I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the 27-inch 4K EIZO FlexScan EV2785. It's an expensive, but truly excellent business/office monitor. As much as most of us still fail to see the point and appeal of 4K gaming monitors, the FlexScan EV2785 does a great job of showing us that there's actually a true purpose for 4K monitors as long as we're willing to step outside of the gaming mindset. In an office environment, it will offer fantastic sharpness and, depending on your preferred UI scale level, plenty of screen real estate to use for Premiere, Photoshop, AutoCAD and other professional tools.

However, the FlexScan EV2785 is so much more than just a panel with fantastic sharpness. EIZO goes out of their way to properly calibrate the screen long before it leaves the factory. Thanks to that, the built-in IPS panel displays accurate, vivid, and rich colors without any additional aftermarket calibration. It's a true plug-and-play experience—you can enjoy it in its full glory right after pulling it out of the box, turning it on, and deactivating the Auto EcoView sensor. The Auto EcoView sensor automatically adjusts the brightness level in relation to the amount of ambient light. In my dimly lit office, it kept setting the brightness much lower than I found acceptable, especially for more color-critical tasks, such as photo and video editing, but your mileage may wary.

Even though aesthetics aren't something manufacturers spend much time on when designing their business monitors, it is yet another facet where EIZO did well. The screen bezels are insanely thin, thinner than on many gaming-grade monitors. The touch-sensitive controls are surprisingly responsive and the OSD is well organized, which makes navigating through settings a breeze.

In terms of connectivity, the EIZO FlexScan EV2785 offers two HDMI ports and two DisplayPorts, with one of them taking the physical shape of a USB-C connector. The latter will be extremely useful to anyone with a USB-C laptop. You will not only be able to connect the monitor to a laptop with a single USB-C cable to extend or mirror your desktop, but to even charge the laptop's battery and use the peripherals, connected to a pair the of the monitor's USB 3.0 Type-A ports, all at the same time. It's a shame EIZO didn't give us two more USB 3.0 Type-A ports because that would have meant we could get rid of our docking stations and port replicators. Since there are only two Type-A ports provided, more advanced users (those with more peripherals and/or external storage drives) will still need a separate dedicated dock or port replicator.

The high input lag comes as no surprise—the FlexScan EV2785 has no gaming ambitions. It's a true office workhorse, one you'll buy and start fully utilizing from the moment you plug it in without ever having to bother with an excruciating initial setup, calibration, or anything of the sort. Of course, for such ease of use, you'll have to dig deep into your pockets.