Hands-On With the New 4K 23.7-Inch LG UltraFine Display

[smirking]

Everything except the Apple ones look gaudy and distract from the screen. Especially the ugly stands.

I think people are also reacting to how the display looks out of proportion when the neck is extended as it is in the MacRumors potato photo. There's a reason why none of the product shots show the displays when elevated.

Extended

Lowered

Same monitor in the two photos above, but some people have a much more negative reaction to the first one. All of the monitors in question have flattering angles and not so flattering angles. In the end, they're all rectangles mounted to something and there really isn't that much distinguishing one from the other. Mount them on an elegant monitor arm and there's almost no difference in the appearances of the different monitors.

 

[ColdShadow]

That looks like an uglier version of the LG to me. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
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Everything except the Apple ones look gaudy and distract from the screen. Especially the ugly stands.

they look WAY better than this cheap,budget looking LG.
and those Samsungs look awesome.(Samsung design is always top notch unlike LG)

 

[gnasher729]

And so we see again the problem that is afflicting Apple. Where people care more about how something looks than how it functions.

You should judge a monitor by how it looks. When it is turned on. They judge it by how it looks when it's turned off.

 

[davester]

hot pink with a unicorn horn coming out the top.

Hot damn!! If only...

 

[doctor-don]

There are plenty of classic Apple Cinema Displays floating around out there. You can easily get one on eBay. I'm not a fan anymore though, but I am sure glad other people still are because I was able to sell a 30" ACD last year for an amazing price considering how old the monitor was. Those aluminum beasts took up so much room and generated a massive amount of heat. I sweat so much less in my office now that I longer have a 30" hot plate in front of my face all day.
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I read somewhere on here that it's rumored that the rumored 6K display would likely have a built in eGPU, which would add to the cost, but also be a welcome addition because the LG 5K displays are already pretty hard to drive efficiently.

I'm willing to spend quite a bit on a really good display. Better monitor = better productivity for me. I'm willing to pay a premium, but I hestitate after all the struggles I've had with getting all of my programs to push buckets of pixels to my 5K. Capture One Pro actually causes my Vega 20 MBP to overheat and shut down when the 5K monitor is being used. Without the external monitor, the fans only spin up lightly.

My 23" ACD does NOT generate a noticeable amount of heat. Wonder what the problem was with your 30".

 

[macpro2000]

My 23" ACD does NOT generate a noticeable amount of heat. Wonder what the problem was with your 30".

30” ACD are radiators dude. Always have been.

 

[Black Tiger]

they look WAY better than this cheap,budget looking LG.
and those Samsungs look awesome.(Samsung design is always top notch unlike LG)

Have to agree to disagree on that then, to me the Samsung's look ugly AF. Regardless, it is the display quality that matters anyway; the frame is pretty irrelevant. Still would prefer something akin to the old aluminum cinema displays with the retina iMac resolutions in a space grey finish rather than any of these.

 

[nihil0]

That looks like an uglier version of the LG to me. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder?

I guess it is I had Dell Ultrasharp 24 inch way before buying my first iMac and I liked the design (and even then when I first saw it I thought that they ripped-off iMac design). And it looks much better than LG .

 

[Jaymes]

Aesthetics were always important to Steve, definitely a close second behind ease-of-use. How something looks influences, even if subconsciously, both the enjoyment of the product and impulse purchasing through desire. These uninspired displays lack that key ingredient that had always been so important to Steve. While functionally they may very well be fine, they look out of place compared to the rest of the products in Apple's line and makes it difficult to command a premium pricing model.

 

[nottorp]

What really sucks is that 16:10 monitors are dead on the desktop

 

[fathergll]

How does one gets past its ugly design?

Add a touch bar

 

[ColdShadow]

it is the display quality that matters anyway; the frame is pretty irrelevant.

we are talking Apple.
aesthetics and design is extremely important.
equally as important as functionality.

 

[satchmo]

LG has some of the best "bezel-less" displays, yet they chose this ugly duckling to market to Apple people? After spending that much, I don't think I'd ever get used to those fat black bezels.

You must really hate all iMac’s then.
This LG is nothing special, but it’s bezels are still smaller than anything Apple has released in the past decade.

 

[Jacobi]

Can a base Mac Mini (i3, 8GB RAM) run this smoothly?

 

[Ploki]

So for same $$$ you get a downgrade in resolution and a little less real estate?

 

[larrylaffer]

By not noticing the design at all. This is exactly how professional video monitors are made.
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That looks way way better than Sony reference monitors looked 10 years ago.

 

[Ploki]

Frankly i love how it looks - been using it for half a year.

But i just dont get the 23.7” version.
I bought the 21.5” because of the same pixel density as the macbooks.

I wouldnt pay that much for the 23.7”

 

[jungleghost]

No way a new Apple 6k miniLED display to be under 1599$

Holly, you were really dreamers at that time.