At least! I wouldn't be surprised. There are a lot of professionals who use Macs for work, and they are forced to pay whatever exorbitant price Apple set. The problem is that these machines are no long Pro machines having only 1 kind of port and only 16 GB of RAM.
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Apple Drops Prices of 4K and 5K LG Displays by 25 Percent
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At least! I wouldn't be surprised. There are a lot of professionals who use Macs for work, and they are forced to pay whatever exorbitant price Apple set. The problem is that these machines are no long Pro machines having only 1 kind of port and only 16 GB of RAM.
Hm, reading through this thread has me second guessing my intention. I thought I could get over the plastic housing but now people have me thinking twice.
The 4K Monitor is a poor value seeing as it's a tiny 21.5" panel. You can get the top rated Dell 4K 27" for the same price.
Pathetic all round. Steve Jobs will be spinning in his grave at this travesty. Hundreds of thousands of people on the payroll and they can't design a decent case for this thing. Jonny Ive should be fired along with the rest of the so called top execs. Over 30 years an Apple fan boy...not any more :-(
How much profit was in it at the original price?
What this monitor lacks is backward compatible ports.
Instead it has more USB-c ports.
Why didn't it have an SD slot, gigabit Ethernet, 3 or more USB-A ports?
So even if you buy this, you still need all the dongles to plug in your old stuff...
What this monitor lacks is backward compatible ports.
Instead it has more USB-c ports.
Why didn't it have an SD slot, gigabit Ethernet, 3 or more USB-A ports?
So even if you buy this, you still need all the dongles to plug in your old stuff...
If they had announced a new Mac Pro, this might've gotten me on board. But nope. No new Mac Pro.
They probably learned the absolute wrong lesson from their self-inflicted injuries on the 2013 redesign and have decided no one wants pro machines...
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I don't attribute it to malignant attitudes. They're probably just so disconnected from average people that they have no idea what money means and what professionals actually do.
They probably learned the absolute wrong lesson from their self-inflicted injuries on the 2013 redesign and have decided no one wants pro machines...
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I don't attribute it to malignant attitudes. They're probably just so disconnected from average people that they have no idea what money means and what professionals actually do.
The point is the pixel density. After using a 5K iMac for the last two years my eyes can't go back. I'd rather buy a 21.5" 4K display than a 27" one.
With the Dell comparison, you're also forgetting Thunderbolt 3, seamless software integration (e.g. brightness), and P3 colour gamut.
The amount of complaining over a price drop is unreal to me. I also don't understand why everyone thinks this monitor is so hideous. It's not gorgeous, but it's not the ugliest monitor ever like a lot of people are saying. I'm probably going to pick it up at this price. It's not a bad price for a 5k and really all I need is a USB-A adapter then and maybe an HDMI if I want to watch something on my 50" TV.
It's the ugliest lcd ever sponsored by Apple, that's a fact.
Design is more than visuals. The ports and display panel are part of the design stage...
I agree with this. I like my iPad Pro but it isn't a professional computing tool. The iPhone may ironically turn out to be the product that kills Apple (because of arrogance and bad leadership insisting on focusing the entire company on that one product line ... and a car).
How close do you lean into your computer monitor? It's not a cell phone. I'd rather have a 32" 4k display over a 27" 4k or 5k. I'd even consider the 40" Phillips, but it trades off too much image quality for price at the size.
Thunderbolt 3 is a useless joke, I don't want that on my monitor. Software integration, really? The monitor should just dumbly display what the computer tells it to and hardware buttons/controls are way better than screwing around with driver on the computer. P3 is referring to a colour space, not a colour gamut; you really should try to understand what these terms mean and not just believe that since Apple's marking engine says it's great, it's great.
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It'll still be overpriced for such a crippled machine unless they throw in a $500 gift card for the new Dongle kiosks they'll be opening in all the upscale department stores.
im still happy with my 27" apple cinema display and works great.
Maybe some people use their computers for more things than playing back cheesy videos they shoot of their cats?
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Isn't it kind of weird that Microsoft came out with an Apple-looking $3,000 computer/display (Surface Studio) and Apple came out with a PC-looking display and is discounting it a-la normal-PC-world practice? Not that I have any reason to say it's a bad thing. It's probably a very nice display and definitely a better value than the previous Thunderbolt display.
Go ahead and complain, and buy your value displays, power to ya. These are awesome, simple as that. I own a very nice Dell 4k 24", wonderful display, but i've got a feeling these best the Dells, and are Apple displays in generic housings.
And you show me another 21" 4k with 500nits. 21" monitors invariably max out at 250 nits. This one is twice as bright. I like bright 4k displays
, and although they are asking Apple prices, you get what you pay for.
And you show me another 21" 4k with 500nits. 21" monitors invariably max out at 250 nits. This one is twice as bright. I like bright 4k displays
, and although they are asking Apple prices, you get what you pay for.
Agreed. Nice looking product. Classy commercial (Microsoft marketing has been so horribly tacky; is the Balmer era finally dead and buried?).
The aesthetics are definitely copying -er- taking cues from Apple in various places ... But superseding Apple in the ultimate target and function... if we are to believe this thing can perform, and not burn out prematurely, with those tiny components.
Too damned bad about the operating system.
I think all of the cost for this thing went to the IPS P3 display, the P3 being the key. That's important to me. But yes, the thing is ugly as f***.