Could you recommend a 5K mini-LED monitor with 99.7% P3 and 99.5% Adobe RGB coverage, true 10-bit color, HDR, 120 Hz, Thunderbolt 5, and a built-in webcam for around $1,500?
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Apple Adjusts Studio Display XDR Pricing Weeks After Launch
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now can they do the quiet upgrade fro the original display where they just update 60hz to 120hz?
Abazigal
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Why should it?
People here have been screaming about the usefulness and versatility of usb c for years.
Frankly, I don’t see a reason for any laptop to contain any port other than usb c.
And while the manufacturers are at it, can they start including usb c ports in televisions already? I would like to be able to connect my switch directly to it with a single cable without the need for a dedicated dock setup.
I bought mine on 3/5 and it delivered 3/17. I just received an email that they will be crediting the difference.
PCs for example with discrete video cards don’t have usb-c video outputs… the thunderbolt/usb-c outputs on PC motherboards are usually connected only to the integrated graphics, not the discrete GPU. So for gaming, that’s problematic.Why should it?
People here have been screaming about the usefulness and versatility of usb c for years.
Frankly, I don’t see a reason for any laptop to contain any port other than usb c.
And while the manufacturers are at it, can they start including usb c ports in televisions already? I would like to be able to connect my switch directly to it with a single cable without the need for a dedicated dock setup.
Also, Apple calls it a “Studio” display. But in a Studio or even a home office, a user might have more than one computing device. It’s very common. A user might have a Mac for some tasks, and a Windows PC or laptop for other tasks and/or for gaming. Having only 1 input on a monitor will make it difficult and annoying to use with multiple devices. Having multiple video inputs on the other hand makes makes this process much more seamless. Given the cost of the monitor, it’s a shame it has one input, in my opinion.
Nugget
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I think it's unreasonable to be grumpy at Apple for not catering to the PC and gaming market with their displays. If they had extra ports I might find a use for them, but I am comfortable with the reality that Apple have no real reason to spend development time and money trying to address those markets. Even if these displays had an HDMI or DP input, then you'd just be complaining that there's no built-in support for settings or adjusting brightness or any of the other UI affordances and controls that general monitors need to provide in order to work well with every possible input source imaginable.
Not to mention that it gets up to 1,000 nits in SDR and 2,000 in HDR. Good luck finding an OLED that does that.
I don't disagree that they technically owe you nothing. Nor did they owe anyone anything back in 2007, although I understand you deem that a moot point. Certainly the company was in a very different place back then, and that sacrifice was probably more important with a more mass market product for a company that was not yet the behemoth it would become.
But I suppose we can agree to disagree on whether it's smart business to not embitter some subset of customers, even if the rules were laid out explicitly for everyone to see. It sounds like Apple decided it was the smart thing to do, given they have now proactively contacted customers to provide that refund.
I personally think there is a balance between extracting every last dollar you can from a customer on any given transaction vs. how you think about customer lifetime value, which can very much be affected by someone's perception of that company's treatment of its customers.
FYI, per the discussion over here (https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-low-prices-on-expercom.2480979/post-34544199), LG finally released their pricing of their version of the panel the XDR uses. Not quite the same specs, and monitor only, but $1200:
Thanks for the heads-up. Curious to see how it performs. Need to wait for serious reviews and a design that appeals to someone older than 13. Still, the trajectory is encouraging.