Sorry but this is the dumbest comment ever!
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Apple Pulls 4K LG UltraFine Displays From Online Apple Store in U.S.
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It wasn't low. I picked a 4K up refurb for $200, that was great. $700? No way. The 5K was even worse, $1300? You can get the exact same displays with a computer for $500 more.
The monitors are overpriced, but they aren't "old". Go try to find another external display that has wide color gamut, high DPI, IPS viewing angles and high brightness. You can't, no matter how much you pay. Even the professional ones from EIZO are missing one attribute, usually resolution. The PC market is all about numbers, so huge sizes, low DPI, poor TN viewing angles, and barely sRGB are what you get with the 4K monitors available.
The 4K is also unique in that it has extra pixels: it's 16:9 like UHD but can fully fit a real DCI 4K image without scaling. The rest of the "4K" monitors aren't even 4K, they're 3.8k.
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Hope in one hand and spit in the other. See which pools up first.
That unicornMac is never going to arrive. Plus, if it did, it'd be an overpriced, limited piece of outdated tech.
Go hackintosh. It's far more reliable.
I reckon this is why Apple pulled the LG display. Shame, its looked good. But Apple has a history of making 'extinct' more that a few year old products.
"...but it is several years old at this point, having first debuted in 2016."
Nice use of language there to make it seem older than it is... 3 years is NOT several years. It is a only few years old...
Nice use of language there to make it seem older than it is... 3 years is NOT several years. It is a only few years old...
It isn't even "several" years. It was announced on October 27, 2016 and didn't ship until 5-6 weeks later. That's not even 2.5 years ago.
What I am looking for is a 34" or better 21:9 monitor to combine the best parts of an 85 Watt charging capable Thunderbolt 3 docking station with an integrated USB Hub for perpherals, an ethernet interface along with excellent display quality and performance. For some reason, only LG offers this right now so there is little incentive for the price to drop to an acceptable level for better quality and reliability than LG has been able to deliver. Waiting
I have the UltraFine 4 and 5K screens. I think they're fantastic. As pretty as an iMac? Of course not---but the screens are the exact same. My 5K sits next to my 5K iMac---they're identical.
I disagree. For CPUs, it was a very impressive upgrade. GPUs, not as much, but it was still a noticeable change from the previous generation
Pretty sure that not even true. I’ve seen people editing 4K video on a MacBook Air. It just took a bit longer to encode.
mheh
I just noticed the logos on my two side-by-sides (now that you mentioned it), and I've been starin' into 'em for two years, now
Regards, splifingate
It was low by Apple standards…
Wait till you see what these new monitors cost with their brand on them!
mheh
I just noticed the logos on my two side-by-sides (now that you mentioned it), and I've been starin' into 'em for two years, now
Regards, splifingate
It’s almost like we can have two totally different opinions and it’s OK
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yes for a kidney, lol
mean while you can buy a pc and upgrade the ram when ever you want, not just when you first buy your mac
apple do this because they probably still soldering component, why can’t the person upgrade later? because the person bought a mac
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computer are for many things but also to do 4k video, since we are here, also for gaming but mr cook doesn’t want mac users to game on macs because it seems that mac are only for high class people and education and gaming is a distraction for students, please mr cook give me a break, adults also use macs and adults also do gaming, mr cook has no excuse, oh wait , macs are using AMD because he doesn’t want macs with nvidia cards, maybe he thinks that macs are not for gaming, install w10 in bootcamp and use an egpu lol
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The 21" 4k has got to be one of the best 21" ever made. Try to find a 21" with 400nits brightness. They all are 250nits. 24" goes up to 300nits. Not that you need this, but nonetheless, it's desirable for some people. Also, there's the USB-C system.
I bought mine for $400. $700 is way over the top.
Some people don't like the retro design. I can see that, but I like it. Not a big deal.
I bought mine for $400. $700 is way over the top.
Some people don't like the retro design. I can see that, but I like it. Not a big deal.
why is dumb? yes many macs can render or encode 4k videos extremely slow, unless you have a imac pro, why you think many users are waiting for a mac pro, also putting 5400 rpm old hard drivers on new computers it doesn’t help their case either
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Just something else they are going to ruin. After they ruined their own stand alone displays. Apple in 2019 is utterly ludicrous.
hi sorry i know you were talking to the other user but i had this kind of conversation before, there is one big point that people seem to miss about resolution and that is the bit rate, i had a friend that told me that he can play 4k videos on his computer, yes 4k is the resolution but he was using the lowest bit rate setting available, i gave him one of my phantom 4 pro 4k that i encoded with the highest bit rate available and his computer choked to death, we even switch to a better player and still the same results, then he said that my file was probably damage , so he came to my house and tested the file that i gave him using my computer and it plays perfectly fine, the answer is simple, my pc has more horse power and it can play a 4k video at the highest bit rate available, the higher the bit rate the better the video is going to look, yes the file size will also be bigger, but i only care about the best quality, many stream services use compression in order to make the file smaller, yes the video still look good but it will not look better than one that has a higher bit rate, also the higher the bit rate the longer it will take to encode, regards
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i think tim is a genius is the winner
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Are you implying that every iMac with a 5K display should also be able to edit 5K video?
Holy smokes! I’ve had a 5K iMac for a couple years and I’ve yet to edit a 5K video.