My LG 5k ultra fine is on its last leg. Serious image retention problems. I've been waiting and hoping for a while for a realistic replacement from apple. This is it. Ordered.
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Apple Unveils $1,599 27-Inch 5K 'Studio Display' External Monitor
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I personally would've been okay with a mini-LED and HDR monitor without ProMotion. ProMotion is the least important of the MBP's display features in my experience.
Isn't 5K@120hz possible with DSC? In which case all m1 macs would support it. A simpler solution would be for apple to not use 5K.
5K is so that you can edit 4K video at 100% size (no scaling). The extra resolution is for the UI of the editing environment.
I don't care how close I sit, having less blur on text from visible antialiasing is desirable. Antialiasing makes text look aesthetically more pleasing with low resolution, but it IS a type of edge blurring, and I have enough reason to squint as is. I've hated non-retina displays since my very first iPhone with Retina display. I cannot go back, but I've been forced to stick with older stuff because I'm poor. At age 46, my eyes are starting to be less accommodating to small text, and Apple seems to be run by people without the slightest diversity of eye condition (yes, I have "computer glasses" for near work, and no, contact lenses aren't at all convenient when your near vision is starting to fail).
That said, Apple don't size the UI/layout/text on a retina screen in a sensible way. My GF's retina MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is fine most of the time, but a lot of UI setup uses stupidly small text and leaves huge empty spaces on the screen that could've been taken up with larger and more text.
See how they cleverly raised the prices yet again?
Am I the only one to have noticed that there seem to be TWO FANS in this display, while watching their video?
I'm interested, sort of... but there are legit complaints here. This is the display they should have released for the 2013 Mac Pro AGES AGO! Instead... nothing; for many years.
Aside from some of the other complaints mentioned here, I am wondering when these things will crash. It's got a SOC in it. That means it's running an embedded OS. To do ... what? That's a LOT of complexity. That was my concern when they put them in MacBooks for stuff like the Touch Bar. Added complexity is always a negative for reliability.
I'm interested, sort of... but there are legit complaints here. This is the display they should have released for the 2013 Mac Pro AGES AGO! Instead... nothing; for many years.
Aside from some of the other complaints mentioned here, I am wondering when these things will crash. It's got a SOC in it. That means it's running an embedded OS. To do ... what? That's a LOT of complexity. That was my concern when they put them in MacBooks for stuff like the Touch Bar. Added complexity is always a negative for reliability.
I just re-watched the video and I am not sure those are fans. Honestly, it should not need them as the panel does not get anywhere near hot enough to need anything but passive cooling.
This is not a monitor intended to legitimately edit 4k video on. It is an edge-lit monitor that only reaches 600-nits.
EDIT: To add to that, I would imagine most who are editing video are using more than a single monitor.
As an owner of a 2020 iMac I’m happy that I got the last of the displays that came with a free computer.
People with the LG UltraFine 5K should upgrade to get rid of that hideous forehead bezel alone. If that's not enough, it isn't made out of black plastic with an LG logo below your dock, so that's a big upgrade.
They sure marketed it to us as if they want at least home/small video editor studios/people to buy it.
Monitors drift. I calibrate my NEC every month. Why they don't allow it is beyond me. I would have bought it if it allowed for the modes to be calibrated without a $10k colorimeter like on the XDR.
It’s intended for the Mac and latest iPads but if the LG 5K displays are any indication it might be compatible at least on a limited basis with PCs with Thunderbolt ports.
Yes Apple does take more care to calibrate their displays then, say, LG does. And you do have the option to adjust the white point and gamma via Display Calibrator Assistant. And if you want to get really serious, you could purchase an external calibration tool like the Spyder X or similar to assist.
I’m 45 and switch back and forth between iOS, macOS and Windows all day long. Windows itself handles higher resolution displays OK but Windows apps are by far the most hit or miss.
They discontinued the 27” iMac today. This plus the Mac Studio are basically the new iMac Pro.
It's a decent incentive, but it's not enough of one to go through the trouble of selling a monitor I already own and putting in $800 just to get the same screen in a prettier housing.
I mean, knowing me, I might do it anyway… but that doesn't mean it's worth the time and money. LG 5K owners should sit tight until there's a "retina(ish)" 120Hz option.
I found a LOT of bad and inconsistent design in Windows environments over my decades of using them. That's something I was glad to leave behind (for the most part) when I moved all my productivity to Macs. Gaming is my only reason to use Windows (I hate it, but I hate consoles more).
I've yet to actually see a Windows system with high-PPI. I don't know anyone who has such a setup, so I really can't say how its being handled... But decades of hating Windows has left me with low expectations. I was really disappointed with Apple's handling of it when I helped my GF set up her new MacBook Pro. It didn't look cheap, but it did look badly planned, which seemed really weird to me since Apple has been the single strongest driver of high-PPI.
I can’t believe there isn’t any kind of second input..
It’s a really hard sell just because of that.
It’s a really hard sell just because of that.
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