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The pricing is so odd. For $300 more, you can get a monitor with _much_ better resolution (5120x2880), though in a smaller screen size. It's called an iMac. h
by sampl 9y ago
The pricing is so odd. For $300 more, you can get a monitor with _much_ better resolution (5120x2880), though in a smaller screen size.
It's called an iMac.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac/27-inch https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac/27-inch
- blattimwind 9y ago5K 27" displays are much less than this.
- LeoNatan25 9y ago5K 27” with wide color gamut and good calibration? Please post links here.
- nine_k 9y agoFor photo / graphics work, wide gamut and calibration are important. For text editing, less so. High DPI is important for me, though.
- irq 9y agoLG 5K 27" display. 100% coverage of P3 gamut. $1299. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62/lg-ultrafine-5k-display?fnode=4c https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62/lg-ultrafine-5k-dis...
- LeoNatan25 9y agoThis is a good display, and price has gone down. But anyway to connect it to a Windows 10 / nVidia PC and get the full 5K resolution? No GPU that I’m familiar with has support for USB-C.
- irq 9y agoMSI NVIDIA GTX1080Ti GPU with USB-C: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/57725/msi-first-graphics-card-usb-type-port/index.html http://www.tweaktown.com/news/57725/msi-first-graphics-card-...
- LeoNatan25 9y agoInteresting! Too bad already bought a 1080Ti. Definitely good news for future purchases, though.
- Razengan 9y agoNot to mention all 2017 Macs are also 10-bits-per-channel, as well as P3, so they have “wide” color and “deep” color.
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- JohnTHaller 9y agoThis screen is much bigger (37.5" vs 27"), has a better refresh rate (75Hz vs 60Hz), and is curved. All of those things correspond with higher price for both the panel itself and the resulting product that contains it. * removed mention of FreeSync as this display lacks it
- et2o 9y agoThis does not have FreeSync
- JohnTHaller 9y agoQuite right, updated
- siidooloo 9y agoWhy do people want curved displays. They get glare from evey angle, and the image is distorted.
- tambourine_man 9y agoI can't understand it either
- JohnTHaller 9y agoSome people want a single screen to always be the same distance. And most curved monitors geared towards business users are anti-glare as this one is.
- nightski 9y agoIt's not odd. The size is what makes this expensive. It's 10 inches more screen, and curved to boot (which you may not care about, but it does affect cost).
- freeflight 9y ago> curved to boot (which you may not care about, but it does affect cost) Not too long ago the curved models used to be cheaper with big discounts, at least for TV's, because nobody wanted to have a curved TV.
- _ph_ 9y agoI have a 5k iMac myself, but for my work, which is Linux based, I would rather have that wide-screen. The iMac for sure has the way better font rendering, but the real estate is that of a 27" screen. With Linux, HiDpi support isn't quite there yet - so for now the 38" screen gives you the larger desktop.
- robotresearcher 9y ago> but the real estate is that of a 27" screen By default. A couple of clicks in Preferences will get you higher or very-high-indeed effective real estate.
- _ph_ 9y ago10 years ago, I might have agreed to you :). But at a certain age, you are happy if you can focus on the default size resolution.