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Apple's Rumored 27-Inch Mini-LED Display Now Said to Launch in October
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I think the 27" cinema display and 27" Thunderbolt display were sold at the same time for a little while. I am sure I can find more examples, the 90's were a mess for Apple products..
Good catch.
Maybe ther Perfoma's display was sold last the same time as the Apple 13" RGB? I don't remember that far back.
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Indeed.
Apple left a cash cow in the pasture all those years they did not sell a 27" display IMO.
There are multiple credible reports that Apple is working on a new version of the Pro Display XDR with 7K resolution. It will either remain at 32 inches with greater sharpness (254ppi, similar to the new MacBook Pros) or will stay in the ~220ppi and expand to ~36 inches. In addition to 7K, it will have an Apple A-Series SoC to support Spatial Audio and Center Stage like the Apple Studio Display.
Wait for the new Pro Display XDR to launch and then look for closeout sales on the current model.
It’s a certainty that this will be yet another Apple product that the masses won’t be buying at a price point that Apple will be willing to sell it. I just took delivery on a Dell U2723QE 4K hub monitor that supports the USB 3.2 gen 2 10 Gbs data rate and that has a 1G LAN port. Yes, I wish that it had more than its 400 NIT brightness and support for USB4 or TB 4 but it gets enough of the job done at less than half of the price of the just released display.
This is one of the most unprofessional "tech reviews" I have ever read.Here's another perspective on this from macperformanceguide.com, which is devoted to photography on the Mac. Hopefully others aren't having the issues he is:
Apple Studio Display: the Technological Dumpster Fire that Crashes Jus
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I rather have another size than another 27" display. Ideally, I would love Apple to offer this:
27" Studio Display (current model) $1600
32" XDR (current model) $3000
35"+ 7K XDR 2.0 $5000
Drop the prices of the stand to $500 and $300 for the nano texture.
27" Studio Display (current model) $1600
32" XDR (current model) $3000
35"+ 7K XDR 2.0 $5000
Drop the prices of the stand to $500 and $300 for the nano texture.
17 days until WWDC.
Apple. Display all your display cards on the table, then please.
Apple. Display all your display cards on the table, then please.
Yes, it does. There are sources (Gurman?) that keep saying an iMac Pro / 27" iMac is coming. I think it makes more sense that this display is for that than yet another display in their lineup.
I agree. I think this is most likely for a 27" iMac possibly with the "Pro" moniker.
So an iMac with target display mode?
The 27" Thunderbolt Display was discontinued in June, 2016. After that Apple sold 27" LG UltraFine displays.
One has to assume that the glaring limitation of 40 Gbit/s will be removed in a future iteration.
That whole site makes my eyes hurt, from the profusion of typefaces to their watermarks being put on corporate handout photos. And his "tech review" of the Mac Studio was just complaining that he couldn't get one, asking for someone to send him one, then blaming the U.S. gov't and China for their inability to fix his personal supply chain issue. It's quite the journey 😅
Will they release another Pro Display XDR professional spec display that is mini-LED and 120hz? that would rock..
Has Ross Young mentioned the resolution of this display? Most here are assuming it's going to be 218 ppi = 5k, and they might be right. But it's possible they're planning to make it 254 ppi (which is the same ppi as the 14"/16" M-series MacBook Pro displays, and also the same as a 32" 7k XDR would be), which would work out to ~5.8k.
If so, that plus mini-LED (and Pro Motion, if they used high enough compression) could perhaps provide sufficient differentiation from the Studio Display that Apple could have released both at WWDC. That may have been their plan, but once they realized this display wouldn't be ready until October, they went ahead and released the Studio Display as soon as it was ready. I'm guessing, of course.
If so, that plus mini-LED (and Pro Motion, if they used high enough compression) could perhaps provide sufficient differentiation from the Studio Display that Apple could have released both at WWDC. That may have been their plan, but once they realized this display wouldn't be ready until October, they went ahead and released the Studio Display as soon as it was ready. I'm guessing, of course.
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I suspect they aren't selling all that many of them. It's rather strange.
I walked into an Apple store recently to order a MBP, and got chatting with the person serving me, and she asked if I'd looked at various other products, so we did a bit of a tour. When we got to the Studio Displays and I laughed and asked the price again, even her body language and tone of voice was like, yeah, as if anyone would want to buy one of those. They are undercooked and vastly overpriced, and everyone knows it.
These new ones are possibly going to be actually decent, but the price will no doubt be laughable. As you point out, it will be an iMac without the computer and double the price.