Purchasing as soon as they become available.
Those complaining about lack of different ports on the new MBP just don't get this part. I can have power and everything else over a single cable. Means when I get home, plugin a single cable and now my monitor, power, RAID, ethernet, keyboard, and more are all connected. Just one cable. Makes things so nice and easy.
That ultra wide isn’t curved is it?
It's completely absurd how big most monitors are today. I'm sorry, but you are a complete knob-head if you use a 32" monitor.
Purchasing as soon as they become available.
Those complaining about lack of different ports on the new MBP just don't get this part. I can have power and everything else over a single cable. Means when I get home, plugin a single cable and now my monitor, power, RAID, ethernet, keyboard, and more are all connected. Just one cable. Makes things so nice and easy.
Great pitch for rationalizing Apple's decision. The problem becomes when one takes that mobile computer on the road and needs to hook into just about anything at any other location that is not home. It's no longer "nice and easy with one cable." Instead, it's rough & complicated with dongles/adapters/etc. But I guess thinking like that makes me one of those people who just "don't get it."
I do grasp the specific benefit you shared. Too bad that's not the only thing that people need to be able to do in terms of connecting a laptop to other hardware. I miss the added utility of common ports built in vs. needing dongles & adapters... even more so when the price of the laptops go up as the utility is jettisoned. Marketing spin doesn't make it any better either.
It's completely absurd how big most monitors are today. I'm sorry, but you are a complete knob-head if you use a 32" monitor.
I actually wanted it to be curved, it just doesn’t look it from the photo.Almost all Ultrawides are curved. I have a 34" Dell Ultrawide myself. As you're always sitting in the sweet spot the curve isn't noticeable, instead it counteracts the perspective you'd get looking down such a long display.
They're awesome to work on, and even better for gaming. I'm very tempted by the 5K HDR one though, it would be a nice upgrade.
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That's an absurd thing to say. Bigger is always better. Why would you think otherwise? And there's absolutely no justification for such unpleasant, offensive language.
I actually wanted it to be curved, it just doesn’t look it from the photo.
That’s because Apple has no TB3 Mac Pro to attach the monitor to, therefore the stores have to use the trash can MP, via a TB2 to TB3 dongle, outputting only a scaled resolution of sub5k (forgot where they set exactly, 4k or worse).I went to the Apple Store to look at the LG 5K monitors when they came out last year. I really was not impressed. The image quality looked worse than a 5K iMac, distortion around the items in the top menu bar, the numbers on clock looked squished.
Could have been a bad setup on that monitor, scaling wrong or something, but I walked away with the impression that I'd rather not have an LG screen.
Hopefully, these solve that issue if it did exist on other screens.
That’s weird... why wouldn’t they put the LG 5K on the 13” MBP and the 4K on the nMP?That’s because Apple has no TB3 Mac Pro to attach the monitor to, therefore the stores have to use the trash can MP, via a TB2 to TB3 dongle, outputting only a scaled resolution of sub5k (forgot where they set exactly, 4k or worse).
Ideally they should use a vanilla TBD for the tcMP, while using a 2017 MBP or iMac for the 5k LG, but in my local Apple Store which isn’t the largest ones out there, the Mac desktop space/table only has 4 spots, 2 for each iMac, 1 for 4k LG + 13” MBP, the remaining spot is therefore forced to show both the 5K LG and the tcMP.
I thought the same, asked a Genius, he probably was halfarsing an answer, but it was something along the lines of “we had to match the priciest to the priciest”.That’s weird... why wouldn’t they put the LG 5K on the 13” MBP and the 4K on the nMP?
Or it shows that someone plugged the wrong monitor into the MBP.I thought the same, asked a Genius, he probably was halfarsing an answer, but it was something along the lines of “we had to match the priciest to the priciest”.
Either way, this shows Apple does/did have a severe lack of focus on Mac desktops, to the point of neglecting in-store presentation/experience.
That’s because Apple has no TB3 Mac Pro to attach the monitor to, therefore the stores have to use the trash can MP, via a TB2 to TB3 dongle, outputting only a scaled resolution of sub5k (forgot where they set exactly, 4k or worse).
Ideally they should use a vanilla TBD for the tcMP, while using a 2017 MBP or iMac for the 5k LG, but in my local Apple Store which isn’t the largest ones out there, the Mac desktop space/table only has 4 spots, 2 for each iMac, 1 for 4k LG + 13” MBP, the remaining spot is therefore forced to show both the 5K LG and the tcMP.
image retention, avoid like plague
Please explain.
LG IPS panels are very widely used, including by Apple. They have no image retention problems.
The current ones act as a hub with 3 TB3 ports on the back. Problem is, I'd prefer 2 TB3 ports and 3-4 standard USB 3.0 type-A ports for older peripherals.Excellent, I've been holding off buying a 4k/5k display until I can also use it as a TB3 hub.
I have dual 5K displays right now from Dell and it works flawlessly. Never experienced a hang or crash when plugging them in or removing them.
How do you connect them to the MBP? As far as I knew the only 5K that have TB3 were the LG ones.
I have a dock but could also use DisplayPort which is the same connection at TB and works the same. Using the dock allows me to run 2 monitors, a RAID, external hard drives, ethernet, and other fun plus power from connecting just one cable to my MBP.