add a USB A hub & Ethernet port like thunderbolt display I will get it too. I am still using Thunderbolt Display.
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Cheaper 27-Inch 'Studio Display' Reportedly Coming at Tomorrow's Apple Event
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Some of us made the mistake of allowing our spouses to run the checking account.
That's why there's ashtray money....
Is it? Are they going to go two full calendar years without a new lower end Mac?
exactly, also many will say "well buy two of 27" I reply, no thank you! have dual 27 monitors is awful, a pain.
And yet, five years later, it’s still the only true 5K monitor on the market (not counting those ultra wide monitors that are 5K pixels wide but have pathetic vertical resolutions, so they don’t work as retina screens, only as a replacement for two low-res monitors side-by-side).
Negligible by design with the TB4 capabilities using a Pro Display XDR with a M1 Max Macbook
That’s cheap relative to other monitors for productivity; The LG 5K is around that much today.
It will hopefully have the same VESA system as the Pro Display XDR + optimal stand to be green.
I feel it might be two years between the M1 laptops and the M2 replacement, just because these two years have been about transitioning the entire line-up over to Apple silicon...
But I could see a yearly refresh to Mn-series SoC-powered Macs, with the Mn Pro/Max on an 18 month cycle, and maybe even the quad SoC Mac Pro on a two year cycle...?
Yeah, this monitor like LG’s 5K monitor would be better calibrated and likely at much better PPI than your $400 monitor
For productivity and ergonomics, it’s extremely easy to justify over a $1000. If you want a monitor for normal consumption use cases like browsing the Web, there‘a plenty of monitors by so many other than Apple to accommodate you at far cheaper prices
Seeing the fair amount of people that still use the original thunderbolt display, this upgrade may easily accomodate a decade of computing ... lest we move to fully AR workflows but this may seldom happen for most power users.
No, most of the *average* tech consumers aren’t buying it. The Pro Display XDR is still among the top 32” displays ever with its 218 PPI and 1000 sustained nits.
Even displays with better MiniLed density and refresh rates like the PA32UCG (which I have in addition to a Pro Display XDR) doesn’t match its picture quality.
A 5K 27” isn’t for everyone either. It’s primarily for productive computer users that aligns with M1 Pro and M1 Max users that aren’t for everyone either.
The M1 MacBook Air is still overpowered for its users. There is no hurry to update it.
As a programmer I'd rather buy 2 of them and run one of them in portrait. Wide doesn't help programmers.
Because 27" is exactly the right size for 5K. For 32", you need 6K. There is already a display for that.
this is true and I find it odd some are missing it. If it's a 27 inch display from Apple, it will be 5K. Period.
I've run an M1 Mini and M1 Air on the XDR, both with 8GB RAM, and had zero issues.
I am using my XDR now with a 16 inch base model m1 Pro (16 GB RAM).
Again, zero issues.
The A12 chip for smart tv and Universal Control will add a couple hundred to the LG dumb monitor, but will make it much more appealing.
Does anyone else make a monitor like that under 5k?
I have a MBP 16", XDR and 27" Thunderbolt. I would love to swap the Thunderbolt for a new Retina 5K 27" that could do portrait.
I find it hard to believe that the price of the display needs to go up to $5K just to accommodate those features. If that's true, then a 27" iMac with mini-LED/Pro Motion is going to have to cost over $6K. Is the difference between the 16" MBP and a 27" display really a few thousand?
When the M1 Pro/Max MBP was first rumored to have MiniLED and ProMotion, there were some assumptions it would start at $4K or even $5K, but instead the starting price was much the same as previous MBPs.