Well, I spoke about a mini ASD, I meant under 27’, like the iMac 24’ display. Would be nice also to have more Choice of Colors
That`s a different ballgame, agree. However, would that really be sufficiently attractive to a wide enough audience? Can only speak for myself, but I made the transition to 27" more than 10 years ago and went 32" 3-4 years ago if my memory serves me right. The one advantage I can think of with smaller screens in terms of productivity is that one would be more likely to keep a similar workflow to laptop usage, and I always pictured laptop screens as a very limiting factor.
Got my first laptop around 1990 - the first really portable one which could run AutoCad, I don`t do any real graphics work these days, the factor defining the size being read, write and research in 3+ windows, but I still find size a pre as long as it doesn`t have to be portable (have been using Mosaic to organize the workspace).
I play a little bit with Blender, and enjoys messing about with Resolve (purely amateurish) and so on, but whatever I do, I find a decent size monitor highly valuable and appreciated.
A couple of years ago I was equipped with a laptop + a 27 at work, and used the the laptop screen to compensate for less real estate and I seriously disliked it. The laptops I did use for a long time was 14" high spec Thinkpads, but I got the extra laptop keyboard and used them with external monitors whenever I could.
Might be just me and my mindset, but I always worked better on a large monitor. What I did realize with 32" was that I didn`t want 34" where 3 A4 pages will fit rather perfectly, and I also realized that 40" would be over the top for present usage.
So, I don`t understand the pref for 24" and I don`t understand iMac 24, but hey, people are different and have different preferences and work "styles".