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Apple Unveils $1,599 27-Inch 5K 'Studio Display' External Monitor
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Sorry but if you are 50cm away from a 4k 27" screen while wearing glasses and text looks blurry, a studio display isn't going to save you. Consider Professor Farnsworth™ brand reading glasses.
You really need to work on your reading comprehension.
I've used a 5K iMac under the same conditions the last five years, and text looks perfectly fine.
4K is simply not enough pixels for a 27" display for some of us, but 5K is.
You cannot see (or at least cannot appreciate) the difference and that's fine. I'm happy for you.
However, there are many of us that can and do.
No you're just lying about what you've used and doubling down on bs. I've already mentioned this elsewhere before but if Apple released a 6k iMac back in 2014, people like you would be claiming today that 5k is blurry and anything less than 6k is unacceptable.
Really? You're accusing me of lying about having used a 5K iMac and an HP Z27 under the same conditions?
Seems reasonable.
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Ok so…. There’s going to be people that buy 2 (or more) of the studio display…. There were demo users in the videos that had 3 connected as well I think.
Each of them have webcams built in.
Do you select which webcam to use? Do both / all turn on at the same time and some funky algorithm combines the two cameras images?
With an even amount of displays the camera is never going to be centred and pointing at you.
Can there be any reason for more than 1 webcam?
Each of them have webcams built in.
Do you select which webcam to use? Do both / all turn on at the same time and some funky algorithm combines the two cameras images?
With an even amount of displays the camera is never going to be centred and pointing at you.
Can there be any reason for more than 1 webcam?
I forgot about input lag, I do not notice it really myself but I thought it could be adjusted in the screen. I remember TV's have a gaming mode (less input lag) I just do not notice it.
I honestly thought this was the new Pro Display, I am confused between all the naming and all the "Leedees" . So LED is different that OLED? Is this supposed to be the cheaper display for regular folks?
Sounds stupid on Apple's part to make their display work only for the Mac market, especially now that there is an Asahi project (Linux working on M1 chips) but I guess they figured out no one will pay these insane prices except their loyal customers. I am only guessing...
Not sure if this has already been asked: if you have both a Mac mini connected and, say, a macbook, how do you switch sources?
You probably have to manually swap cables. The ASD only has one input (the TB4 port).
Ah… no good for anyone that has a work/personal setup then. Can’t be arsed to do that every time!
I assume like the Macbook Pro display, the reference modes can be fine-tuned in terms of white point and luminance.
The Pro Display XDR can be recalibrated and fine-tuned. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210804, but with a $10K+ device. The fact that it won't allow the "reference" modes to be calibrated in hardware is bad. BenQs and NECs allow this for lower prices. Eizo does it better for a higher cost. This monitor is for show, not serious users who need to rely on color accuracy.
To be fair, the iMac 5K was not meant for those who needed to rely on color accuracy, either. Nor was the iiyama and LG monitors that use the same 5K panel. Heck, until the Pro Display XDR, no Apple monitor was meant for that.
Those who use Macs and relied on color accuracy are using monitors from other OEMs who do provide that calibration.
Pretty weird that you would claim to know what someone else can and can’t perceive.
For about 18 months I used dual 27 4K in the office and dual 27 5K at home, same seating distance, and I could tell the difference in sharpness and density.
That said, I agree that 27 4K is typically adequate for most people for a “retina-like” experience.
I’m in the same boat. Sitting here in front of dual LG 5K and wondering. Would it be nice to replace with the new ones? Yes. Is it worth the cost to get an essentially identical screen in a nicer case… I just don’t know.
But I do know that the delivery times for new ones are slipping further away and the fear of missing out is making me nervous.
With those great speakers, I wonder if they’ll show up on AirPlay and in HomeKit. For MacBookPro users that won’t always have their Mac feathered to the display, it would be nice to have those speakers available as a room. Technically, with that A13 in there, they could’ve (or can in the future) made it a full Apple TV.
Not mentioned during the event or the online marketing, so pretty safe bet that the answer is no.
The display is essentially for a single device only now. Can't have 2 inputs you can switch between, means you'd have to unplug your TB cable from your MacBook and plug it into another device (e.g. your Desktop PC) if you want to have a more heterogeneous workplace setup like I have (e.g. gaming PC and MacBook).
Yeah but the thing is the Display only has one TB port, the rest is USB-C with a quarter of the bandwidth. Can you even hook up another Studio Display to one of the USB-C and transmit the full 5k/60fps data to a slow 10GBit/s USB-C? Can the Studio Display even interpret the downstream data properly? I'm faily noob when it comes to daisychaining with anything but DisplayPort, because TB monitors have a premium price tag I'm not willing to pay for low-DPI/low-res monitors that pack them.
That has long been the case. Even the Apple Thunderbolt Display was officially only compatible with Macs (though very few PCs had Thunderbolt 1 or 2 ports, anyway). The LG UltraFine 5K is officially supported only on the Mac (and limited iPad support), but will work on a PC with a full Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port and a GPU/integrated graphics capable of driving a 5K display, albeit without the ability to adjust brightness, etc. without third party software.
I'm guessing that the Apple Studio Display will be the same. We'll find out in 9 days.
A few days ago, people were predicting the new display would cost at least $2000, probably $2500 or more.
So, Apple introduced a display for $1600, and everyone’s all “insane prices, yadda, yadad….”
Since everyone else is complaining about the Studio Display, let me be the first to say I’m disappointed in the lack of a notch.
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You won't be able to daisy chain because the the 5K display uses up most of the bandwidth that Thunderbolt 3 supports.
It is too high for me.
I like to be able to see over the top of the monitor when I am seated to outside. I think the display is too high (at 47.8cm), with too big a gap between the desk and the bottom of the monitor. There is no way to change this. Worse, the supposedly heigh adjustable version is ONLY adjustable upwards in height: it does not allow the display to be lowered AT ALL. So that does not help. Finally, I thought Thunderbolt 4 would be more appropriate for a new product these days than Thunderbolt 3.
I like to be able to see over the top of the monitor when I am seated to outside. I think the display is too high (at 47.8cm), with too big a gap between the desk and the bottom of the monitor. There is no way to change this. Worse, the supposedly heigh adjustable version is ONLY adjustable upwards in height: it does not allow the display to be lowered AT ALL. So that does not help. Finally, I thought Thunderbolt 4 would be more appropriate for a new product these days than Thunderbolt 3.