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I love this comment, I think you're completely right. What I love most about this comment is how it caused me to reflect on what I use daily and get some amoun

by dijit 3y ago

I love this comment, I think you're completely right. What I love most about this comment is how it caused me to reflect on what I use daily and get some amount of joy from. When it comes to Apple products in particular I use an Apple Studio display at home, I use it for 10hours per day, every day, and honestly I have no complaints, it's probably one of the best bits of technology I use daily. However, it's completely unsexy and has (at least on paper) extremely stiff competition. Not only that it was maligned by the tech media upon release. Yet, it just subtlely benefits my life because the speakers are excellent, the webcam is servicable (the novelty of the fact it tracks you never truly wears off) and the size/pixel density is great. It's weird that I'm waxing poetic like this about such a boring device, but that's kinda my point, your comment made me reflect about all the little tech around me that I use every day that just sort of shifted into the background. Quietly doing its job excellently.

filmgirlcw 3y ago
Yeah, I agree. I rolled my eyes when I bought the Studio Display because of the price (I got the VESA option so I also had to factor in $200 for an Ergotron LX just so I could use it the way I’d want) and I’m annoyed by its lack of power button, its garbage web camera, and the really that it has no better picture quality than the v2 LG UltraFine 5K it was replacing, despite costing $300 more, but if it broke tomorrow I’d buy another one without a second thought (also the VESA option — also just say no to the Nano Texture option). In fact, I might even get a second one this year because I have 3 Macs (2 M-series laptops and a 2020 5K iMac) and it would be nice to have one dedicated to the laptops instead of having to swap the cable for the TB4 dock. Until/unless Apple does fractional scaling in a way that doesn’t really need pixel doubling to work, I will insist on a 5K display for a 27” monitor and the ASD really is the best game in town.
- theyinwhy 3y ago
  So what's the benefit of the ASD if it has no better picture quality than the LG?
  - dagmx 3y ago
    Slightly brighter, much better build quality, much better audio and much better camera. But at the same time, I see the LG is down to $999 (I suspect it’ll be discontinued soon if it isn’t already) and it’s debatable that the studio display is $600 better. It’s definitely $300 better though. That said, it is increasingly more difficult to buy the LG. So it’s become less of a choice.
  - sensanaty 3y ago
    It's always crazy reading those kinda comments. He keeps maligning the product that he had to pay a premium for, comparing it to equivalent products that are cheaper and perform the same, yet he's still going to make his next purchase another, by his own admission, overpriced Apple product. It's mind blowing, I don't wanna reach for the low-hanging quips here but it really is like an Apple iCult type of vibe
    - jb1991 3y ago
      Why “he”?
      - talldatethrow 3y ago
        My friend sold boats for over 10 years. He said women love going on boats, but he never saw a woman buy a boat in his life. Women love apple products, but if you look at who is splurging on multiple high end apple computers with multiple monitors it's gotta be 95% male.
        jb1991 3y ago
        But I was noticing that the username was “filmgirl”.
      - adastra22 3y ago
        Because "he" is grammatically correct when the gender is unknown.
- shaunkoh 3y ago
  Why no nano-texture?
  - crimsontech 3y ago
    It causes fringing around letters and stops things looking as sharp, which sort of defeats the point of having a 5k display for a lot of people.
- charrondev 3y ago
  I guess most people just like their UI elements much smaller than me, I work all day on a 42” 4k display running 1080p@2x 120hz and I wouldn’t want to shrink the UI elements any further. I sit ~4 feet from the display. My husband uses an iMac (27” 5k display running @2x) and I struggle to do anything at that resolution.
- _alex_ 3y ago
  Why say no to the the nano texture? Looking at a studio display these days and trying to understand the option
nunez 3y ago
Interesting. I have a Studio Display and it just feels like a huge compromise. There are only two 5K displays on the market that can render macOS at Retina resolution on a 27" panel: this one and the LG Ultrafine, which isn't that much cheaper. My last monitor was a 27" LG QD-OLED 144Hz 4K display. I LOVED that display, but text wasn't sharp because of the Retina resolution problem. I also have a semi-professional webcam setup and external speakers, so those being built-in does nothing for me. I just want macOS to support variable scaling like Windows has for, what, 15 years at least?
- mrbuttons454 3y ago
  macOS does support more than one “virtual” resolution, which I’d consider variable scaling. It’s admittedly less granular than Windows, but it works well enough for me. I have a 27” Acer Predator 4k120 display on my shop Mac, with the virtual resolution set to 2560x1440.
  - isametry 3y ago
    There’s only two scaling factors macOS can display at: 1x or 2x. Anything in-between is rendering at a larger resolution and scaling it back down for the display, resulting in a non-pixel-perfect image. Your shop Mac is rendering the UI at 5120 × 2880, then squishing that down for the Acer display. Which, apart from being more graphically demanding, ends up blurry and aliased. What Windows does is actually just changing the pixel dimensions of the UI elements (in steps of 10% I think?), which Apple has never done.
- brtkdotse 3y ago
  > I just want macOS to support variable scaling like Windows has for, what, 15 years at least? I’ve tried to adopt MacBooks twice over the last three years and both times this has been the dealbreaker for me. I was flabbergasted that MacOS didn’t have better support for it.
- densh 3y ago
  BetterDisplay lets you set fractional resolutions for any displays on Mac. While this seems like a compromise, it lets you scale the ui to you preferred size independently of the native resolution. I use my 5k display at 85% which is a bit easier on my eyes than native 100%.
Aeolun 3y ago
I just have a bog standard cheapest 4K display, and I have more or less the same experience.
dgellow 3y ago
Every few years I buy Dell QHD displays 24’’ second hands on local ads websites, I have 4 of them (not all installed at the same place), for an average of ~150€ per display. They are definitely not sexy but work perfectly as monitors and hubs.
- afpx 3y ago
  Why do you replace them every few years?
  - dgellow 3y ago
    I do not replace them, I buy additional ones
reacharavindh 3y ago
I feel the same way about the utility of my AirPods. It is simple, boring, works every time I need it to, without any fuss or connection issues or pesky cables. Although, I have a strict policy of not sharing my AirPods, or let it connect to anything other than my iPhone to make sure I don’t get into the mess of “figure out which device it auto connects to” etc.
- ajdude 3y ago
  What it's worth, I currently use my AirPods on: - my personal iPhone - my work iPhone - my personal MacBook - my work MacBook And not once have I ever had to worry about it being connected to the wrong device, it seems to just keep track of all the devices around and everything "just works" In mind these are AirPod pro 2s

by dijit 3y ago

filmgirlcw 3y ago

Yeah, I agree. I rolled my eyes when I bought the Studio Display because of the price (I got the VESA option so I also had to factor in $200 for an Ergotron LX just so I could use it the way I’d want) and I’m annoyed by its lack of power button, its garbage web camera, and the really that it has no better picture quality than the v2 LG UltraFine 5K it was replacing, despite costing $300 more, but if it broke tomorrow I’d buy another one without a second thought (also the VESA option — also just say no to the Nano Texture option). In fact, I might even get a second one this year because I have 3 Macs (2 M-series laptops and a 2020 5K iMac) and it would be nice to have one dedicated to the laptops instead of having to swap the cable for the TB4 dock. Until/unless Apple does fractional scaling in a way that doesn’t really need pixel doubling to work, I will insist on a 5K display for a 27” monitor and the ASD really is the best game in town.

theyinwhy 3y ago
So what's the benefit of the ASD if it has no better picture quality than the LG?
- dagmx 3y ago
  Slightly brighter, much better build quality, much better audio and much better camera. But at the same time, I see the LG is down to $999 (I suspect it’ll be discontinued soon if it isn’t already) and it’s debatable that the studio display is $600 better. It’s definitely $300 better though. That said, it is increasingly more difficult to buy the LG. So it’s become less of a choice.
- sensanaty 3y ago
  It's always crazy reading those kinda comments. He keeps maligning the product that he had to pay a premium for, comparing it to equivalent products that are cheaper and perform the same, yet he's still going to make his next purchase another, by his own admission, overpriced Apple product. It's mind blowing, I don't wanna reach for the low-hanging quips here but it really is like an Apple iCult type of vibe
  - jb1991 3y ago
    Why “he”?
    - talldatethrow 3y ago
      My friend sold boats for over 10 years. He said women love going on boats, but he never saw a woman buy a boat in his life. Women love apple products, but if you look at who is splurging on multiple high end apple computers with multiple monitors it's gotta be 95% male.
      - jb1991 3y ago
        But I was noticing that the username was “filmgirl”.
    - adastra22 3y ago
      Because "he" is grammatically correct when the gender is unknown.
shaunkoh 3y ago
Why no nano-texture?
- crimsontech 3y ago
  It causes fringing around letters and stops things looking as sharp, which sort of defeats the point of having a 5k display for a lot of people.
charrondev 3y ago
I guess most people just like their UI elements much smaller than me, I work all day on a 42” 4k display running 1080p@2x 120hz and I wouldn’t want to shrink the UI elements any further. I sit ~4 feet from the display. My husband uses an iMac (27” 5k display running @2x) and I struggle to do anything at that resolution.
_alex_ 3y ago
Why say no to the the nano texture? Looking at a studio display these days and trying to understand the option

nunez 3y ago

Interesting. I have a Studio Display and it just feels like a huge compromise. There are only two 5K displays on the market that can render macOS at Retina resolution on a 27" panel: this one and the LG Ultrafine, which isn't that much cheaper. My last monitor was a 27" LG QD-OLED 144Hz 4K display. I LOVED that display, but text wasn't sharp because of the Retina resolution problem. I also have a semi-professional webcam setup and external speakers, so those being built-in does nothing for me. I just want macOS to support variable scaling like Windows has for, what, 15 years at least?

mrbuttons454 3y ago
macOS does support more than one “virtual” resolution, which I’d consider variable scaling. It’s admittedly less granular than Windows, but it works well enough for me. I have a 27” Acer Predator 4k120 display on my shop Mac, with the virtual resolution set to 2560x1440.
- isametry 3y ago
  There’s only two scaling factors macOS can display at: 1x or 2x. Anything in-between is rendering at a larger resolution and scaling it back down for the display, resulting in a non-pixel-perfect image. Your shop Mac is rendering the UI at 5120 × 2880, then squishing that down for the Acer display. Which, apart from being more graphically demanding, ends up blurry and aliased. What Windows does is actually just changing the pixel dimensions of the UI elements (in steps of 10% I think?), which Apple has never done.
brtkdotse 3y ago
> I just want macOS to support variable scaling like Windows has for, what, 15 years at least? I’ve tried to adopt MacBooks twice over the last three years and both times this has been the dealbreaker for me. I was flabbergasted that MacOS didn’t have better support for it.
densh 3y ago
BetterDisplay lets you set fractional resolutions for any displays on Mac. While this seems like a compromise, it lets you scale the ui to you preferred size independently of the native resolution. I use my 5k display at 85% which is a bit easier on my eyes than native 100%.

Aeolun 3y ago

I just have a bog standard cheapest 4K display, and I have more or less the same experience.

dgellow 3y ago

Every few years I buy Dell QHD displays 24’’ second hands on local ads websites, I have 4 of them (not all installed at the same place), for an average of ~150€ per display. They are definitely not sexy but work perfectly as monitors and hubs.

afpx 3y ago
Why do you replace them every few years?
- dgellow 3y ago
  I do not replace them, I buy additional ones

reacharavindh 3y ago

I feel the same way about the utility of my AirPods. It is simple, boring, works every time I need it to, without any fuss or connection issues or pesky cables. Although, I have a strict policy of not sharing my AirPods, or let it connect to anything other than my iPhone to make sure I don’t get into the mess of “figure out which device it auto connects to” etc.

ajdude 3y ago
What it's worth, I currently use my AirPods on: - my personal iPhone - my work iPhone - my personal MacBook - my work MacBook And not once have I ever had to worry about it being connected to the wrong device, it seems to just keep track of all the devices around and everything "just works" In mind these are AirPod pro 2s