Steve Jobs would've never done this.
Looking at your post history.....Aren't there better things you can be doing with your life than trolling Macrumors? Your nonconstructive Apple bashing comments are wasting everyones time, your's included.
Steve Jobs would've never done this.
Does anyone else find having an iMac makes them less likely to want external monitors? Back in my Windows days I wanted all the external monitors. Now I only want one to make my rMBP display bigger.
so apple only can deliver a 4k @60hz Thunderbolt display right? No 5k at 60hz..
No way. We will still complain about something, otherwise MacRumors will have no reason of existence.
At least we will complain that we have nothing to complain about.
You are not counting Apple's 30" Cinema Display in your pricing. That monitor never went for below $1000 and was priced at $3000 (2999) when it was announced.A 5K cinema display may well undercut a similar display from Dell. Plus Apple has never sold a display for more than $1000.
To be fair, there's still no standard for driving a 5K display.It took them over 5 years to release a new display? Jesus Christ, insane how they didn't complement one with the Mac Pro at the time either or with the 5K iMac.
The question remains, if time has passed long enough since apple touted how much better tb is compared to anything. Will they be humble enough to let dp1.3 out of usb-c socket without gen behind tb.Someone correct me if I'm wrong but, I think TB3 can potentially do 5k @ 60Hz by having a single TB3 cable carry two "Virtual" DisplayPort 1.2 cables, each supporting half the display... just like the current Dell 5k monitor uses two physical DisplayPort 1.2 cable. However, because Thunderbolt munges the DisplayPort signals with PCIe signals into a "thunderbolt" signal, this will only work if the display has a Thunderbolt controller.
DisplayPort 1.3 can do 5k @ 60Hz with a single cable, but (a) the TB 3 controller doesn't support DisplayPort 1.3 - probably because (b) Intel's integrated GPUs don't, either.
The wrinkle is that USB-C can support DisplayPort 1.3 in "DisplayPort Alternate Mode" and, since this works by physically allocating some or all of the USB-C wires to DisplayPort signals, the display doesn't need a special controller to de-mux them. This is more like the old TB1/2 "legacy" DisplayPort mode that lets you just plug a MiniDisplayPort device into a TB1/2 socket. However, if a future Mac has TB3 *and* a discrete GPU that can do DP1.3, I'm guessing that the Intel TB3 controller driving the USB-C socket will still limit it to DP 1.2
...so, the pain is that there are going to be two ways of driving displays: DisplayPort 1.2 over Thunderbolt (needs a Thunderbolt display & uses two virtual connections for 5k) and DisplayPort 1.3 over USB-C (simple USB-C to DisplayPort adapter - or USB-C might become the de-facto DP 1.3 connector).
I would buy one but my mid-2012 rMBP can't handle it. Might as well get a 5K iMac and keep the rMBP.
Does anyone else find having an iMac makes them less likely to want external monitors? Back in my Windows days I wanted all the external monitors. Now I only want one to make my rMBP display bigger. At work I've never felt the need for an external display to pair with my 27" iMac. Mac OS does such a good job with managing spaces that I feel like I already have multiple displays. I think there are only specific jobs that would require multiple displays these days, such as video editing or maybe a day trader. But if you're not a pro video editor one display is fine, especially if it's as big as the 27" iMac.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but, I think TB3 can potentially do 5k @ 60Hz by having a single TB3 cable carry two "Virtual" DisplayPort 1.2 cables, each supporting half the display... just like the current Dell 5k monitor uses two physical DisplayPort 1.2 cable. However, because Thunderbolt munges the DisplayPort signals with PCIe signals into a "thunderbolt" signal, this will only work if the display has a Thunderbolt controller.
The new Thunderbolt Display is going to be the same resolution and everything...just with USB 3. Mark my words.![]()
Most accurate assessment here. Sadly.