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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
by 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 agoSo what's the benefit of the ASD if it has no better picture quality than the LG?
- dagmx 3y agoSlightly 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 agoIt'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 agoWhy “he”?
- talldatethrow 3y agoMy 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 agoBut I was noticing that the username was “filmgirl”.
- adastra22 3y agoBecause "he" is grammatically correct when the gender is unknown.
- tanelpoder 3y agoI don't have an ASD, but back in 2020 I bought the LG UltraFine 5K from Apple's website together with a laptop and the LG monitor's colors all had a yellowish hue to them. Some Internet searches and possibly their support forums claimed that this is normal, it's just how the monitor works, or something like that (yes I did try various color temperature and config settings - all yellow). Luckily this "wasn't my first monitor", so I quickly returned it and went back to Dell that's always been OK enough so I don't ever have to pay attention to which monitor or display setting I'm using.
- kklimonda 3y agoYou can't drive two LG 5k screens with a single cable, due to it lacking DSC support.
- shaunkoh 3y agoWhy no nano-texture?
- crimsontech 3y agoIt 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 agoI 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 agoWhy say no to the the nano texture? Looking at a studio display these days and trying to understand the option