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I'll take higher res. The ultra-wide part was the important part of my wish.
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Apple is Finally Making a Cheaper Display: What We Know
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I'll take higher res. The ultra-wide part was the important part of my wish.
If the prices are like the ones mentioned in the article, I can see quite a few Mac users opting for less expensive 2k and 4k displays. After all, it is a second display.
LG Display worth 300 bones. Apple knows how to stick it to their Fan-customers.
Apple is not going to release a $399 monitor in my opinion. If you’re holding out for that your hopes are going to get crushed. Amazon is flooded with monitors in that price range in that price range. Apple simply could not compete in that market with the profit margins they expect.
It seems obvious that Apple is working on a display that costs less than six or seven grand. It would be all caps really ? newsworthy, if they were working on a display that cost MORE??
The monitors in that price range are literally junk and Apple wouldn’t lower itself.
Apple is finally making a cheaper display...um, we think.
Sorry, I'll believe when I see it.
Sorry, I'll believe when I see it.
Heck, I used a 9" square B&W monitor with my Apple ][+. Good times!
HobeSoundDarryl
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I remember Commodore 64 hooked to a SD TV screen. Seemed wow! wow! wow! back then when me and Moses and a couple of friendly Velociraptors used to write some code.
@mannyvel, I bow to your history. WOW!Punch cards anyone? Punch cards???
The price at $2,500 is probably accurate. Apple will charge high for a product they will sell in limited numbers. General consumers are not going to pay close to that so another niche product.
Exactly that’s the problem. It would just be a rebranded monitor with an apple logo. That would be a huge disappointment. I’m hoping for at least 27” and 5K. Something like the current LG 5K displays but better
How much spare money do you guys have?
If I was going to spend $2500, I would buy a whole iMac, not just a display...
If I was going to spend $2500, I would buy a whole iMac, not just a display...
The idea of an embedded GPU sounds good on paper. I have a XDR and bought a eGPU to take the load off my 13” MBP. I find the eGPU support in Mac OS to be a terrible and buggy experience. Apps have to be re-launched to use the GPU. There’s a long-running bug that prevents a Mac with a GPU to be put in power save mode, or else a full crash. I find it hard to believe they are about to release new displays with embedded GPUs with this level of maturity.
Actually the iMac 24 is $200 more expensive than Macbook Pro 13 with same configuration. Macbook Pro 16 with M1 Pro is $2499 and with M1 Max is $3499.
So I think we can fairly assess the price of the 27 inch iMac. And that is if we assume that there won’t be a M1 model. Which if released could be priced as low as $1,799. But its highly unlikely that Apple would release a entry level iMac with a mini LED display.
if that consumer display really is $2500, then does that mean that the next iMac is gonna be very expensive and not be sold around the lower $2000 range? or perhaps the 27" iMac will have 2 options where the cheaper one is basically a bigger version of the 24" iMac? that would suck.
I think you’re right. I don’t think this is targeted towards general consumers. That market is covered by the 24” iMac. People who don’t want to spend the money for the iMac will get something like the base model Mac mini and buy a cheap $300 monitor. I think this manager is not going to be for the current Mac mini. It’s going to be for the higher end Mac mini that’s coming out.
If this new display cost twice as much as the NEW LG C2 42” computer/gamer centric OLED then I’ll pass.
Waiting to see what Apple has to offer, but this is an area of tech that Apple’s products HAVE to be competitively priced.
And once you go 32” it’s hard to go back. 42 may be a tad big but we’ll see.
Waiting to see what Apple has to offer, but this is an area of tech that Apple’s products HAVE to be competitively priced.
And once you go 32” it’s hard to go back. 42 may be a tad big but we’ll see.
$2500 isn’t a consumer-oriented display. There is absolutely no technical or cost related reason why they couldn’t give us a 27” display in the $1200-$1500 price range with speakers, a camera, usb-c hub, power for MacBooks etc. The entry iMac 27” is $1799 and is often sold for much less.
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I agree. I doubt the prices will be low. I mean you got Apple charging $699.00 just for Mac Pro wheels. Much less display could cost less.
"The Pro Display XDR didn't fare quite as well in sRGB gamut testing, where monitors normally get close to 100 percent coverage"
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Thus, the Apple Pro display is not able to display 100% sRGB.
Are you kidding me?
?? ? The display costs $5000 and cannot display the entire sRGB color space? ? What kind of joke is that? ? And then the display is not compared against really good monitors from Eizo, Nec & Co. but against gaming monitors...
A display for fanboys who care more about design than the display itself.
Hey, buy a nice picture then and hang that on your wall or something else if you want to have somehtin stylish....
Back to the topic:
Oh yes, as usual, you will only be able to connect a maximum of one Mac at a time to Apple Display. If you have other computers, you'll have to manually reconnect the cables (if the monitor works properly on PCs at all).
As usual, there is only a one-year warranty (5 years for Eizo) and a mirror in which you can see yourself.
PCMag Tests Apple's Pro Display XDR Color Accuracy and Brightness, Says It 'Does Exactly What It Sets Out To'
Apple's Pro Display XDR, priced at $4,999 without a stand, is designed for professionals who need a reference monitor. It may seem expensive,...
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Thus, the Apple Pro display is not able to display 100% sRGB.
Are you kidding me?
?? ? The display costs $5000 and cannot display the entire sRGB color space? ? What kind of joke is that? ? And then the display is not compared against really good monitors from Eizo, Nec & Co. but against gaming monitors...
A display for fanboys who care more about design than the display itself.
Hey, buy a nice picture then and hang that on your wall or something else if you want to have somehtin stylish....
Back to the topic:
Oh yes, as usual, you will only be able to connect a maximum of one Mac at a time to Apple Display. If you have other computers, you'll have to manually reconnect the cables (if the monitor works properly on PCs at all).
As usual, there is only a one-year warranty (5 years for Eizo) and a mirror in which you can see yourself.
standalone display would be great, but 2500 for a 27 is OVERpriced, WAY overpriced ...
My first "computer" was monochrome (only black and green) and about 35 miles away since my "computer" was only a terminal, but I did have a light pen at one point to help fill out forms I was making. Imagine users these days sitting down in front of an original Mac Plus...
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For $2500.00. You might as well buy an iMac + Apple Polishing Cloth. Here you go, friend
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you only get 125 cloths for 2500 ... yea, not gonna happen
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$1000 for a 24 inch display is laughable. Apple has totally lost any sense of reality when it comes to their prices.