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No 5K Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU Coming at WWDC

What's wrong with the idea that Apple will give us a new > 30" Retina Display (TB3 and USB C), and optionally a Mac-compatible external TB3 GPU is announced (3rd party)?
 
I stopped getting excited for an external display update about 2 1/2 years ago when the Apple marketing team went into overdrive about the nMP being a machine built for Final Cut and video editors and how you connect seemingly endless numbers of 4K displays (I think it was really like 4 or 8) only to launch it with no 4K display of their own on the CTO page.
 
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I wonder if/when Thunderbolt / USB-C will support DisplayPort 1.3? Or maybe bypass 1.3 & go straight to 1.4?
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
You must be very young. Worst day of your life is someone you love greatly dies. Or when someone you love is diagnosed with an incurable, fatal disease... or you are. Etc.

It's not when a rumor about a big company releasing a tech product is followed by another rumor saying they are not releasing that product. There's plenty of great monitors you can buy out there.

Worst day? Put down the tech and go out and live a little in the non-tech world. There are many best days and worst days of your life to experience that doesn't even involve technology at all.

At the other end of the spectrum, I recall a "my life is now complete" post in a thread that pretty much confirmed a 5.5" iPhone would indeed be launching. What was that- 2 years ago? That poor guy. His life was complete 2 years ago and now it's all downhill waiting for death.

Maybe you and that guy should connect and then put down the tech and go have some experiences that yield much higher highs and lower lows than you ever get out of a slab of metal, glass, silicon and some electricity?😉
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Dude I don't think it was literal. Kinda like "my team losing to the NY Yankees is the worst thing ever." We all know that a nuclear blast, for example, would be worse than losing to the Yankees (*).

(*) Provided we're not talking about losing on Game 7 of the World Series, 11th inning.
 
apolloa said:
Ah, sorry, I didn't catch the sarcasm in the post, trouble with the internet haha, no facial or body language or tone of voice to show the context of what your saying.
In that case I fully agree with your post sir.
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Haha, no worries, it's difficult to know whether or not someone is being sarcastic.
 
It's time for Apple to stop playing "guess what " games and start announcing what will be introduced before each keynote. There is no point in trying hard to surprise us because that was done in prior 2011. It's time for Apple to play "I'll tell you little about what will be released before keynote" game.
 
I know what's in store: A holographic-projecting iMac with an AI Siri stock manager that makes you money while you sleep!

You know this would be great, but how far away are we from complete voice control/voice dictation and a system that can automatically sense and adjust settings and parameters for any given situation? We are still operating our computers on the model of the Apple II!!! (Screen, keyboard, plug-in devices, etc) The model of a CPU and manual user control, is what I am saying.
 
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Zirel said:
Yes, there will be. It's called the iMac 5K, and it's a GPU+CPU+etc attached to a monitor.

Costs less than dell's inferior 5K monitor, too!

Even if you upgrade to a PCI-Ex, or fusion drive, still costs less than the Dell!
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It's not uncommon for Dell and Apple to use the same brand/model of panel in question, I've seen that in the past as have some professional reviewers...

Oh, one other thing: There aren't too many "5K panels" in existence. Not hard to deduce that, in all probability, both could very well be the identical panel just with, if anything, different circuitry to process the signal, where Apple's design ends up being the better of the two in producing the output the panel displays.

In some cases, both brands use different models of panel from the same maker and same type (___-IPS, SPVA, TN, whatever...) but in some cases they use both.

So, with that technical primer down, what is the panel brand and its model number that the Dell you referenced used, followed by the one Apple uses? That will help a lot, and that way I and others can make more informed decisions after reading up on specifications and benchmarks (of which there are many) to really know if Dell's equivalent is as pitiful as suggested, though for not it sounds like empty peacock flag banner waving that made more sense when the Jacobites, Visigoths, cavemen, etc, existed.

Much thanks!
 
Lesser Evets said:
Please... this is news? Apple is Apple. We'll get monitors once the paradigm is ready to shift.
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No doubt. Until then, many brands exist. All people need do is research. Heck, until 2009 Apple used really ****ty TN panels for MacBook "Pro" models. After that the quality was better, as far as TN technology goes and it was still pretty sad. Even when other brands finally used VA and IPS panels, the MBP was still TN-based. Even when the iPad came out, which used IPS, the "Pro" device costing 2~3x as much still had a pitiful TN...
 
It would be totally ****ing awesome if we could run OS X on an iPad Pro with such a new Apple Displqy
 
patrickbarnes said:
There's a 5k screen coming. It's not going to include an integrated GPU because that's dumb.

Like, really dumb.
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Like how IBM's CGA used a composite CRT's phosphor layout to turn 3 tremendously ugly colors into far more? (EGA and newer would have the GPU do all the rendering, making life easier for users of actual RGB monitors...)

Maybe the monitor you're describing uses Thunderbolt, which would be the only way to effectively handle so much data throughput. It's still dumb, especially if the integrated GPU can't be replaced as a modular item (for, if no other reason, ecological/landfill waste concerns, but there are MANY to consider and Apple's history is not as much modular as it is to make it nonstandard and proprietary, even my 27" ACD - despite working flawlessly - becomes useless since its minidisplayport is not standard, and few brands used it back when it was comparartively "popular")
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2013.1 said:
It would be totally ****ing awesome if we could run OS X on an iPad Pro with such a new Apple Displqy
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A real tablet? Windows has done that for years. Apple hasn't. Despite some of us asking. Apple isn't going to do it.

Why Apple won't open up OS X, and the technically inclined already know the answers to what the technically unaware are about to say because that's not the actual reason...
 
The 5K iMac was an anomaly with a bunch of proprietary tweaks to accomplish it, being an all-in-one. Do NOT expect that to repeat. It was a stick-in-the-eye to the PC industry to bait them to catch up. It didn't work.

The next thing is 4K panels and hopefully daisy chained on low-mid priced Macs or an option to add dedicated graphics, which are now cheap, to the solution on Mac-Mini and even low end Powerbooks.
 
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