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'Apple Studio Display' With 7K Resolution Reportedly in Development
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Apple likes to be “different”. They do 5k when everyone else is doing 4k. Now they will do 7k instead of 6 or 8.
Apple arrogance at its finest. There's a complete lack of consumer 220ppi displays on the market for an optimal macOS experience, and instead of finally providing them, Apple just doubles down on the ridiculous high-end instead.
Sometimes I can't even with this company.
Sometimes I can't even with this company.
I think there is no way that there’ll be a 27-30“ for less than $1499 and even that is my optimistic view. I would love to see a $999 Thunderbolt Display successor but modern Apple will never do that. Maybe there’s a 24“ display for $999-$1199, but I’m already accepting the fact that I’ll have to pay at least $1499 for a 27-30“. But I fear that it will be more likely $1799-$2499… I mean there is no competition for Apple in that space. They just have to take a 5K panel, sprinkle some MiniLED and HDR on it and they will have by far the best display for semi professionals on the market. They know that and they’ll charge for that accordingly
well, except, that a lot of high-end cameras already do offer 8k and the industry is moving towards that, while the consumption will be limited for some time, the creation of is starting ...
and until broadcaster start with 8k, well, we are years away from that ...
A 7K 34” display would be nice indeed (and with DisplayPort 2.0 it would be possible bandwidth-wise). Hopefully with an inbuilt KVM and preferably with a matte surface.
It will probably not be cheap, though.
It will probably not be cheap, though.
if it were 9k, I'd get it. 7k seems more than odd
Maybe inexpensive consumer 220ppi displays aren’t possible? I mean, if they were, wouldn’t companies that have a large focus on monitors be making them? Then again, I suppose if the Windows UI can’t handle 220ppi displays, that could be why we’re not seeing them as well.
Might be basically a 34 inch ultra-wide screen (normally at 3440x1440), but with 220 dpi.
We are still so far away from 4K though. Yes, some streaming services have it and there's DVDs. But no live 4K content. even for the occasional broadcast in 4K, like the Super Bowl on Fox a few years ago, that was upscaled.
Windows does not have too many problems here (some old applications might look a bit blurry, but I haven’t seen that in years). Up until recently, a 7 (or 8)K resolution required two DisplayPort cables, though, to run at 60Hz.
And you are probably right about large high dpi displays in general. The online 8k display I am aware of is a Dell that costs >3k.
Agreed.
32" 8K panels have been out for years and running it in HiDPI mode would be 4K Retina.
I can only presume this 7K panel is meant as a direct replacement for the Pro Display XDR and is aimed at the same video editing crowd who would use it to show 4K content plus all their timelines and menus (offering more space for these than the current 6K PDXDR).
I could buy one.... but then I'd have to live in the box that came with it.
It’s a totally different era now.
The cinema displays were quite cutting edge at the time, and the huge markup was far more understandable
but isn't that world moving to 8k? I understand that content is still limited, but if Apple wants to appeal to those folks ...
oh well, given these new rumors today, I suspect we hear something about that on Tuesday (a la last minute rumors about the notch on the MBPs)...
On the other hand, the Bugatti looks so much different from a Civic that everyone can tell they should be priced differently. To most people, a monitor looks like a monitor. So maybe climb off your little high horse for just a minute. Because most of the complaints really boils down to a frustration, not that Apple is building extraordinary monitors for a small professional niche, but that it's not building monitors for its very large non-professional but equally devoted users — who are quite well aware of the fact that they don't need a 6k or 7k or 8k monitor.
I think the rumor is mixed up. I think it is a 8K display that cost 7K. So it will be labeled the 7K display.
Apple has never and will never make a cheap monitor. There are a million other options and there's no money to be made in a commodity market like low-mid level monitors. Look how people complained about the old Studio Displays.
A Dell-priced monitor with the Apple logo slapped on it isn't going to happen. There's no reason Apple would even bother. There's simply not enough of a market to invest in it.
My guess how this all shakes out? The Pro Display XDR will come down in price, and this will be called the Max Display XDR coming in around the same price as the current Pro.