Available for purchase since late September 2020, the Acer KB272HL Hbi is a 27-inch FHD monitor with a VA panel, AMD FreeSync support, 75 Hz refresh, and 1 ms response time. With a list price of US$159.99, it is now available with a 25% discount on Amazon, so those interested can get it for US$119.99.
Sharing 1,435 user reviews and 35 answered questions with its sibling which sports an IPS panel, the 27-inch Acer KB272HL Hbi monitor is a popular choice on Amazon when it comes to affordable general purpose monitors. Although marketed as a home office computer monitor, it features AMD FreeSync support and a 1 ms VRB response time alongside 75 Hz refresh, so it could be an interesting choice for at least some non-competitive gaming scenarios as well. With a list price of US$159.99, it is now down to US$119.99 thanks to a 25% discount. Amazon is also offering a 24% discount for the KB272 Bbi model mentioned earlier, so that one can be acquired for US$129.99 (US$169.99 list price) by those willing to pay US$10 more for an IPS panel.
The 27-inch Acer KB272HL Hbi has a zero-frame design, one HDMI and one VGA port (only the VGA cable is included in the retail package), and features the Acer VisionCare set of technologies that includes blue light filtering, flicker reduction, low dimming, and reflection reduction. The typical brightness value specified by Acer is 300 nits. This FHD monitor is wall-mountable and, when used without a VESA mount, it only provides tilt adjustment (-5 to 20 degrees).
No less than 76% of the more than 1,400 Amazon customers who rated the KB272HL Hbi and KB272 Bbi so far considered these monitors are perfection translated into pieces of technology, and 16% rated them as 4/5 products. The breakdown by feature only focuses on three attributes, namely brightness (4.3), picture quality (4.2), and gaming performance (3.6).
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