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5K monitor question

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Wingsley

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Mar 20, 2014
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I do not know of any specific, up-to-date roster of all 5K monitors on the market, let alone ones that offer Thunderbolt 3. This makes learning about specific products for specific configurations difficult.

I may buy a new Mac-based setup in the coming months. My iMac is aging, and its predecessor was a MacBook Pro that unceremoniously died a few years back. I was thinking that with this new Thunderbolt 3 / eGPU phenomenon being all the rave, I would investigate certain mobile / mobile+desktop configurations.

My first major question is about 5K Thunderbolt 3 monitors. I see that some 4K monitors on the market allow the display to be rotated to Portrait view, which would make it much easier to edit specific pages for word processing and/or desktop publishing tasks. My office is a jack-of-all-trades setup, where I do a variety of different tasks including some video editing, photo library, word pro/DTP, graphics, bookkeeping, Excel, etc. I'd like the flexibility of a monitor that offers both 5K video and the ability to rotate to Portrait.

Is there a Thunderbolt 3-enabled monitor on the market that can do this?
 
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As far as I know there is 1 viable 5k TB3 monitor on the market and it's the LG Ultrafine 5k. Its stand doesn't pivot but you could put it in portrait mode if you buy a 3rd party VESA stand.
 
Would it actually work in Portrait mode if you turned in sideways on a VESA mount?
 
OP:

I really think you'd do better with a 5k iMac.
And not "pivot it" at all.

If you need "portrait mode", get a 27" 4k display that pivots and is known to be able to "switch orientations" with the Mac OS.

Then use it that way.
 
I am looking at an iMac as a possibility. But then I'd be sacrificing portability.

The alternative I'm discussing in this thread is getting a i7 MacBook Pro, an eGPU, and at least one external monitor.

But I'm keeping the idea of an iMac instead in the back of my mind...
 
Wingsley said:
Wow. Never heard of that one. Does it rotate?
Click to expand...

*once*... :p

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