It has FALD with 576 zones, which people mean when they say mini-LED, although the LEDs on the XDR maybe aren't that mini. However, it's much less than the 2500 zones on the MacBook Pro and the pre-OLED iPad Pro.
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32" 6K ProArt Display From ASUS Launching in Late August
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Nothing beats an Eizo for color accuracy. Can this monitor even be calibrated? I don't have time to read all the docs right now.
I’ve been waiting for this one.
I said it multiple times here, yes the Apple displays have better IQ, but I need the monitor to work with one MBP and a Mac Studio sharing the same keyboard & mouse. The Apple displays are designed to be used with just one device. They lack multiple inputs/KVM.
I said it multiple times here, yes the Apple displays have better IQ, but I need the monitor to work with one MBP and a Mac Studio sharing the same keyboard & mouse. The Apple displays are designed to be used with just one device. They lack multiple inputs/KVM.
That was one of my main considerations when monitor shopping earlier this year. The KVM setup on my ProArt monitor works great.
I disagree. miniLED is a completely different house number and there is too much wishy-washy talk here. There are numerous other displays that use FALD with different numbers of independent zones, but that is no reason to simply put them in the area of a miniLED backlight.
If this were the case, then (if this is Apple's intention) the release of a new Pro Display XDR version with real miniLED backlighting would inevitably lead to explanation problems and it would be Apple who would clearly point out that the first Pro Display XDR generation does not have a miniLED. So let's stick to the truth!
Asked the other way around: Which monitor would not undergo color calibration?
Here it is 8K, but what works in 8K also works in 6K.
But what do high Hz values necessarily have to do with gaming? I can understand anyone who would like to work at 120/240Hz. I would like that too, but I'm realistic and a good monitor that offers these features (6K/8K & 120/240Hz & glossy coating & on 32/40") will certainly want to be paid for handsomely. If I were a manufacturer of such monitors, I wouldn't release them for less than $3,500.
6144 x 3456 is the same as my Dell UltraSharp U3224KBA, so it's probably shared with that not the Apple.
"Mini-LED" is always a backlight for an LCD (IPS) panel, even in the MacBook Pro.
I only know of one Mini-LED backlight in any ≥ Retina 5K IPS panel. Amazingly enough, it's also by ASUS -- in their announced ProArt 8K -- like the Pro Display XDR, it is 32" but it has 4,032 zones (as opposed to 576 zones in the Pro Display XDR).
This is rumored to cost around $8K, so...
This is a little out-of-date, but it explains the basic idea:
LCD Dimming in HDR Displays Explained - VESA Certified DisplayHDR™
LCDs don’t emit light on their own and must instead have a backlight that shines through the LCD material to display an image. Today’s LCD-based displays use a number of LEDs for the backlighting. To achieve a greater contrast ratio than a standard dynamic range display, the LEDs in the...
displayhdr.org
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But all the usual suspects that holler about 120/240 Hz refresh rates will find this display vastly superior to anything Apple has. You can take that to the bank.
120hz at 6k is more bandwidth than most machines handle for a single display right now, so makes sense to keep it at 60…
I do wish it had local dimming though
Yeah, after I got a 32" display, LG Ultra Fine 4K, I realized that it was a tad too large. If I were buying again I would probably get a 27" display, probably the Ultra Fine 5K.
We've had 5K displays with 60Hz for 11 years. Yes, I'm expecting more in 2025 frankly. The display market has been a joke for a decade.
I have mostly Dell monitors and a BenQ SW271. Don’t really care about uneven bezels…but that’s just me.
It wouldn't really be a problem if it was only about bandwidth, because back then (I've had my first 5K monitor from Dell for 10 years now), the manufacturers simply came up with the idea of installing 2x cable connections from the graphics card to the monitor. This would make it possible to offer 6k with 240Hz in no time at all.
Lack of market is what I suspect. PC users don't know the difference between 1080p and 6k, so they're not likely to buy expensive monitors. PC gamers don't want to burn up their 1000W graphics cards driving pixels, they only want fps. Those of us doing creative work (graphics, coding) who also want the display we're looking at to be as crisp as it should be 15 years after the iPhone achieved Retina resolution, are a fraction of the size of the PC market.
Yes -- the Kuycon G32P is an LG Display second-generation "Nano IPS Black" panel with an improved ATW polarizer. Your 2023 Dell has an LG Display first-generation "IPS Black" panel. It will be interesting to see if Dell stays in the game and updates, or if they discontinue like they did with their 5K when LG came out with the UltraFine in 2016.
I haven't seen anyone do a teardown of the ASUS ProArt 5K, which almost certainly uses the same panel source as this ProArt 6K. Chances are it's either BOE or (most likely) AUO. It is not LG Display or Samsung Display.
It will be interesting to see now what Apple does with their updated Studio Display. IMO, Apple has to not only meet the spec of the ASUS and other comparable monitors from DELL and LG that are about to be released, but has to match their price also. I am sorry to say that if Apple doesn't release a cheaper, similarly spec'd updated Studio Display this year, they are going to fall very much behind the competition.
Modern digital cameras have far more resolution than their film counterparts. CRT TVs were designed very well to fool you into thinking they were high res but their resolution was actually very poor. Sure, both film and CRTs didn't pixelate when enlarged, but they got grainy and blurry. Never mind 4k or 6k, I'd take a 1080p IPS TV over a standard definition CRT any day!
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