This is WAY cheaper than other monitors of this quality. By, like 50% or more. I’m sure Sony was caught flat footed.
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Apple's Pro Display XDR With Nano-Texture Can Only Be Cleaned With Special Apple-Provided Cloth
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Does any office actually have cleaners that clean the screens? Or is this a boomer joke that I’m not getting.
Reference displays costing far more from Flanders, Canon, and Sony also do not come with webcams.
It’s a little more like watching a bunch of folks, seeing the first automobile, and exclaiming, “Umm, enjoy your automowatzit, when you run out of gas, I’ll just be waiting for my horse to take a drink and I’m riding again!” or “I’m sorry, on a cold ride, I’d rather have a warm horse under me!” You can find the comments funny while also marveling at the technology (yes, even the stand technology is remarkable
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At some point, it’s almost sounds like a Simpsons sketch.
Is there a remote?
No.
Why not, my TV‘s a helluva lot cheaper and came with a remote.
This isn’t a TV.
Well what’s the use of a screen if it ain’t TV!!
>facepalm<
This is a product that is literally designed for people who require higher color accuracy and precision, the sort of thing a normal matte coating will alter. You are basically saying they should make their product worse for the handful of people who want it to what, let them clean it with a regular cloth? You are entirely missing the point.
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No, but your post shows how out of touch you are. This screen is designed for a specific type of professional, because no one else makes something like it. You want a 4k or 5k display with normal matte coating? Tons of companies make them, and they all work just fine with a Mac. Get one of those if you don't need this.
CLOTH+ for $199/yearI would never use Windex for my computer screen but at least there are plenty of third-party screen cleaners that do a great job.
Sounds like active cooling from the website
”Inlet and exhaust vents work through this pattern to draw in cool air and eject hot air away from the system, limiting the potential for hot air to be reingested.”
Do they specify if the cloth itself has to be cleaned in a special way or can you just rinse it off at a sink? I would expect tap water to contain a small amount of abrasive debris in it.
AH, thanks. I’ve never known a cleaning service that ever cleaned anything on my desk, and certainly not the monitor.
Yeah, I read that in the story above.
”Apple also has specific instructions for washing the polishing cloth, which includes using dish soap and water, rinsing thoroughly, and then letting it air dry for at least 24 hours.”
I'm sure exactly zero percent of people throwing around "hot takes" about having to clean this $5K display are even remotely likely to buy it.
But by all means, more jokes about how the cleaning cloth "probably costs $500" because each and every one of those is hilarious. You can't make this stuff up, people!
But by all means, more jokes about how the cleaning cloth "probably costs $500" because each and every one of those is hilarious. You can't make this stuff up, people!
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Marc Gurman of “Big Hack” Bloomberg? I feel I must be skeptical of his joke...
Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October 2018 — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services. The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companiesinvolved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources. By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete ********. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.
I remember spending $2500 on a Radius PrecisionView/21 back in 1990 or so and the first 21" Apple Cinema Displays were in the $5K ballpark. As a software developer, I'd love for this screen to replace my 27" Thunderbolt Display but it'd have to get down to the $3K ballpark for me to act on it.
Sigh... I just want a new Thunderbolt Display that I can pair to a new iMac... not this overpriced thing. Now that Tim's pipeline has been unblocked with this thing, hopefully he can release some more mainstream computers...
I wish this was absolutely confirmed - as an audio person (who also is interested in video/art work), I definitely don't want to get a monitor that makes any noise.