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This sounds terrible for the consumers and for the environment as once the computer inside dies or is obsolete, you have to throw away a perfectly good display

This sounds terrible for the consumers and for the environment as once the computer inside dies or is obsolete, you have to throw away a perfectly good display that could have a second life as an external monitor plugged into a more modern system since display technology doesn't go outdated as fast as computing.

Forgeties79 5y ago
As someone who finally bit the bullet and scrapped/curbed 2 old iMacs, yeah. It hurt a lot. Perfectly good, well-calibrated 21.5” and 27” monitors just reduced to paper weights. Plucked the ram/HDD’s and sent them on their way. I looked into every possible option for them. Such a waste.
- kllrnohj 5y ago
  Especially a waste since it's even the same panel as the one you're throwing away. Apple hasn't upgraded the 27" 5k for 8 years now, this new one included (lots of non-display upgrades like the camera and audio, sure, but the display itself hasn't changed)
  - Forgeties79 5y ago
    27” 2.5K actually (should’ve specified). It was a mid-2011 iMac. The 21” was a 2009 (belonged to a sibling).
jkestner 5y ago
It's terrible. The original reason Apple dropped this feature was because there wasn't an external bus that could push that many pixels. But Thunderbolt can do it now. This reuse would be more meaningful than preconsumer recycling of aluminum. I use https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay/ https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay/ to use my iPad or an old Mac's screen as a secondary screen and it's good.
- Forgeties79 5y ago
  Well this is upsetting. I just scrapped and curbed 2x iMacs like 2 months ago because they couldn’t do anything anymore. This would’ve been perfect.
jibbers 5y ago
Wouldn’t an obsolete computer still be perfectly fine for less demanding users? Average Joes, poor people, a kid’s first PC, etc. — give it away, I say.
- Forgeties79 5y ago
  Depends on how old. My sisters old iMac ran perfectly fine but couldn’t load 75% of the internet unfortunately and most of the apps couldn’t be updated past a 5-6 year old build.

Forgeties79 5y ago

As someone who finally bit the bullet and scrapped/curbed 2 old iMacs, yeah. It hurt a lot. Perfectly good, well-calibrated 21.5” and 27” monitors just reduced to paper weights. Plucked the ram/HDD’s and sent them on their way. I looked into every possible option for them. Such a waste.

kllrnohj 5y ago
Especially a waste since it's even the same panel as the one you're throwing away. Apple hasn't upgraded the 27" 5k for 8 years now, this new one included (lots of non-display upgrades like the camera and audio, sure, but the display itself hasn't changed)
- Forgeties79 5y ago
  27” 2.5K actually (should’ve specified). It was a mid-2011 iMac. The 21” was a 2009 (belonged to a sibling).

jkestner 5y ago

It's terrible. The original reason Apple dropped this feature was because there wasn't an external bus that could push that many pixels. But Thunderbolt can do it now. This reuse would be more meaningful than preconsumer recycling of aluminum. I use https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay/ https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay/ to use my iPad or an old Mac's screen as a secondary screen and it's good.

Forgeties79 5y ago
Well this is upsetting. I just scrapped and curbed 2x iMacs like 2 months ago because they couldn’t do anything anymore. This would’ve been perfect.

jibbers 5y ago

Wouldn’t an obsolete computer still be perfectly fine for less demanding users? Average Joes, poor people, a kid’s first PC, etc. — give it away, I say.

Forgeties79 5y ago
Depends on how old. My sisters old iMac ran perfectly fine but couldn’t load 75% of the internet unfortunately and most of the apps couldn’t be updated past a 5-6 year old build.