Apple's Rumored 27-Inch Display With ProMotion No Longer Planned 'For Now'

[UMHurricanes34]

Told you guys almost a year ago that Ross Young was off-base with this rumor. I dunno why MR gives him any credibility.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/pairing-promotion-mac-with-studio-display.2350026/?post=31230651#post-31230651

Is there a possible world where the onboard A chip in the display enables what seems previously impossible? I remember way back when the first rumors of what ended up being the ASD had mentions of an integrated GPU to help drive the display itself.

Would that get around the bandwidth limitations of current and past TB technology or would it still have the same constraints?

 

[cocoua]

5K@120hz maxes out Thunderbolt 4, it is impossible.

well, that is a fact!
and Display port 2.0 is not supported in M series (yet...)
so I guess no 5K Promotion until Thunderbolt 5

 

[CWallace]

Is there a possible world where the onboard A chip in the display enables what seems previously impossible? I remember way back when the first rumors of what ended up being the ASD had mentions of an integrated GPU to help drive the display itself.

Would that get around the bandwidth limitations of current and past TB technology or would it still have the same constraints?

I suppose it could be possible for the A13 to act as a "frame buffer" and render the image sent to it by the Mac's GPU on the display. So the Mac's GPU would still be doing all the work, but it would then just send the display information to the ASD's A13 which would then draw the screen.

 

[BeatCrazy]

Is there a possible world where the onboard A chip in the display enables what seems previously impossible? I remember way back when the first rumors of what ended up being the ASD had mentions of an integrated GPU to help drive the display itself.

Would that get around the bandwidth limitations of current and past TB technology or would it still have the same constraints?

Apple does have a history of proprietary interfaces and display technology to get around traditional limitations. Although they are bumping up real industry standards that they've adopted (Thunderbolt 4).

 

[pacalis]

You may or may not be aware of OSX scaling and how it works with 4K vs 5K screens. If you are aware, then you should know 4K ≠ 5K. If you arent aware, google it up.

There are many *excellent* 4K screens, but how OSX appears on them is different. Some (many) peeps may never notice, but others, like myself, who currently use and have been using 5K 27" iMacs since 2014 (I have a 2020 and a 2014) can see the diff. I have a 27" 4K Ultrasharp next to my iMac, its not as crisp.

First, this isn't relevant to who is making the 4k screens.

That said, I have an older 27" iMac so I don't know about the 4K issue. However, if there is a 4K scaling issue and Apple can't fix it for less than $1600, I think they better get back to innovating.

 

[cocoua]

Apple is trying to make a 35% margin on everything, and the display market is just too competitive to allow that.

So Tim Cook would rather not make a thing that customers really want, than sell a few billion dollars of the thing and dilute average margins. Instead, he'll sell a little bit of a thing with high unit margins and claim success. This is the how I understand this stupid m13 monitor and the AR/VR use-case-less device.

He's jumped the shark on the financialization of Apple and they need to bring in another product leader who is focused on the customer.

But this is the way, for Apple since always.

Apple is already "risking money" (well, they aren't as the price looks to be fair enough) making the Studio display and the proof is none wants to make 5K screens as there isn't enough demands to make profit, but Apple is being forced to release something competitive to satiate the Apple ecosystem. Of course the Studio Display stands out you want or not in it's niche, if you sum up all the features, there isn't a competitive cheaper monitor, as there isn't any monitor with the same features.

If you find one please link it here, I want it so bad.