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Testing the New ASUS ProArt 5K Display
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5K across and 2K (2160 down) vs. ASD 5K across and 2880 pixels down. It's not wider 4K but it is wider 5K. The sacrifice is in some pixels in the vertical... and however we want to feel about spreading 5K out to a wider screen enclosure instead of compressing them into thinner work space.
It's also 120Hz instead of 60Hz. So if one can handle the loss of 720 pixels in the vertical, they can enjoy that doubled Hz, so often slung around to rationalize other Apple tech.
And then there's the abundant built-in hub/KVM vs. only a couple of jacks of one type...
...which I find tremendously useful myself.
It doesn't have a built-in cam but Continuity Camera allows us to use far superior camera quality to fully wash that. It doesn't have good speakers but anyone wanting great speakers should have bought great third party ones which easily outperform tiny little speakers baked into a thin case of any monitor (or TV) including ASDs. And of course, it doesn't have an Apple logo but one could stick on an Apple sticker and likely fool anyone if that's the most important thing to us.
To each his own of course. I certainly consider it an excellent option for Mac people wanting more screen for the same money. Or one could buy TWO of these new ASUS monitors for TWO 5K monitors side-by-side as another alternative for about the same money as ASD too.
To each their own. A curved screen is a joke for photography work so that's a non starter for my usage (and probably anyone who does photo/video/graphics professionally). I've never been happy with any Dell monitor I've seen, and I see the one described here has resolution that's only 140 DPI, which is laughable, and would account for the overall softness and lack of clarity I've seen before.
I used to work somewhere that had Dell PCs and monitors. Wrong tool for the job. Maybe a lower resolution, stretched 120Hz monitor is the right monitor for a lot of people though. I can see gamers getting a kick out of it, with the content being what provides the color, contrast and saturation and having that higher refresh rate.
I had the asus for a week. It has a terrible grainy coating on it and the ui is trash. Terrible apple experience.
Studio display went on sale last week on Amazon for 1299. I now have one.
I went to the ASUS online store and found this page with retailers in Canada. I didn't check the links but maybe you can check there? Good luck!
Dude, you're forgetting the most important part that completely sinks that display. It's made of plastic.
I don't know if you have ever experienced it, but most MacOS users have absolutely seen plastic monitors absolutely fall apart in front of their eyes because of the cheaply-built plastic cases on them. It is crazy how many monitors absolutely fail because they are made of plastic. Don't believe me? Ask people here. They'll tell you. Over and over again.
Waiting for the RTINGS review. It's on the wish list, pretty high up. Go and upvote it to make it their next thing to review: https://www.rtings.com/monitor
Aren't those the (notoriously misnomered) "5K2K" monitors? I.e., not really the Apple spec of 218dpi.
No one it seems has it in stock. Thats a Canada thing. BTW I did see Visteks website.
Only in Apple world would one call a resolution label of "5K2K" for a monitor with a 5K x 2K resolution "misnomered".
It's not a low end webcam. it's actually quite nice and does some cool stuff like following you around, zoom in / out. While the initial ver of the firmware wasn't great, it's gotten pretty good with most apps. 4K webcam is a waste as most folks don't have the bandwidth to support that as an outgoing format. the apple webcam is higher res and outputs 1920 cropped and scaled. also generally has good white balance.
I wonder if they're just buying old Apple panels. Those 5K screens have been around for a long time. I didn't think a Mac could drive 5K without Thunderbolt, so this is a little strange to me.
As far as I've seen, the 5K 27 inch OLED that Samsung showed off at CES this year was only given a date of "Future" and some people have predicted that one is not coming until 2026.
Not to be confused with the 4K 27in OLED that was on display right next to it, that one is coming in the first half of this year.
I assume you have an M Series MacBook Pro. Does ProMotion work on your external display the same way it does on the MacBook screen? Do you use HDMI 2.1 to connect it? I assume so.Agree on the refresh rate. Now using a display that can handle 240 Hz I’ve settled for 144 Hz in MacOS (to save some power – I also use the display in Windows for gaming) and it’s so much nicer and fluid to interact the OS with that display compared to the 60 Hz display I have at work.
It feels strange to say this, but I think I’m even willing to sacrifice some pixel density for the higher refresh rate. The display K have at home is a 16:9 at 32 inches (31.5 to be exact) and 4K, so the pixel density is nowhere near that of a 5K 16:9 at 27-inches, but the size and the refresh rate do make up for that more than I thought it would.
Would of course be nice to have 6K at 32 inches and 144 Hz or faster refresh rate. Maybe my next display in 10 years or so will be have that.
You can, but it’s convenient to have it all so a Mac Mini becomes like a 24” iMac, nothing more to take up your desktop.
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No argument, if anyone sold a mini-HDR display that was 5 k that would be preferable even if the price was closer to the Studio Display.
An updated Mac Studio and Studio Display are two more products I’m still waiting for.
They also need a cheaper display option to pair with the Mac Mini.
They also need a cheaper display option to pair with the Mac Mini.
If you like the same center stage and yes better then typical monitor speakers for the M4 Mac Mini, M2 Studio Mac, or M2 Mac Pro you would diffidently get the ASD. Most of this concerns video quality which that debate ended years ago. Also the TB3 hub is very useful that the ASD provides.
Samsung and LG's are also plastic and yet not much cheaper than the studio display.
Both are better alternatives. The new LG shown at CES is the one to chase after this year.
Same here, pulls the price down $300. The TB3 hub is also a decision point of contention over connectivity.