There's an Indian retailer (I think) listing its pre-release price at ₹1,15,999 which converts to US $1400. Price could be inflated for that market though...
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Fellow Viewfinity S9 waiters, worried about matte finish?
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Always remember that with Samsung, the recommended price is only indicative and there will be sales and promos that lower the street price rapidly.
For example, here in Australia you can 15-30% off their stuff just by emailing their loyalty program and telling them you’ve got another Samsung device.
There’ll be plenty of sales too.
For example, here in Australia you can 15-30% off their stuff just by emailing their loyalty program and telling them you’ve got another Samsung device.
There’ll be plenty of sales too.
I wish there was a dumb option without all of the TV bells & whistles. That's all a waste of money as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure that could knock a couple of hundred off the price.
Remember that the Apple Studio Display, despite not giving us any "TV bells & whistles", is a full computer internally as well. Apple just didn't do the software to support those use cases.
So one side gives us features that not everyone needs, and the other gives us overspec'd hardware without software to utilize it... which is better? 🤷♂️ I would lean toward Samsung on that one.
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I had a look at that link yesterday, and it was very interesting - a lot of good views, specs, etc. No price, but it was pretty cool. Today, it's gone... Looks like someone jumped the gun somewhere posting it!Compare All Monitors for business | Samsung Business Australia
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I suspect the component cost of this was relatively minimal. But the "TV bells & whistles" are exactly why some of us are interested. I have an Apple Studio Display which looks amazing, but I use it in a home office where I sometimes want to watch TV without the computer connected.
A retina display with decent color accuracy that accepts more than one input is why I'm interested. I'd prefer no on display OS to get hacked, serving malware, or acting as spyware.
I emailed Samsung Australia and they said July launch
Not yet. The official spec sheet just said "Max 1B Colors".
Videos including the matte display compared to ASD on my other post here:
EDIT: @joe.peeravas the brightness of menu text on the matte display makes me concerned. Is this a brightness/calibration issue?
EDIT: @joe.peeravas the brightness of menu text on the matte display makes me concerned. Is this a brightness/calibration issue?
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The gentleman who did that review is answering questions on this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/samsung-viewfinity-s9-official-details-from-samsung.2393056/
He noted that the price (in Thailand) is 45% less than an Apple Studio Display with Nano-Texture Glass and the optional stand. So I would expect that if the pricing is similar in the US, we're looking at around $1300-1400 MSRP for the S9.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/samsung-viewfinity-s9-official-details-from-samsung.2393056/
He noted that the price (in Thailand) is 45% less than an Apple Studio Display with Nano-Texture Glass and the optional stand. So I would expect that if the pricing is similar in the US, we're looking at around $1300-1400 MSRP for the S9.
Judging by his videos, it's a bit of a bloodbath in terms of contrast and sharpness due to that matte coating. A shame, it looked so good on paper
Found a German website on film & photography tech news that states the S9’s availability for “August” and its price as 1,729 EUR. No source on this given, though. We’ll see…
Official German price for Studio Display being 1749€, that sounds more than a bit steep. Granted, you get better adjustability with S9 for the price, but the overall build quality of the Apple seems way better and undoubtedly also the integration with a Mac.
Agree, definitely prefer the Studio display over this worse matte finish especially when the savings are very little even if you need to buy an additional stand for the Studio display. I just don't understand what the point is of these things, same thing happened with the 6k Dell that was supposed to be a XDR replacement. Worse picture quality, worse specs, very little savings, and years late. Well in this case just one year late but still. And the Studio display is now available on sale sometimes too from retailers.