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'Apple Studio Display' With 7K Resolution Reportedly in Development
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Who buys this stuff? I bought a monitor on Amazon and the name brand is an unintelligible word. Even then it was too expensive.
Nope. Flat screens are for amateurs. I'm waiting for the Apple VR headset so I can 3D wander through my spreadsheets, 3D employee images, 3D office memos, and 3D policy directives. And I so much want to throw a virtual rotten tomato at my CFO's 3D virtual image. 
Almost all of those other monitors are 4K monitors which is the wrong resolution for larger screens.
The only 5K monitor available from anyone is the LG Ultrafine which has a lot of build and design problems.
If Apple would just make a monitor using the iMac 27” display but priced less than $1500 that would satisfy a lot of the demand for a better monitor at prices that, while not cheap, are not nose bleed range. Of course the rumors are that Apple will give us that monitor but it has to have mini-LED and will cost $2500 just to spite their customers.
I'd be fine with a 24" LCD monitor (a la 24" iMac panel) at $999 and a 27" mini-LED monitor (a la rumored 27" iMac panel) at $1799. I think that would be a great lineup in addition to their Pro / Studio display(s).
It SEEMS simple, but anyone making such a monitor would also sell a good number to PC users, right? Seems like an untapped market that any vendor could conquer quite readily (especially since the panel Apple uses isn’t something they produce, it’s available for others to use). The fact that none of the monitor makers are stepping up makes me wonder, why not?
It's sad to say, but once we hit 1080P, the general public sort of checked out. 4K is what it is, but it was nothing like the SD-to-HD, mass adoption. Trying to get the average person who didn't care about 4K to jump up to 7k is going to quite interesting haha.
That's how I feel about 8K TVs. I'm surprised by the amount of people who still buy DVDs. Imagine watching a 480p DVD on an 8K TV... 🤭
Will definitely be a great display if it launches, but will be priced sky high
Sometimes I don't understand Apple. You'd have to assume Mac mini buyers are using some sort of display solution so surely there's a strong market for selling a decent Apple monitor to match them? Just take the display from the 27" iMac and put in in a nicely designed Apple housing with the new iMac style stand and hey presto, instant sales. Its hardly rocket science...
Yep. Although a lot of studios are filming in Red 6K and working at a target production flow of 5K, so that when downsampling finally to 4K for the digital intermediate, it’s sharp and crisp.
Because macOS is not resolution independent and an 8K display would have to be at least 40" which is a tad large while 36" should be enough for 7K.
For me there are two areas that are suffering heavily in the monitor market that Apple could address:
- Design, and I don't talk strictly about an Apple logo. Monitors in general are boring, low effort design. The XDR is the proof that you can deliver a great panel in a great enclosure. Apple could deliver a mid-end monitor with a MBP/Mac mini matching design
- Pixels density, which for whatever reason is not really a thing even in 2022. More than a decade after the introduction of Retina display on Macs, we are still very limited in choices for a monitor approximatively 220 ppi or higher.
So yeah, a good looking 27 inch monitor in the 1500-2000 range (because I don't believe one second it could be priced 999) with an excellent pixel density and a decent contrast ratio seems like a product that Apple could deliver, I would definitely buy that. As much as I would want a 32 inch 8K HDR miniLED Promotion monitor, I don't have the budget nor the need for that. A good successor to the Ultrafine 5K with an Apple casing and maybe a better contrast ratio is something way more in my league, and would still be a stunning screen
Guess it depends what your use case is. I'm interested in one of these for productivity (or something similar), however I do not need high color accuracy or anything else that you'd pay out the nose for.
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The Thunderbolt Display was the sweet spot. If Apple releases an updated version for $1,000, that would be nice. Of course, $1,000 would sort of be too expensive for a 4K monitor... while also not being enough for a 5K monitor. If there were a few-hundred-dollar difference between the two, I'd pay the extra money for the 5K display.
USB-C has allowed for non-Apple monitors to integrate surprisingly well with Macs. However, with build quality, you have a valid opinion: Apple displays have generally always been built very well. I still own multiple Thunderbolt Displays, and I like how robust they are.
Features are another important consideration. The 2011 Thunderbolt Display came with some nice I/O, including a USB hub and an ethernet jack. It also has integrated speakers and webcam — both of which are on par with the quality of those available on iMacs at the time. Even in 2022, I've yet to hear a consumer display with better integrated speakers. This is the sort of setup that takes a MacBook and practically turns it into an iMac. That may sound like an antiquated concept — but, then again, so does a laptop. We might as well have a 2020s equivalent of the Thunderbolt Display, while demand for that sort of things still exists.
Knowing that any Apple solution would cost a decent amount above what monitor companies are asking, is there currently a high-dpi monitor on the market that sells for $799 - $1000? If so, then maybe $2000 is possible.
It would be quite neat if it contains an M1 chip whose entire capacity goes towards graphics. It would be just like an eGPU... but integrated. 🤯
I am no expert on the display market... but, my feeling is that consumer displays have lately been varying wildly in price — not necessarily always because of resolution/DPI, but due to some of these displays boasting desirable features that sort of reflect the needs of the ever-growing gamer target audience: high refresh rate, ultra-wide and/or curved panel, and fast response time. Prices for basic 1440p displays and 4K displays haven't really budged much, while anything greater than 4K isn't easy to find. (Edit: the above-60Hz displays have actually become significantly cheaper, it seems. I just checked. I'm actually pleasantly surprised.)
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The LG 5K is $1,300, which IMHO is the baseline to compare against. And as I’ve said before, if Apple is going to enter this market then it is likely to want to differentiate versus the competition - which likely means a substantially better product than the LG 5K at a substantially higher price.
What do you mean by “sweet spot”? At $999 in 2011 the Apple Thunderbolt Display was very expensive compared to contemporary 27” QHD screens (several of which cost less than half that amount), cost more than a MacBook Air, and reviews typically complained about it being overpriced. It was priced out of reach of most ordinary buyers, and I suspect a lot of people that became happy Thunderbolt Display owners actually bought them later, second or third hand.
I think we should expect the same to be true for any new Apple displays.
And - respectfully - if you think $1,000 is too much for a 4K display then you might not be the target market for a new Apple display. That segment of the market is already well served by a number of manufacturers. And that I expect will be true for most people.