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32-Inch iMac With Mini-LED Display Rumored to Launch in 2025
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With no supply chain material to make an educated guess on this will be utter speculation with absolutely no basis other than guessing.
These “analysts” have copied the social media influencer method of click bait headlines to get attention.
These “analysts” have copied the social media influencer method of click bait headlines to get attention.
Meh! I don't care about any iMac, give us an affordable 32 Apple monitor!
For Pete's sake, Apple, release a new version of the 32" XDR display with more zones and cheaper pricing!
Remember that iMacs used to be 21” and 27”. Going to 24 and 32 makes a lot of sense. The issue is that a mini LED 32” IMac would start at $4,999 at a minimum.
For those calling for a 27” form factor - grab an Apple Studio Display and the computer of your choice
For those calling for a 27” form factor - grab an Apple Studio Display and the computer of your choice
Apple's afraid people would end up buying a $2,000-$2,500 32" iMac instead of a $5,000 Pro Display XDR and $999 Pro Stand.
this. It looks great, the space is there, why not go for that.
People only wants an iMac because it’s a short sighted financial gain, comparing to MacStudio/Mini and ASD. It’s by far better with a separate Mac and a display, even financial on longer term.
No way I'll go back to iMac's. Even though I loved the ones I had, as it was the option at the time.
Before iMac I had separate Mac's and display, as I have no. Apple shift it around now and then.
No way I'll go back to iMac's. Even though I loved the ones I had, as it was the option at the time.
Before iMac I had separate Mac's and display, as I have no. Apple shift it around now and then.
I don't know about "scumbag company". I think they do a lot right on many fronts.
But here I 100% agree. Letting people repurpose old iMacs as displays would keep them out of landfill for quite a while. They love to talk about how much recycled aluminum they use, but something like this would have a big impact. My office has like half a dozen 5K iMacs sitting aroud that are getting too slow to use as work stations but would make goreous displays that are much nicer than the ones we have on our Minis.
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The Pro Display XDR always had mini-LED. It has
The MacBook Pros have had mini-LED displays with many more zones (thousands), and it shows. They are awesome displays, until OLED becomes viable (cost/burn-in). I keep wondering where the real, cheaper, mini-LED Apple monitors are. The Studio Display is not mini-LED/FALD.
A decade from now we might get micro-LED, and perhaps reach endgame, until headsets just laser the display onto our retinas.
Edit: My memory of the Pro Display XDR zones was wrong, it is 576, not 384.
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THIS! My 2017 iMac was legacy-ied, so I struggled in vain to make it work as a display with a new Mac mini. Wonderful 27" 5K monitor, perfect condition. Ended up going with a Mac mini and Studio Display. Now I can just switch out the mini when I need to upgrade. I doubt the current iMac sales make it a priority for Apple to update, but my experience to upgrade is another reason my Apple love continues to erode.
Doubt the 'affordable' part of it though, at least short term. Seen in a longer perspective, for sure.
A mini-LED display has Full Array Local Dimming (FALD) for the backlight—little squares of backlight lit by the mini-LEDs. The squares are larger than pixels, typically they are several pixels square. I'm calling the number of these independently-addressable mini-LEDs "zones". You see it in the specs for FALD monitors.
When the number of FALD zones equals the number of pixels, you have arrived at micro-LED (technically OLED does this, too, but micro-LED will be superior to OLED).
Jeez, even Mini LED keeps getting pushed back year after year, Micro LED seems like a unicorn that's never going to arrive at all.
Sorry, a 4k 32" monitor and Mini are available today, and that's a far better value.
That's been a long time. I mean, we had a 55-60" tv in like 1995.
I'm not sure about the technology definitions here.
I thought that Apple's XDR was just a hack where they basically put a LED panel for the backlighting, behind the colour LCD panel, but that neither are really "miniLED". Apple's doesn't describe it as miniLED (Apple does say the MBPs are miniLED). The XDR also preforms much worse than the MBPs for contrast and blooming. The XDR felt more like a technological dead-end hack.
I have seen the light.
after owning an iMac since 2010… I have realized that a MBA 15” + Studio Display is superior (for me).
looking forward to getting both next year (hopefully).
Dell now sells a 6K 32" monitor for $2,600. After Apple releases a new 8K 34" ProDisplay for $4,999 plus stand/mount, they could easily sell a 6K 32" monitor for $3,300 and find plenty of buyers willing to pay the Apple premium.