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LG Possibly Developing Three New Apple Displays, Including Pro Display XDR With Apple Silicon Chip
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$1499 24" UHD pro display please
It's been like 10 years and they never released a succssor to the 27" thunderbolt display which was super popular in TONS of creative offices
Apple seriously needs to get back in the monitor game. The $6k XDR is nice but doesn't make sense for most of the market.
It's been like 10 years and they never released a succssor to the 27" thunderbolt display which was super popular in TONS of creative offices
Apple seriously needs to get back in the monitor game. The $6k XDR is nice but doesn't make sense for most of the market.
So there's at least an A chip in there, if not M1/M1Max. Tha fascinating part is what could happen with those in there.
Computer-monitor processing i.e. XGrid?
"Graphics chip" in the monitor itself? That can work with the computer, i.e. XGrid?
Computer-monitor processing i.e. XGrid?
"Graphics chip" in the monitor itself? That can work with the computer, i.e. XGrid?
that's what is interesting.
I have the 64 gig max cores m1max. say i buy the 32" pro display with some GPU cores in it. Is there a point if my GPU cores if they are in the display? can they process side jobs or node jobs in Blender 3D etc? or would the internal GPU just do display-related color and hz things?
Exciting and unknown possibilities right now.
While the original report from 9to5Mac mentioned the A13, the report they were working off of said if would be an "Apple SoC" and since the A13 was the latest SoC at the time, that is what 9to5Mac concluded.
So it is possible that instead of an off-the-shelf A series SoC, this could be a custom Apple SoC designed specifically for this display ("D1"?) and handle tasks like calibration, Airplay support, image processing, etc.
A 24" OLED 1440p60 w/ Rec.2100 support & priced right would get my IMMEDIATE attention !
Really hope Apple gets back in the display business.
We have thousands of beautiful Macs plugged into ugly Dell, Samsung, and LG displays. The office looks like a marketing display for these companies, not Apple.
We have thousands of beautiful Macs plugged into ugly Dell, Samsung, and LG displays. The office looks like a marketing display for these companies, not Apple.
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8.9 Billion color correction checks per second. ~ apple marketing
Becomes the display for photographers and graphic designers.
? who knows.
It would not surprise me if Apple comes out with an iMac that they call pro but is less expensive than the old pro just to have a consumer/prosumer model that raises the entry price for a high end iMac closer to Macbook pro levels. Then a year later after introducing the new Mac pro, come out with another imac model that has an even bigger screen and and even bigger starting price. $6,000. And is equipped with all the speed of the mac pro without any of the expandability. Which would technically be a bargain compared to the mac pro which doesn't come with a screen but also starts at $6,000. Seems like Apple is moving to a consumer - prosumer - and professional 3 tiered system. Essentially bumping up the entry level price of what they call Pro.
I don't know how different a screen with an M1 (or whatever variant they use) will be from an iMac? I guess get rid of storage, the wifi/bluetooth controllers, etc. Maybe have the GPU cores help with graphics, while the CPU cores do the basic screen stuff. The latter seems like overkill, though.
Even then, I don't know how much an improvement having the chip in there will have since most Macs by then will already have an M1 (or better) chip in them. If the screen's M1 & the Mac's M1 could work in conjunction, maybe. That or making an M1 Super-Mega-Ultimate variant with a boatload of GPU cores. Even then, would a thunderbolt connection be able to take full advantage? Thunderbolt 3 / 4 is only what, a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection? Considering many video cards now are up to PCIe 4.0 x16, I don't know if an eGPU could ever be fully taken advantage of until Thunderbolt meets at least that. Who knows what'll it be like once PCIe 5 really takes hold.
Even then, I don't know how much an improvement having the chip in there will have since most Macs by then will already have an M1 (or better) chip in them. If the screen's M1 & the Mac's M1 could work in conjunction, maybe. That or making an M1 Super-Mega-Ultimate variant with a boatload of GPU cores. Even then, would a thunderbolt connection be able to take full advantage? Thunderbolt 3 / 4 is only what, a PCIe 3.0 x4 connection? Considering many video cards now are up to PCIe 4.0 x16, I don't know if an eGPU could ever be fully taken advantage of until Thunderbolt meets at least that. Who knows what'll it be like once PCIe 5 really takes hold.
LG wants $4000 for their 32" OLED and $3000 for their 27". ASUS has a 22" OLED, but they also want $4000 for it. So not sure what "priced right" means, but if it is ~$2000... maybe in a couple of years?
Samsung is also going to have a 34" QD-OLED, but I would not be surprised if that one was at least $5000, if not more.
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According to your signature, looks like you should be old enough to remember the System X supercomputer? That was pretty awesome. I'd be curious to see how Apple would design servers (hardware & software) nowadays with Apple Silicon & Swift. Unfortunately, probably not enough margin & volume to do that, though.
It says the specs are the same as the 24" iMac and that price starts at $1299, this should be $999 at most.
So are they not going any larger with the replacement iMac for the Intel 27 inch? that would be disappointing; would have liked to see it go up to 32 inch. Anyway, not in a rush for a cheaper Apple branded display; and we Apples version of cheaper is probably $1,500. I also got a 24 inch Dell that looks almost brand spanking new from work that was heading to ewaste.
I would love the choice between an MBP + external monitor(s) vs. a 27" (or larger) iMac to actually be a tough decision.
The LG ULTRAFINE 5K looks as "plastic" as the $150 Gateway monitor I had in 1990. Screen looks great, but that case....yuk!!
Edit: it's an "Apple branded" display... which means no inputs for multiple machines or non-Mac devices. Now I'm sad.
I was liking the LG UltraFine ones but they were ONLY Thunderbolt which won't work for me because I have many PCs crammed in a small desk space that all share two monitors.
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it could act as an Airplay display just like a built-in Apple TV, or it could be used for the Secure Enclave for Face ID, ISP for the webcam, the gpu could offload the UI from being rendered on the Mac. All kinds of things.
Hopefully gen 2 of these things will have faceID in them, sometime in the next few years. 🤞🤞
Thinking about getting a 49" ultra wide monitor for my incoming 16" MBP, although now I might have to reconsider...
Thinking about getting a 49" ultra wide monitor for my incoming 16" MBP, although now I might have to reconsider...
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LOL, I purchased the LG 27" 5K from Apple this morning. Now I don't know if I should cancel that order.