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The main problem with that is that there are no decent 5K monitors. The Apple Studio Display is literally the same price as the iMac (so a Studio Display + Mac
by mort96 3y ago
The main problem with that is that there are no decent 5K monitors. The Apple Studio Display is literally the same price as the iMac (so a Studio Display + Mac Mini/Studio is ridiculously expensive). The 5K 27" LG UltraFine is not that much cheaper, and people are saying it has pretty terrible build quality (at least compared to an iMac). And those are pretty much the only 5K monitors.
- jseliger 3y agoSamsung now makes one: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/5k/27-viewfinity-s9-5k-monitor-with-thunderbolt-4-matte-display-and-smart-features-ls27c900panxza/ https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/5k/27-viewfini...
- mort96 3y agoThanks, I didn't know that. It seems to be even closer to the iMac in price, which I'm guessing it makes up for in build quality but that means separately buying the computer and monitor is still very expensive compared to what a hypothetical 27" iMac would cost, and the name "smart monitor" makes my skin crawl... but it seems like a decent somewhat cheaper alternative to the Studio Display. Hopefully these 5K 27" monitors will get more widespread and cheaper over time.
- PakG1 3y agoThey have to. I remember my family paying $2000 CAD for a 15" LCD monitor in the 90s. That monitor was crap, looking back at it, but it was state of the art. Electronics always go down in price over time, the question is how long is the wait.
- tshaddox 3y agoThere's also the new Samsung 27" ViewFinity S9 5K. The list price is $1600 but Amazon has it for $1300 in the U.S. I've heard mixed reviews, particularly about how smoothly it works with Macs.
- pathartl 3y agoI'm not old, but things like this make me go "back in my day we had a CRT with one input, VGA, and it just worked". Obviously we don't have to worry too much about a monitor's supported modes anymore (though that wasn't a problem at the tail end of the CRT), but we're in a period where plugging in a monitor doesn't guarantee that it'll work. Signal integrity and all that sure, but really it's just a freaking monitor.
- vvillena 3y agoThe VGA days were the times where a computer user could kill a CRT screen because the analog data stream wasn't what the monitor supported or expected. I don't miss those days! Plugging a monitor nowadays will always work. Of course, buying a new monitor only to have it fall back to a lower-quality compatible mode is unacceptable, but that's what happens in today's world. Monitors are more varied than ever. A 1080p60 monitor will work everywhere, and all monitors will accept such a signal. But we all love fancy toys.
- tshaddox 3y agoTrue, although to be fair I did spent an inordinate amount of time circa 2006 trying to get multiple monitor setups working reliably in Linux, across several years, PCs, and Linux distros.
- reaperman 3y agoI'm partial to the $800 Huawei MateView 28". It's only 9.8 million pixels compared to the 14.7 million pixels of the $1,300 5K UltraFine 27" and $1,300 5K Samsung ViewFinity 27" (Standard 4K is 8.8 million pixels), but the MateView has a 3:2 aspect ratio! So you get 20% more vertical real estate than a standard 4K aspect ratio.
- myrandomcomment 3y agoI have both the "Apple" LG 4K and the LG 27" 5K and both just worked for the most part. The 5K is my daily driver plugged into an M1 MacMini.