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Apple Is Reportedly Working on a Mac Monitor That Becomes a Smart Home Display When Idle

sherwinzadeh said:
OLED has the ability to power only the pixels that are on while LCDs need a power hungry backlight to always be on. While, yes, it's always plugged in, I would think that having he display on all the time would (1) be power costly and (2) could cause the screen to burn out more quickly.
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good thing proximity sensors have been invented already.
 
So in other words, Apple is developing an interactive screensaver but they will require you to buy a completely brand new display for it to work.
 
This is not news, Gurman reported the new HomePod with a touch screen last year, which is similar to the article described. I guess is a 21.5 inches screen.

The ASD 2nd and new XDR will be ready in 2024 winter with the M3 ultra MacStudio and MacPro. It is no surprise.
 
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mystery hill said:
Most apps on the Mac App Store were designed for multi-touch, and Sonoma brings widgets from iPhone to the desktop. That’s a lot of touch-first UI on macOS…
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They won't be selling a multi-touch display for Mac as long as macOS isn't itself fully multi-touch-enabled, which is still quite a way off, assuming Apple is even aiming for that.
 
3Gmatt said:
Just give me that sweet, sweet ProMotion HDR.
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5K at 120 Hz with HDR requires more bandwidth than most current connection standards support, so it’s not worthwhile for panel manufacturers. You’d need a machine with DisplayPort 2.0 or HDMI 2.1 to handle the bandwidth, so it would be limited to just the most recent generations of M2 Pro and higher Mac. They’ll come out eventually but it will likely be a few more years before the technology is ready for prime time (and they will be expensive when they do launch).
 
While I agree with many comments that touch would be better, I don't think it's a necessity. I have things like doorbell cam, WiFi enabled thermostat, and a tesla solar array and power wall, all of which I could see having at-a-glance visual convenience being a boon, especially if the monitor is located in a central location where I find myself frequently.

This is already what we use our google display for, to a lesser extent. Yes, it is a touch display, but we hardly ever tinker with it, and when we do, it's usually streaming from a phone or using voice to control.
 
klasma said:
With your iPhone and/or voice and a few buttons. Similar to the HomePod.
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Then what's the point of the smart home display? just use your phone instead.

The idea is to be able to interact with it when you're standing in front of it. As you know Siri ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.
 
sherwinzadeh said:
OLED has the ability to power only the pixels that are on while LCDs need a power hungry backlight to always be on. While, yes, it's always plugged in, I would think that having he display on all the time would (1) be power costly and (2) could cause the screen to burn out more quickly.
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Burn-in pretty much never happens. If by power costly you mean a few cents a month… then sure.
 
AppleTO said:
That’s a good question. That would mean future displays may have to have touch capabilities, but would that work with macOS also?
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They could make it such that touch input is only available in applications designed for it, like in full screen mode with large touch elements with no other macOS UI elements visible.

A Smart home display mode would be one of those applications, whether running in low power mode on an iMac style all in one, or running on the internal processor of the display while the Mac is off or sleeping.
 
The only thing preventing me from buying a current Studio Display is that the MBP display looks better to my eyes.
 
This reminds me of a novel from the middle of the last century, with "screens" in the room that were "always on" even when you weren't looking at them...
 
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gk_brown said:
or kitchen, which is another place a smart display might be useful
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indeed - had a 2nd Gen iPad Pro 12.9 wall mounted in the kitchen. But Apple never has supported that in any reasonable way - and with the new HomeKit Architecture an iPad is not even capable to be a "home central".

Was using ethernet + continuous charging which was unreliable and killed the batterie.
Better to wall-mount an iPad where the batterie is already toast instead of using a new one :).
 
I don't understand the fascination with this as a touch screen, in some comments here. Who wants a touch screen TV/large monitor? As an aside, Gurman does not describe this as a touch screen monitor (and we all take Gurman's info with a big grain of salt, but it is the information this whole thread is based on).
 
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MacRumors said:
new external monitor for Macs that also functions as a kind of smart home display while not in use,
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really??? how many have their monitors in a place where that would make sense? like in the kitchen or living room? oh, yea, just move the monitor from the office into the living room after work ... I think not
 
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