Mac-compliant software for Dell monitor?

BTW, Allan, I didn't change the discussion to MBP; Csound1 did. As for the P1913S being an old model, it seems to have been introduced in June, 2012 (http://shop.it.ee/Specid/Monitorid/P2213_P1913_P1913s.pdf; I also found that date somewhere else, but cannot remember where). That's all of 13 months ago. As I said before, I like steam trains (though they often went faster than any modern ones).

I am very grateful for this copious stream of information and advice that I seem to have provoked by my question about software, but I have to say that I actually ordered the P1913S some days ago and it is due to arrive sometime next week.

Sorry to go on some more! Just to say about the screen rotation feature — that's something I have never had and never missed on any monitor I have used in the past, but it seems to me that it would only be particularly useful when examining or editing portrait-format images, and since most applications like Photoshop and PreView allow one to rotate images, one could presumably physically rotate the screen and then rotate the image in the application. That wouldn't work with online images, but really and truly 5:4 is not so extreme (unlike the modern wide-screen format) that one cannot look at portrait-format pictures perfectly well with the screen in landscape position.

That's beautiful, Csound1. Thank you. I ought to stick a copy of it onto my new monitor when it arrives — if it lives up to my expectations — though I hope I shan't see steam coming out of it too soon.

Further to the above, and in case anyone else is looking for a monitor and has thought about the Dell P1913S, mine has just arrived. I have not had time yet fully to evaluate it, but I just plugged it in using the DVI-D cable cable that came with it, used the online menu (accessed by the buttons at the edge of the display) to select the DVI-D input, and it all worked straight away.

In view of the above discussion, it is worth mentioning that the combination of the buttons and the onscreen display makes menu-selection and adjustment of brightness and contrast very user-friendly and easy (unlike what I had expected, since the software on the disk supplied with the monitor does not work on a Mac), and image rotation (if one wants it!) works perfectly well via the Mac's System Prefs. > Display. Whether that is a Mac feature that works with any monitor I do not know because I never tried it with my ancient Samsung monitor, but it certainly works with the Dell.

So far my only criticisms are that the range of viewing angles is not quite as wide as I had expected, though better than the old Samsung's — i.e. the screen goes slightly yellow near its edge if one views it obliquely — and that blacks are not quite as black as they might be — but I haven't fiddled with profiles, contrast and brightness much yet. I suspect that both these limitations are fairly charateristic of relatively cheap monitors; the slightly raised price of this 'professional' model as compared with its standard brother seems to be due to the provision of digital (DVI and DisplayPort) inputs, which are good for the resolution.