I'm a developer and work primarily with text. Two 4K screens allow me to have multiple windows side by side. Sometimes I turn one vertical. I need as many pixels as I can get, without sacrificing the vertical resolution.
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Apple's Next External Display: Everything We Know About Key Features and Launch Date
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I want a monitor with ProMotion, but can't even afford the Studio Display at these prices
There are many monitors with "promotion" on the market. You don't need to wait for Apple to give you this. There are many alternative.
Heck, there are even 4K mini-LED "promotion" monitors that you can buy right now if you want.
If there was a reasonably priced panoramic display with 8000x3000 pixels sure it would do. Or one big 16:9 but with very high DPI. Otherwise I'll stick to the real estate the two current screens are providing.
XDR is not good for you? Its hiDPI, 32 and its almost the resolution you want. (price is high though I know)
Samsung sells mini-LED 144hz with ultra-low latency if you are looking for that.
The manufacturer of Apple their displays is LG, and LG sells their old LG Ultrafine 5K for $1300. Let's be realistic here expecting Apple to sell a better LG display for only $500 - $600.
Just get a Dell Ultrafine or something like that if you only want to spend $500 - $600. I highly doubt you will notice the lower PPI after working on it for a while.
Apple displays are incredible. Looking forward to seeing all they’ve got in the works.
Agreed. It seems like a contrary opinion around here but I like the ASDs a lot.
What kind of obsolescence do you expect to run into? If Apple ends updates, it will still work. You’re not expecting new features.
True. I question whether there will be issues with such monitors when the OS is no longer supported. Time will tell. I also think the addition of a processor and OS will make such monitors more expensive to repair. And what happens when the monitor dies after Apple stops updating the internal OS and/or the processor is no longer available? Plenty of people, myself included, are still using 10+ year old Thunderbolt or Cinema Displays. I’m not sure the same will be possible for a monitor with an OS. We shall see.
I have the dell 24" 16:10 always vertical for offimatic and webrowing, cant do those things in horizontal never again... maybe in a >32" screen
Seems like a significant number of posters here think a 27-inch monitor is too small. To each his/her own. In my case, I have a 27-inch monitor (NEC PA271W) and for me it's the right size. It's also a bit more than 10 years old (but still going strong) so I am very interested to see what Apple comes up with in the rumored new 27-inch monitor. Bigger would not be better for me given my work space and use cases. My wife has a 27-inch iMac (a few years old). She no longer likes it. Reason: monitor is too big. Wants a smaller monitor. So she's thinking of the 24-inch iMac or possibly the MacBook Air.
It costs nearly what I paid for the Mac Pro tower and I can't possibly justify this kind of money to myself, even though I'm typing this literally surrounded by $1k LEGO sets. I don't need any fancy refresh rates or color reproduction (basically working with green text on black background 90% of the time). Only need the space, high resolution and good design. So, waiting for the refreshed cheap Apple display, might even get the older edition once the price drops. Otherwise my two old Dells are working amazing for what I need.
Then you are in luck. The new 32" 6k Dell is here for you. Lets see the price but I think it will be at least 1/2 of XDR
I wonder how Apple will respond to the recent reveals of the new higher resolution monitros from Dell and Samsung?
At 32” and 6K the new Dell is aimed at the XDR. It probably will not be as bright and but might be priced more reasonably.
Then there is the Samsung ViewFinity S9. A 27” 5K display with a 4K camera.
Neither one has released prices yet, but it looks there is finally some interest in producing monitors with more than 4K resolution.
At 32” and 6K the new Dell is aimed at the XDR. It probably will not be as bright and but might be priced more reasonably.
Then there is the Samsung ViewFinity S9. A 27” 5K display with a 4K camera.
Neither one has released prices yet, but it looks there is finally some interest in producing monitors with more than 4K resolution.
I paid £1700 for my top spec i5 iMac in 2019. That gorgeous 5k panel is without doubt the best screen I’ve used. Can Apple really be saying that the iMac guts only make up ~£300 of its value in comparison to a Studio Display? Either the SD is overpriced or the iMac was a bargain!