 by 1,440 pixels, the AW2721D features a design straight out of the company's more recent playbook, mimicking said unidentified craft with an almost wholly white shell, save for a few bands of customizable LED arrays strewn around the monitor's underside, running the height of the stand, and behind the quintessential Alienware logo in the top right corner. For a minute, you might be forgiven for thinking those might just be a shipment of Alienware monitors falling out of a plane somewhere. If you've been paying attention to the news over the past few years, you might have heard the Pentagon has been detecting all-white, perfectly smooth "Tic Tac-shaped" objects zipping around our skies. The Alienware 27 will be a luxury item for some, but that doesn't prevent it from easily earning an Editors' Choice award as one of the best gaming monitors on shelves (and hopefully on your desk) today.
Whether you are watching a movie or playing a multiplayer title in HDR, the display looks great inside and out, showing almost no compromises apart from its steepish price.
Featuring a sturdy, highly ergonomic stand lined with on-brand LED light strips, the Alienware 27 is a marvel of design and construction quality while also pumping out beautiful onscreen action.
Until now, the holder of that title in the 27-inch 1440p category had been the stellar $649 Razer Raptor 27, but this year the $769.99 Alienware 27 Gaming Monitor (AW2721D) seizes the crown. Once in a while, a gaming monitor comes along that truly does it all.