Apple Now Selling LG's UltraFine 5K Display, Extends $974 Sale Price Until March 31

[AppleSmack]

Anyone look at these up close and can tell me if the extra cost is worth the cost in screen quality over a Dell 4K? ($500) The Dell 4K are super sharp for me and the coding I do mostly (clean text).

I don't care about ports. I do not do Photography or Photoshop so color accuracy is not super important. I don't play games so latency not that big of a deal.

thx

Are you looking at the Dell 28 Ultra HD 4K Monitor - S2817Q? That's on sale in the UK for £437, and I was tempted… except it's a TN display panel. It's fine if you're not concerned by colour accuracy or response rate. However that TN panel will give you narrower viewing angles and colour/brightness shifts if you're not looking dead on straight, compared to the IPS panel in more expensive monitors.

 

[TigerWoodsIV]

Oh man, you just made me miss my Mac Pro tower. I was sad the day I let it go in favor of a MBP.

I don't regret the decision though. I like having more space and it's really nice to be able to grab my whole system and go if I don't want to be holed up in my office 24/7.

I ordered one of the 5K monitors. It's ugly, but I'll get over it. As long as the screen is as nice as the 5K iMac, I won't care.

Exactly. Sucks to go from a better looking piece of hardware to an uglier one, but it's not THAT bad and you're buying it for a 5k display. Based on the specs, it should look incredible, so I'll get over the look really quickly.

 

[melendezest]

Can't do that anymore. Steve's Apple really couldn't either, and thus why they canned the 30" at $3K and the others at $1.5K, and then $1K. The monitors looked aesthetically nice on the outside, but they were nothing special as high performance color-accurate monitors went and were not competitive for that market. NEC has that locked up for professional use with their SpectraView products. Eizo, too.

Like it or not large corporations live by margins. At one time I worked as a systems engineer in a high speed signal processing group at a large semiconductor company. If a product I pitched couldn't get close to 80% GPM with loads of customers, there would be no support for getting my project off the ground.

Of course that's different than consumer electronics. But every company has a margin number and sales targets they need to hit.

Well, if HP and Dell can, why not Apple?

Regardless, I guess I'll just have to dream of better days.

 

[MistrSynistr]

there is literally zero design thought into these. They look like big, cheap hunks of dell plastic.

Is this real life? lol.

 

[citysnaps]

Well, if HP and Dell can, why not Apple?

Regardless, I guess I'll just have to dream of better days.

I suppose that's why they aesthetically look like generic displays.

 

[Appleaker]

Good luck with that. I will be enjoying my 5K LG display, while you're waiting for a Unicorn Apple Display in perpetuity.



You must be new around here. There will be ALWAYS something to complain about.

Who said I was waiting?
If they release one I will buy it but I'm not waiting. I already have a good display setup, and these LG displays are really good without the eGPU. But that display is naturally more interesting. I wouldn't rule it out entirely since Apple themselves haven't and have working prototypes.

 

[metabob]

Ordered two, estimated delivery Jan 11 – Jan 24 (Finland).

I'm just going to have to live with the design. The tbMBP does have a fat upper lip, too, so maybe they'll match

Looking forward to rocking two 5K displays, and the ability to detach and hit a coffee shop with just one cable. Or two, I guess you cannot daisy chain these 5K displays but have to connect both directly.

Last summer, I moved my heavy computation from my trashcan to a Linux server with 64G RAM, a couple of Samsung 950 PRO, and two GTX980 Ti cards. When I receive the displays, my desktop will be powered by the tbMBP and I'll retire the trashcan.

Now all I need for my desktop is a Magic Keyboard with a Touch Bar + Touch ID.

 

[citysnaps]

Ordered two, estimated delivery Jan 11 – Jan 24 (Finland).

I'm just going to have to live with the design. The tbMBP does have a fat upper lip, too, so maybe they'll match

Looking forward to rocking two 5K displays, and the ability to detach and hit a coffee shop with just one cable. Or two, I guess you cannot daisy chain these 5K displays but have to connect both directly.

Last summer, I moved my heavy computation from my trashcan to a Linux server with 64G RAM, a couple of Samsung 950 PRO, and two GTX980 Ti cards. When I receive the displays, my desktop will be powered by the tbMBP and I'll retire the trashcan.

Now all I need for my desktop is a Magic Keyboard with a Touch Bar + Touch ID.

That'll be a nice set up!

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

Still waiting to find out if the screen is ridiculously glossy like recent apple screens, or is it nice and matte like my 30" Apple Cinema Display?

Also still waiting to find out if (and how) I can connect it to my MacPro (late 2013). Apple is advertising that the MacPro can drive 2 x 5K displays, but it's not at all clear how this will happen given the MacPro is Thunderbolt 2 and the display is 3.

 

[sik08amg]

Looks like we will see the mac lineup update at or near the end of March.

 

[pearvsapple]

Overpriced edgelit LCD.

 

[2IS]

More like LG UltraThick. Tim Cook, you should be ashamed of yourself.

You didn't think this comment through did you?

It's bad enough Apple routinely sacrifices functionality and/or battery life for thinness in products that actually have a benefit to being thin, because they are intended to be portable. Here you are asking for a product to be thinner which would provide you with literally zero benefit and could potentially come with added cost and fewer ports.

 

[smirking]

Also still waiting to find out if (and how) I can connect it to my MacPro (late 2013). Apple is advertising that the MacPro can drive 2 x 5K displays, but it's not at all clear how this will happen given the MacPro is Thunderbolt 2 and the display is 3.

It doesn't appear that you can use the LG 5K Ultrafine on a Mac Pro:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587

The two 5K monitor options are listed as a Dell UP2715K and an HP Z27q.

OMG, I just accidentally ended my sentence with a semicolon. Too much coding.

 

[cult hero]

This. I don't understand. LG has plenty of monitors that are aesthetically pleasing but the LG/Apple monitor looks utilitarian/pedestrian. Apple had to provide their desired specs AND approve the design. Why did the final product end up looking like something you'd see in a bulk purchase used in cube farm call center? I'd love to know the rational behind giving that design an approving thumbs up.

I don't understand either. I have an LG ultrawide Thunderbolt Display and it's nice and the design is also much more "Apple." (Although LG isn't adverse to adjustable stands, something Apple thinks is for chumps, lol.)

The lack of camera is actually really annoying though and the other huge annoyance: volume works like HDMI, so my media keys do nothing. These are both rectified on the 5K (and, well, it's 5K).

Now that the sale is extended, I'm gonna wait for the reviews/check them out in person. I want one because despite the gripes it's got all the actual features I want (5K, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C charging, adjustable stand, camera, and audio that works with media keys).

 

[Paul Huang]

The price will only drop after the initial 'low price' period ends.

 

[metabob]

That'll be a nice set up!

I hope so. I'll also have gigabit ethernet connected through the USB-C on one of the displays, so no more wireless hiccups when I'm docked.

I wonder how it will work with a USB drive, connected through one of the displays. I've read reports where macOS complains about a drive being disconnected when the display goes into power save, which will be annoying. I understand why that happens, wish something could be done about it, but afraid it's not quite so easy to fix. I don't actually have a drive I plan to use like this right now, but when I run out of the 2TB on this laptop I'll need to do something about it. Connecting a drive through my display would seem like a natural thing to do.

 

[MrX8503]

(5K, Thunderbolt 3, USB-C charging, adjustable stand, camera, and audio that works with media keys).

That's what I care about. Things that matter in a display. I don't care about a stationary object being thin.

 

[metabob]

The price will only drop after the initial 'low price' period ends.

The price will not drop. However, there will be new products that supplant these displays in H2 2017.

Do you want to wait until H2/17?

 

[canny]

I just don't understand what the HELL is going on at Apple nowadays.

They just keep killing products as if they're broke.

This setup still looks better than ANYTHING that came before, or since, IMHO:

"They just keep killing products as if they're broke."

I've noticed this too. Apple are acting very strange. This is some Lehman Shock level stuff. There's sometimes hidden in the finances.

 

[Wayfarer]

This. I don't understand. LG has plenty of monitors that are aesthetically pleasing but the LG/Apple monitor looks utilitarian/pedestrian. Apple had to provide their desired specs AND approve the design. Why did the final product end up looking like something you'd see in a bulk purchase used in cube farm call center? I'd love to know the rational behind giving that design an approving thumbs up.

Steve never would have allowed that. Seriously.

 

[WRChris]

I can't take my eyes off its fivehead.

That's all I can see haha wth is up with that
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I am still bitter about not getting my Apple 5k Retina display. Apple are doomed until they release it. Long overdue.

Yep Apple is doomed because they didn't make a 5k display. All they need to do, apparently, is make one and all bad things with everything else go away.
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Steve never would have allowed that. Seriously.

Steve never allowed anything ugly? Is that what you are claiming?

 

[smirking]

The price will only drop after the initial 'low price' period ends.

Have you looked up the pricing on equivalent monitors? $974 is probably as low as we're going to see this until 5K monitors become more common.

 

[Rafterman]

For me personally, no ethernet is a deal breaker. An adapter on he monitor itself might work, but who knows.

 

[craig1410]

For me personally, no ethernet is a deal breaker. An adapter on he monitor itself might work, but who knows.

Why wouldn't it work? Of course it will. At least this gives people options on how they configure their fast USB-C peripherals. Personally I wouldn't waste a USB-C connector on an ethernet port when it could be attached to a disk array or something else which can make use of the speed.

 

[Zirel]

Do the math. Both are nominally 220dpi UltraFines: 218 dpi for the 5K; 219 for the 4K.

Exactly. Both have the same DPI, but you need 5K to be 27" and still be "fine".

For me personally, no ethernet is a deal breaker. An adapter on he monitor itself might work, but who knows.

No, it's not "who knows", of course it works, why won't it? DUH!
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True. But at least to my eye. The 4K on Dell's 27" is Super crisp and sharp. guess it would be even sharper on a 5k but prob. not worth the price diff for me. already estactic about Dell 4K 27 rez

Working space at 2x is no good, everything is too big.