jonblatho
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Yep. If I were in the market for a 5K display, instant disqualifying factor. I'd rather have the iMac’s giant—but even—bezels any day.
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Apple's Online Store Now Offering New 5K 27-Inch LG UltraFine Display
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waquzy
macrumors 68000
Well I might as well just stare that ridiculously priced stand than this ugly ducking
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Many people will buy the 6K monitor as remember it's a reference monitor, so the ones people buy currently for that cost around 40K, and are not as powerful. They are not aimed towards regular consumers. But yes, there is clearly a market for Apple to make a monitor aimed at consumers. Most of us assumed it was coming later this year or early next year along side the new 16in MacBook Pro, but with today's announcement that means perhaps that monitor from Apple is not as imminent. For people in need of a monitor tough to know whether to settle for this one, or way an unknown amount of time for Apple's eventual one.
Basically everybody on here wants those blingy consumer junk monitors, since this thing looks pretty much the same as all other professional desktop monitors:
justperry
macrumors G5
You're no exception, you probably heard the audience displeasure when Apple announced the price at the WWDC keynote.
ruka.snow
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RubberShoes
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Tried to buy the old B variant last week from B&H and told it was discontinued. Now I know why..
Very happy to see USB-C support for stuff like iPads. Probably means they are not using that ridiculous dual DisplayPort connection over 1 Thunderbolt cable. The old monitor's Thunderbolt signal required at least one DisplayPort stream for 4K 60Hz or two DisplayPort streams for 5K. Apple has also been advertising the iPad Pro as doing 5K - I guess it took forever but this is what they had in mind
Very happy to see USB-C support for stuff like iPads. Probably means they are not using that ridiculous dual DisplayPort connection over 1 Thunderbolt cable. The old monitor's Thunderbolt signal required at least one DisplayPort stream for 4K 60Hz or two DisplayPort streams for 5K. Apple has also been advertising the iPad Pro as doing 5K - I guess it took forever but this is what they had in mind
justperry
macrumors G5
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In fact, that must have been the first time in a WWDC announcement ever that even the die-hard audience (finally) did not react with vacuous cheers and adulation but mumbling. And I hope it's only the beginning of more dissent. Apple's pricing hubris is mindboggling and it shows no signs of abating.
https://mashable.com/video/crowd-reaction-mac-pro-monitor-stand-wwdc-2019/?europe=true
Other than this and the 94W charging bump mentioned earlier, I'm not seeing any difference from the old one. Unless I'm, missing something?
I see they call out the ambient light sensor on this one, and that never worked on the old one, so presumably that is fixed.
otternonsense
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Actually everybody on here wants a tour de force return of an affordable Cinema Display 🙁
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lg-ultrafine-5k-owners-thread.2023452/
There is a long thread here with feedback from owners of the current model. Fair number of issues reported by users there. Mine has worked pretty well, but sometimes I have to plug and unplug from my 13" MBP a couple times for it to start working.
I do have an LG OLED TV that has been flawless, so who knows.
In 2005, the 23 inch Cinema HD was $1,499. That's $1965 today. The 27 inch was $1,000 in 2013, equal to $1100 today. They never were "affordable".
ruka.snow
macrumors 68000
We aren't talking about Apple's screen(which may perhaps be up to the task). This is a LG screen.
otternonsense
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OK, correction, more affordable than the pro XDR display, it's still Apple we're talking about 😉
I either want a bland display with nearly no bezel (similar to HP's) or a good looking display with a bezel (iMac but please a little less bezel).
I hate integrated webcams too! They are useless.
It supports USB-C DisplayPort mode as well as Thunderbolt - so you can plug an iPad Pro into it.
Now, they don't say (or I haven't found it yet) that it supports 5K when connected to an iPad Pro - if it does then that implies that it supports DisplayPort 1.4 (you can't get 5k down a DP 1.2 link) if it doesn't then they're asking to get a slapped risk from the advertising standards authorities from everywhere outside the US.
The old one is the same - I guess its to accommodate the webcam at the top. It could be worse - they could have given it an iPhone Notch.
The good news is that the stand gives far better adjustability than the iMac or the old Apple TB/Cinema displays.
