Many people agreed with my post. You're the first to disagree. Looks like you're alone.I think we can all at least agree that we are sick of people saying what Steve would have done.
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People haver very short memories or didn't know to begin with that Apple has always obsoleted one technology after another. I love having four USB-C port. It's a great very versatile port and dongles are a short lived thing. I replaced my back up drive with a USB-C drive already and once I get the monitor more will go. People are acting like a few cheap dongles are the end of the world...why you identify Ive with dongles I don't know...USB-C is a technology not a design decision.
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How many people do you think want a 45" monitor? That's what the 3rd party market is for. I don't care what this looks like. It looks fine to me. I've been using 3rd party monitors for years. I haven't had a TB monitor since they never moved beyond USB 2.
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Yes that's the price for 5K. A precisely doubled version of 2560X1440. It would be nice to have full speed ports but I would rather have 5k and 5GB ports are sufficient.
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I worked at Motorola at the time. Motorola introduced the ROKR and Jobs was at the ceremony. He hated the device though.
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Also many Apple devices have had LG screens.
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LG's UltraFine 5K Display Is a Worthy Companion to the New MacBook Pro, Even Without Apple's Looks
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We could vote if this is intentional or unintentional, that Apple forgets to tell what would happen if you connect 2 (two) TB cables from any tb2 mac to this screen.
You can use any tb2 mac with dell or hp 5k monitor with full rez. Just wondering have LG somehow managed to break the standard?
Or Apple just trying to increase sails with not updating the display drivers to handle this monitor with 2 cables?
Still, if someone could just try it in real world with real cables?
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Does it need dp1.3 to connect?
I'm more impressed by the way it looks. It looks like a monitor should in 2017. Dell excels at releasing a high end model, then copying its design down the line. I was really hoping for a USBC 4K 21 or 24" at this CES. It didn't happen. Not sure if I should keep my LG 4K.
The panel on my LG 4K is amazing, but seriously the bezel looks like its a from a wall street movie prop from 2005. The way my computers and accessories look matter (after all, I do buy Apple). Really disappointed Apple "worked with" LG on this screen and this is what they came up with.
I just got one of these LGs, put it on a VESA arm so I could rotate it to be portrait orientation, opened the Display system preferences, attempted to select the rotation - and there's no option to rotate the display. What?! Is there any way to force this on? I saw that old versions of the OS could do so by holding option and command while opening the Preferences app, but that doesn't give the option. This thing is literally not useful to me in landscape orientation because of the type of work I do. Any way to force rotation?
Anyone here running 2x (two) of the Lg/Ultrafine/5k monitors off one MBPr(2016)15" laptop?
I know it's supposed to work, and the launch promos from Apple depicted an editing setup.
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/z7...081/apple-macbook-event-20161027-8531.0.0.jpg
But there doesn't seem to be much out there in the way of reviews, user experience /evaluations, blogs etc. Even the AppleStores don't showcase such "ultimate" setups, which seems odd, even if only aspirational for many punters.
I know it's supposed to work, and the launch promos from Apple depicted an editing setup.
https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/z7...081/apple-macbook-event-20161027-8531.0.0.jpg
But there doesn't seem to be much out there in the way of reviews, user experience /evaluations, blogs etc. Even the AppleStores don't showcase such "ultimate" setups, which seems odd, even if only aspirational for many punters.
I saw this display yesterday in the Apple Store for the first time and honestly it looks cheap. Also the stand is lousy for all displays I checked in the Apple Store. It wasn't really sturdy but rather shaky. The image quality is nice but the design not so.
Ok maybe people play around with it too much. But I also checked some iMacs in comparison (just wanted to know) and their display seemed much more sturdy and the hinge wasn't shaky. So unless people specifically target the LG display to play around with more I tend to believe the stand / hinge is of lesser quality.
So, I too have been disappointed in the 4K/5K offerings until now. I got two of the LG Ultrafine 5K monitors and connected them to my Mac Pro 2013 and am blown away by the quality and performance. Each monitor is connected using a TB3 to TB 2 connecter to bus one and bus two (top left and top right TB ports). I then have all of my other devices connected to the third TB port. I have a Promise Technology 8 24TB RAID, an OWC 12 TB RAID, an OWC 4TB SSD RAID and an OWC TB2 Dock all connected to the their TB bus port (either of the bottom two TB ports on the Mac Pro. The amazing thing? It all works and the monitors are performing at their peak 5120 x 2880. They are nothing short of breath taking. My computer is finally doing what I intended it do do in 2013 when I purchased it.
How is it possible that you drive 5k monitor with it's native resolution, when it's not possible with TB2's bandwidth and even Applestore can't do that?
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-5-business-days.2026800/page-2#post-24180860
The bottom of the stand isn't bad. However the top part that connects to the monitor is cheap as heck. I have 3 USBC cables connected to the back, they flow naturally (aren't pulled) and the entire monitor tilts a few degrees to the right. I would return for DELL who I know makes solid monitors, but I quite like resolution on this monitor, the other 4Ks tend to be more 16:9
I went to the store to see if it was just my LG 4K but the ones in store, and the 5K, are loosy goosy at the connection point.
The panel itself is super nice. The plastic not so much.
Wow indeed.
Ok, say someone buys one of these from Apple, and the initial return period has since expired. Then the problems show up. They certainly don't mention all this in their Marketing, with no official warnings. And they're branded LG, so not covered by AppleCare. Will LG somehow "fix" the fault (free of charge), provide an alternative monitor (if any exist), or issue a refund (at replacement cost)? Just curious.