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CES 2021: Dell Introduces 40-Inch 5K2K Ultrawide Monitor With Thunderbolt 3 Connectivity for Macs
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I don't know. It's too expensive for what it is. My LG 5K 27" monitor was cheaper and with 5120x2880 has a higher resolution. I personally don't see the point having a much larger monitor with less pixels.
Don’t forget Dell doesn’t support Mac and ignores compatibility issues across their entire line-up
I have the re-released Samsung G9 and I use it for office productivity (video conferencing and document production) and content consumption. I really like the curve in a seated or standing office application. I was using a 55" 4K curved HDTV previously but got sick of the huge up and down head movements. I think the R1000 curve is also much more effective and useful. YMMV as monitor experiences are like elbows, everyone has them and they usually stink.
I would much rather see a 64:9 display. Periphery pixels might not be looked at directly, but at least the would be visible, as opposed to putting them above eyesight.
Actually I don’t mind the “old and squared” look, it’s the plastic built that I find disappointing. Apple case, same price and I buy 2 immediately...
Simply: a restyled 5K Ultrafine display. How hard can it be? Is there any sort of agreed limitation in contract between Apple and LG for this not happening?
LG 27” 5K Ultrafine Display?
Could you share how to get iMac functioning as second display for MBP?
It's no longer a thing, but Target Display Mode used to exist: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
Whenever people say something like that they usually don't mean it; like… if you really needed those two displays you would have the LG 5ks, and be talking about replacing those.
What's your setup today, and how are you being held back in work/play by not being able to get two 5Ks with a prettier frame?
Wow, these monitors are now all over the place in edit room and audio studios....So much more monitor real estate for timelines
Agreed. At these kinds of price points, I might as well buy another 5K iMac and pocket the change......
Dell sells more computers per week than Apple does per year. Nowhere does the press release even mention Mac users, the author of this article extrapolated the TB3 to include tenuous relevance to Macs.
Seriously WTF? Why can't anyone in the entire display industry make a display that even remotely approaches the displays included on every Mac????
In 2018 Apple shipped somewhere around 43 % of what Dell shipped... So unless Dell sales have increased by 2200% in two years, no. That figure by the way, would be 3.6 x the total global shipments of all PC makers for 2018
Lol, no. Dell is praying their high end displays are purchased by Mac users with money. Windows doesn't look any better on this display than it does on a $139 display from Amazon so, Dell knows exactly who they're making this for.
My neck hurts just thinking about the head movements required to use a 48" display.
Agreed - I find it really odd that there hasn't been another 27" 5K monitor released either by LG or another monitor company (let alone Apple, now that they're selling the XDR). The LG 27" super-fine has a pretty dated design (it didn't look great when it came out, let alone by today's standards)...
I've really enjoyed my 27" 4K monitor (I run it at "Looks like 2560 x 1440") as I've been working-from-home for 10 months now during the pandemic. It looks great, so no urgency for me to upgrade. But I know a true 5K 27" monitor (so I can run true pixel-doubled "Looks like 2560 x 1440") would look even smoother + less work on the graphics for my MBP.
I would be all over a modern-update on a 27" 5K monitor.
You are clearly looking at monetary based figures which are relatively meaningless when corporate customers pay around $300 per dell machine, but closer to $1200 on Apple.
Nothing to do with prices or "monetary based figures". Just number of machines.
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 4.3 Percent in 4Q18 and 1.3 Percent for the Year
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018, a 4.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.
www.gartner.com
Dell shipped about 42M PCs/laptops in 2018. Apple shipped about 18M. Neither count includes tablet devices.
Jumping in the fray here - lots of comments sprinkled in this thread about resolution, PPI, and monitor/screen size.
My first thought for you is that LG makes the panel (the 27" 5k - 5120x2880) and they put it in their 27" Ultrafine display and Dell put it in their 27" 5k display. Not enough people bought them so Dell stopped producing their version. I believe, but am not 100% sure, that it is also the same panel that is in the 27" 5k iMac. That's it, those are the only "5k" monitors out there and the reason is that not enough people bought them to justify continued production of the panels and screens. I believe the LG 5k still exists because Apple (somehow) is still incentivizing production of the display. It's really only made for a Mac, not a Windows machine.
My second thought, for the rest of the thread, is that I am the one looking for a 49" 10240x2880 monitor. Essentially two 'real' 27" 5k monitors merged into one panel at 200+ PPI...for less than $6k. I would pay for that but not enough people are talking with their wallets for the manufacturers to create such a thing.
32" displays should be 5K. I already have a 32" 4K display, and it's somewhat pixelated. I expected better.