Try the LG 34WK95U as an option. Photo and video work on this is awesome with my 2018 MBP. Just a beautiful image. And so much real estate, especially when you use your MBP screen as well for palettes.
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5K LG UltraFine Display Now Unavailable From Apple in the U.S.
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Why is this terrible? Store.apple.com has to be the place to buy someone else’s monitor? I mean sure, it’s be nice to pick up a monitor if I’m shopping for other Apple stuff, but not offering one for a bit is a global sign of strategy-lacking doom for Apple, Inc? Wow. Welcome to MacRumors.com. You’ll fit right in.
But how can Apple compete when they don't offer anything comparable of their own?
It’s not that they might start making them again; in fact they are getting back into the monitor business. They announced it back in April 2017, when they had that Mac Pro roundtable with five or six tech writers. From Phil Schiller:
“A pro display”—not necessarily more than one. There have been strong rumors specifically of a 31.6” 6K3K widescreen monitor, at the same 217 ppi density as the 27” iMacs. So that seems like a pretty sure bet.
I do expect them to also make a 27”, as it would be reasonably low effort given they could use whatever display they intend for the new 27” iMac Pro. I suppose a 21.5” 4K is also possible, but I kind of doubt it. But it could be they’ll only do the 32”. They might release the monitor(s) before the new Mac Pro, or alongside it, who knows?
btw I think a 32” iMac Pro could also be a possibility, given that so many customers who years ago would have needed to buy Mac Pro, now use iMac instead (whether the 5K or the Pro). I’m not sure if there’s enough demand; Apple knows, though
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The panel is the same one in the 27" Late 2015 iMac, and it's actually very decent in terms of resolution, brightness and color. Yes it's three-year-old tech, but even now you won't be able to find another offering with the same specs at the same price.
This is because 5K at 27" makes a lot of sense, especially in MacOS, but it hasn't caught on among Windows users and third-party display manufacturers. The only other 27" 5K display I've seen is the Dell Ultrasharp 5K, which came out around the same time as the original 5K iMac, and was priced comparably to the full iMac for just the monitor if I recall correctly.
Are you certain it's the same panel? It doesn't look quite as good as the panel in a 27" 5K iMac, even when the machines are side by side. Maybe it's variation in manufacturing or similar but the Mac's own display looked just a bit better than the LG.
What are the odds that a 2019 27” iMac with Vega 48 could run a 6K display? What if it’s only a 6K ultra-wide, such that the width resolution increases but not the height resolution? Possible? I can output to two 4K displays, so one 6K seems reasonable. Thunderbolt 3 should be able to handle that kind of bandwidth. Anyone know what version of DisplayPort the 2019 iMac uses? I couldn’t find it. Could they bypass DisplayPort specs and just use the raw capability of the Thunderbolt bus?
I doubt I would buy this anytime soon, but maybe in a couple years if it works and is under $1500. But I bet it will be closer to $2000. I hope they make it look like my 3rd gen iPad Pro display with the thin bezels and rounded corners. It would also be cool if they sold a 5K model for less money.
I doubt I would buy this anytime soon, but maybe in a couple years if it works and is under $1500. But I bet it will be closer to $2000. I hope they make it look like my 3rd gen iPad Pro display with the thin bezels and rounded corners. It would also be cool if they sold a 5K model for less money.
Dell displays work perfectly with MacBook, we use UltraSharp displays with MacBook Pros in my company since the ACD started to get old.
No idea what you wanted to say with the second part of your message.
Does anyone know WHY high resolution displays haven't caught on as much in the Windows world? It's a bit absurd; here we are nearly a decade after the first retina Macs came out, and Windows STILL doesn't look as good on a high-DPI display as MacOS does.
What's the hold up? Don't Windows users WANT to have these gorgeous displays? Why can't MS get things right?
Half the reason I love my 5K iMac is because of that display. You'd think our Windows-using friends would want such goodness too.
They were manufactured and sold by LG exclusively for Apple devices. I assume the panel is still being manufactured, since its still in all the 27" iMacs.
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Those were the LG UltraFine Displays - those two panels with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 inputs that supply 100W power, an integrated USB-C hub, speakers and a camera.
The 34BK95U looks like a really pretty screen, but it doesn't have the camera or USB-C hub.
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$1299 for a freaking monitor
The really scary thing is that was lower than the price Dell charged for their monitor containing that panel
New Cinema Display introduced at WWDC, alongside a Mac Pro Preview ?
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Gaming. Gaming is the area with the highest volume and markup. Its why most higher-end peripherals are bulky LED / black plastic / plexiglass monstrosities. Its why the fast wifi access points look like dead mutant spiders.
That and Nvidia refused to support DisplayPort beyond 1.2, probably because DP added variable refresh rate to the standard (which is what ATI dubbed 'FreeSync', and turned into a quality mark). Nvidia has their own proprietary and deeply licensed/controlled system called G-Sync, that among other things required monitor manufacturers to select from a narrow range of Nvidia-blessed panels and controller boards.
There's a very narrow band outside of gaming for video and photo work on windows, and that's where you start to see lower refresh rate monitors with higher resolution and better color reproduction. And most of them cost about as much as the LG Ultrafine monitors (and several used the same 4k panels - 5k was rare due to thunderbolt being rare on windows)
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First - thunderbolt 3 is going away, replaced by "just" USB 4. Intel donated thunderbolt 3 to the USB implementors forum, presumably under the requirement that thunderbolt 3 backward compatibility was preserved.
Hopefully this (along with not having intel's rules in place, such as not allowing sale as empty eGPU/RAID enclosures) will greatly increase adoption on both the windows PC side and device side.
Second, there are plenty of nice USB-C monitors, and monitors that work with USB-C hubs. Typically what you lose is the integrated camera and microphone on Apple monitors
LG is not competition its their partner, and selling something brings revenue too ... can't see the point degrading customer service!
There were no rumors before the debut of the 2013 Mac Pro. It was a surprise (turns out, not a good one).
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You can buy your monitor not from the Apple retail store, so what's the big deal?
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$1,299 for a 27” 5K monitor suitable for many pro uses. But it’s not just “a monitor”. LG has one of those, it’s a 27” as well and costs less than $150:$1299 for a freaking monitor
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XFGCKL6/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Cheap monitors aren’t Thunderbolt 3, they have poor color accuracy and gamut and they’re 1920x1080 resolution among many other shortcomings (but they’re fine for gaming).
High quality, high resolution monitors targeted at the pro market are expensive. I fully expect Apple’s 32” 6K/3K to be around $2,500.
Dell has a 32” 8K that’s $4,999, though it’s often on sale for 20-25% off, so it’s possible to grab one for the low, low price of $3,750.
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That's typical for high-end. The Cinema HD display used to sell for up to $3K, and it was actually worth it to some, as this is.$1299 for a freaking monitor
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Windows has great legacy support, which comes at a cost. That and I feel like it's built upon a shaky foundation.
Also, I think most users had to have a new marketing term invented for them to even consider the possibility of things being above 1920x1080. Annoying cause it's not even a good aspect ratio.
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Have you tried NEC? You can find high quality NEC EA271Q LED IPS for photo editing which can be calibrated for very nice price. Don't know about USD, but you can find one for around 700 EUR.