He meant the bezels don't really stand out during actual use. I found the same thing myself. The monitor looks hideous in pictures. When I got it and opened the box, I was pleasantly surprised that it looked better in person, but did still find the bezel to be very noticable.
That all changed once I mounted mine to a VESA arm and started using it. I haven't noticed the top bezel a single time in over two months of use. It became a non-issue once you stopped perseverating on it. If you're determined to be disgusted by it, you will. I'm sure there'll be a few of those people, but if you intend to just get on with your life, it does become seemingly invisible.
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Take a look at the 2016 MBP's screen and describe the bezels to me.
I have an issue with the rationale
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207448Can someone remind me how many of these the 15" MBPtb can run at the same time? Did I hear 3? If so, I wouldn't mind seeing what it would look like on one of those 3 monitor stands. Probably ridiculously slow graphics performance, but still kinda cool.
You do have to admit though, that there are a lot of people like me who found the lackluster design of the LG Ultrafines to be a non-issue once we started using them.
Yes - but there's a problem with that: sample bias. As you noted, there are people who have purchased this monitor, who didn't like the design initially, but now see the bezels as a non-issue. This behaviour is rational. Having bought the monitor, there is a clear incentive to live with the design and to even come to like it, in order to justify the purchasing decision. You can see how, with such an incentive structure, those readily apparent bezels can almost magically become 'invisible' in every day use.
Yes - but there's a problem with that: sample bias. As you noted, there are people who have purchased this monitor, who didn't like the design initially, but now see the bezels as a non-issue. This behaviour is rational. Having bought the monitor, there is a clear incentive to live with the design and to even come to like it, in order to justify the purchasing decision. You can see how, with such an incentive structure, those readily apparent bezels can almost magically become 'invisible' in every day use.
Yes - but there's a problem with that: sample bias. As you noted, there are people who have purchased this monitor, who didn't like the design initially, but now see the bezels as a non-issue. This behaviour is rational.
What you don't seem to want to admit is that people who have used the display for a month or more are in a much better position to give an honest and useful opinion on the display than someone who has only looked at product photos or had a quick look at it in a brightly lit Apple Store. I'm in a particularly good position to judge because my 14 day return period was renewed recently so I have both the benefit of using the display for 5 weeks AND the ability to get a full refund and walk away. That doesn't make my opinions or judgement any better than anyone else's
I understand the urge to emotionally justify your expenses, but the conclusion of someone who hasn't had extensive hands on experience with a product is therefore more valid because it means you're not emotionally biased? Please.
Yes, I'm entirely aware of that possibility that my opinion is fatally flawed by that I spent money on this thing, but I'm not just OK with this after accepting its faults. I F--ing love this monitor and I honestly don't ever walk up to it and justify to myself, "see that bezel's not so bad after all..." I don't do that because I don't even see it anymore, just like I stop noticing that there's a small dent in the passenger side door of my car.
That said, some people will not be able to sleep until that dent is fixed. Plenty of those people exist. Perhaps you're one of them and for you that bezel sucks to Pluto and back. That's perfectly fine with me. I'm not trying to change your mind about it.
You are correct to say that design matters. Design is hugely important and nobody's discounting that. I love design and I'm awed when good design is able to make something that is innately complex appear like it's pedestrian. I love design and that's why I'm so surprised to be so unabashedly positive about this rather unremarkable looking black rectangle floating over my desk. Design is important, but it is not everything.
My argument that the sample is subject to bias is analytically sound, and was not presented in an emotional way. Nice attempt to misframe my post though.
Signed up just to say that this gives me hope for an updated pro and mini. It would be asinine, even for Cook, to release an external monitor that only works with ONE of their products.
Everyone here is talking about the exterior aesthetics of this LG monitor. Can someone comment on how it actually performs and accurately represents colors?
In a time when Apple products are outdated and IMO insanely overpriced I could case less about how it looks.
Everyone here is talking about the exterior aesthetics of this LG monitor. Can someone comment on how it actually performs and accurately represents colors?
[doublepost=1489717183][/doublepost]I have no verified the round black dot must indicate that the product has the shielding fix.I just got off the phone with an Apple Sales Rep- he says that Apple's entire stock was sent back to LG, which is what caused the shipping delays. He believes that anything arriving from current orders have been updated by LG, regardless of the manufacturing date.
Couldn't be that Apple pulled out because they have something completely new and better coming in the future, though.(I have no insight other then my brain, don't ask for sources)
Apple is out to get you and destroy their company at the same time. Darn "accountants".
Everyone here thinks they can run Apple better, start your own multi-billion dollar company and then cater to the minority of users.
The shielding is a minor issue of this monitor- only those with routers close to the device have a problem. The universal problem seems to be the inability of this monitor to wake up after sleeping- look at the reviews on Apple's site and you'll find that the vast majority of the myriad of complaints have to do with the monitor going into a deep coma instead of sleeping, requiring restarts, cable unplugging and sometimes causing kernel panics. This is the real issue, and it's only being addressed in user reviews. I'm waiting to purchase a new MBP but I need to find an external monitor that's not only high quality and well integrated, which this one is, but is also reliable- this one clearly isn't.
That is not limited to just this monitor. My Dell monitor and a Windows PC have the same issue with Deep Sleeping monitors. I had to disable that feature.