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Not the author, but in response to the many variations of "why would you do this?", the answer seems simple: If you do most of your computing on a Mac, this is

by lsy 5y ago

Not the author, but in response to the many variations of "why would you do this?", the answer seems simple: If you do most of your computing on a Mac, this is one of the few available monitors that has highly compatible resolution and behavior, and if you have a PC for gaming as well, not everyone has the space or desire to maintain a completely separate monitor expressly for the purpose of PC gaming.

searls 5y ago
Yeah, indeed. Not rocket science. I use a Mac all day for work and productivity. I play games sometimes on a PC. And as it pertains to games, I personally care way more about resolution and image quality than I care about frame rates exceeding 60hz, which is why I am super grateful to have this display and a beefy GPU that can easily drive it at native resolution at 60hz
Jimbonius 5y ago
krater23 5y ago
When you buy Apple, you have to have the space for a separate monitor. The suffering of the joung Apple user ;P
micromacrofoot 5y ago
Last I checked you can plug any monitor into a Mac, why would anyone need this one outside of further embellishing their Apple ecosystem of products? I don't buy an iPhone and get mad that it doesn't work with Android Auto.
- LimaBearz 5y ago
  Flip it. If I buy a monitor why can't I plug it into any computer I want? Same thing no? They all follow interoperability standards that have been around decades and that customers have come to expect as normal. Vendor lockin here isn't an "innovation" customers want
  - Gigachad 5y ago
    You can. You just don't get all the features you get when using it on a mac because a lot of them exceed what is possible with the current standards.
  - micromacrofoot 5y ago
    Vendor lock is pretty much Apple's thing.
  - oneplane 5y ago
    It's only vendor lock-in if you see this as 'yet another monitor', which it is not. Yes, it is made of mostly the same technologies, but it's neither marketed as nor specified for PC-use. The thing is that it's not about what you think the product should be, because the product won't morph itself into your desire. Just because there are 100 variations of the same monitor out there are all behave nearly the same (And might as well be condensed into 1 version with 2 bezel color options) doesn't mean that that is all there is to it. The ECU in your car uses the same SoC as the ECU in a truck. But that doesn't make your car a truck, or a truck your car. Just because there are technical similarities doesn't mean that therefore the products must be the same. If a manufacturer decides to focus on some form or function and simply not make other forms or other functions, that simply means that what you wanted and what the product is do not match, and therefore you should either not buy the product, or adjust your wishes. Since the latter isn't really required, not buying the product, but buying a different product instead seems to make the most sense to me.
    - dbttdft 5y ago
      Pretend there is meaningful market segmentation here all you want. At the end of the day all one has to do is plug in the DP cable and it will work as a regular monitor, and this probably bypasses some of the input lag of the built in OS.
      - oneplane 5y ago
        It depends on what you define as 'work'. A single still frame could be consider working, and other people might be more inclined to call 6K and 60fps to be 'working'. Trying to dilute what a thing actually is makes no sense, especially if you're essentially then trying to boil it down to the $100 category of computer monitors for home web browsing usage. Technically a display panel, row and column drivers, a tcon and an interface buffer is "a monitor" too. So is a CRT. And a DLP screen. But they are not the same thing and are not useful in the same scenarios.
- thirdsun 5y ago
  You can't buy any 5k / 27" displays other than this Studio Display and the almost as expensive LG Ultrafine. It is a pretty unique display. Too expensive for my taste but I wish there were other 5k / 27" options. And no, 4k on a 27" display isn't even close, primarily because you'd give up a lot of screen real estate with macOS' recommended 2x scaling.
Gigachad 5y ago
It's also the only monitor I know of that the settings are seamlessly controlled via the computer rather than a joystick and clunky menus. For some reason no OS will control the monitor brightness by default even though displayport and hdmi support it
- sleepy_keita 5y ago
  Back when I was Hackintoshing, MonitorControl (https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl) did wonders for me. I still use it on my MacBook Air when connecting to a non-Apple monitor.
- deleted 5y ago
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- karimf 5y ago
  I’ve been using Lunar on my mac and it’s working really well: https://lunar.fyi/ https://lunar.fyi/

by lsy 5y ago

searls 5y ago

Yeah, indeed. Not rocket science. I use a Mac all day for work and productivity. I play games sometimes on a PC. And as it pertains to games, I personally care way more about resolution and image quality than I care about frame rates exceeding 60hz, which is why I am super grateful to have this display and a beefy GPU that can easily drive it at native resolution at 60hz

Jimbonius 5y ago

krater23 5y ago

When you buy Apple, you have to have the space for a separate monitor. The suffering of the joung Apple user ;P

micromacrofoot 5y ago

Last I checked you can plug any monitor into a Mac, why would anyone need this one outside of further embellishing their Apple ecosystem of products? I don't buy an iPhone and get mad that it doesn't work with Android Auto.

LimaBearz 5y ago
Flip it. If I buy a monitor why can't I plug it into any computer I want? Same thing no? They all follow interoperability standards that have been around decades and that customers have come to expect as normal. Vendor lockin here isn't an "innovation" customers want
- Gigachad 5y ago
  You can. You just don't get all the features you get when using it on a mac because a lot of them exceed what is possible with the current standards.
- micromacrofoot 5y ago
  Vendor lock is pretty much Apple's thing.
- oneplane 5y ago
  It's only vendor lock-in if you see this as 'yet another monitor', which it is not. Yes, it is made of mostly the same technologies, but it's neither marketed as nor specified for PC-use. The thing is that it's not about what you think the product should be, because the product won't morph itself into your desire. Just because there are 100 variations of the same monitor out there are all behave nearly the same (And might as well be condensed into 1 version with 2 bezel color options) doesn't mean that that is all there is to it. The ECU in your car uses the same SoC as the ECU in a truck. But that doesn't make your car a truck, or a truck your car. Just because there are technical similarities doesn't mean that therefore the products must be the same. If a manufacturer decides to focus on some form or function and simply not make other forms or other functions, that simply means that what you wanted and what the product is do not match, and therefore you should either not buy the product, or adjust your wishes. Since the latter isn't really required, not buying the product, but buying a different product instead seems to make the most sense to me.
  - dbttdft 5y ago
    Pretend there is meaningful market segmentation here all you want. At the end of the day all one has to do is plug in the DP cable and it will work as a regular monitor, and this probably bypasses some of the input lag of the built in OS.
    - oneplane 5y ago
      It depends on what you define as 'work'. A single still frame could be consider working, and other people might be more inclined to call 6K and 60fps to be 'working'. Trying to dilute what a thing actually is makes no sense, especially if you're essentially then trying to boil it down to the $100 category of computer monitors for home web browsing usage. Technically a display panel, row and column drivers, a tcon and an interface buffer is "a monitor" too. So is a CRT. And a DLP screen. But they are not the same thing and are not useful in the same scenarios.
thirdsun 5y ago
You can't buy any 5k / 27" displays other than this Studio Display and the almost as expensive LG Ultrafine. It is a pretty unique display. Too expensive for my taste but I wish there were other 5k / 27" options. And no, 4k on a 27" display isn't even close, primarily because you'd give up a lot of screen real estate with macOS' recommended 2x scaling.

Gigachad 5y ago

It's also the only monitor I know of that the settings are seamlessly controlled via the computer rather than a joystick and clunky menus. For some reason no OS will control the monitor brightness by default even though displayport and hdmi support it

sleepy_keita 5y ago
Back when I was Hackintoshing, MonitorControl (https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl) did wonders for me. I still use it on my MacBook Air when connecting to a non-Apple monitor.
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karimf 5y ago
I’ve been using Lunar on my mac and it’s working really well: https://lunar.fyi/ https://lunar.fyi/