I would love an ASD at work, but the finance department would laugh at me if I tried to have a $2000 monitor cleared.
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Kuo: Apple 27-Inch Mini-LED External Display Still Planned, Mass Production Slated for 2024 to 2025
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Its subjective. One persons huge is another persons tiny. And you can't argue who is right.
Depending on what type of work you do, you might have to have a lot of applications open to complete one task. For people like that, having large, especially wide, monitors is not at all a bad idea. The only thing we can really say, is comparatively to other similar displays , the studio display is a bit on the expensive side (there aren't may displays to compare it too though, there is really only the LG with similar size and PPI).
Personally, I think the Dell 6K UltraSharp will fill the void for a lot of people. Unless , you are after high refresh, even though, I don't think people realises that there aren't a lot of large, high PPI monitors with high refresh rates.
If Apple offered a decent 27in. display for the same price (or better a bit less) as an M1 MacBook Air I think it could sell quite well. Presently the ones who won’t complain much about the current Studio Display would be those buying a Mac Studio, 14 or 16in. MacBook Pro or Mac Pro. But for those buying a Mac Mini, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro 13 you’re sol.
If only…
If only…
Candidly, while not impossible, I would be very surprised to see a new 27in. iMac at this point. An iMac 27 could still show up, but the indications are nowhere like the certainty we’re getting new MacBook Airs (15 and 13) and an M3 iMac. A new iMac 27 would be a genuine surprise.
The rumours of a new 27in display could be misconstrued info about a new iMac 27, but I think there would be more certainty than what we’re seeing.
The rumours of a new 27in display could be misconstrued info about a new iMac 27, but I think there would be more certainty than what we’re seeing.
27" was big 10 years ago. Now i use two 43" LG monitors. Maybe a bit extreme for people in a small home or office, but makes working with multiple apps/windows always open a breeze. The sweet spot is probably 34" to 36" for most power users. If Apple were to speed up their development of previously existing products, they could be ahead of the curve, rather than 5 years behind, and generate much higher revenue streams.
iJustine did an unboxing video of the 2019 Mac Pro and XDR display. When she saw that the display attached magnetically to the stand, she was like "OMG! Don't let anyone say you're not worth $1,000!" While I like her, and she probably deserves her 7 million+ YouTube subscribers, she comes off as too disconnected from the average user to understand just how much $1,000 means to them.
Let me plug my PS5 into it and we have a day 1 purchase
All these contradictory rumors…but I guess that’s what this site is about.
I’m hoping Kuo is right and Ross Young is wrong. Guess we won’t know until 2025 at the latest. An Apple-made miniLED monitor would be the thing that would finally get me to purchase a Mac Mini.
I’m hoping Kuo is right and Ross Young is wrong. Guess we won’t know until 2025 at the latest. An Apple-made miniLED monitor would be the thing that would finally get me to purchase a Mac Mini.
I just use a second cheap monitor and and ipad for my extra stuff. I’m not sure I’d want the iMac itself being massive just to fit my menus
Well at one point the base model was $300 off and at another point recently the Nanotexture one was selling for over 400 off
To be fair, Young's actual words were that it wasn't going to get released "for now" and not "in the near future"
"Apple has abandoned its plans to release a 27-inch external monitor with mini-LED backlighting, according to Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants. Young initially expected the monitor to launch in 2022, but a release has yet to materialize.
In a tweet shared with paying subscribers today, Young said that Apple has "killed off" the display "for now" for reasons unclear..."
If such a dispaly is released in 2024 or 2025, Young could still be right since "killed off the display for now" probably means it's been killed off for 2023; He initially expected a 2022 release.
These people carefully word their rumors to cover themselves as much as possible. It's like with Young's 15-inch MacBook Air release rumor... it might be released in April or May or June
"Young said that he doesn't know the "precise launch timing" but assumes that it could happen in "late April/early May."
Young previously suggested that the 15-inch MacBook Air could launch in April, but his estimated launch timeline may be a little too early. At this point, it looks like a spring Apple event is not going to happen....
With WWDC coming in less than two months, it perhaps makes the most sense for Apple to introduce the 15-inch MacBook Air at the Worldwide Developers Keynote on June 5, with a launch following shortly thereafter in June."
Kuo will reissue the note next year with a revised timeline another 2-3 years out. Gotta keep the continuous clickbait wheel turning
This is a bummer on several levels. Wanted the new display (really the only Apple product I was waiting on). Also seems more likely that the M1P/M machines will not support this display. By releasing it in 2025 Apple can make us upgrade the Studio or MBP in order to drive 120hZ. I worried that would be the case, seems more likely.
Agreed. Waiting for the "next one" was always a painful game, and I've played it too many times. So I'm also very glad I pulled the trigger (though with the long delivery times, I was actually speculating about cancelling my order if another one was announced. lol)
And with this long time frame, I'm starting to consider if this is actually the successor to the Studio Display, not the upgrade. It might be wishful thinking, but by 2024 or 2025, 120Hz and miniLED could cost the same as the current panel without reducing Apple's margins. They can still sell a 30 inch model as the insanely priced one and leave the Study Display at its mere ridiculous price point.
To each their own. I found anything bigger than 27" cause me both eye and neck strain as I'm constantly moving my head/eyes around. Even with a 32" I end up pushing the monitor back and then have to decrease the resolution so I can see everything clearly and it serves no benefit to me over the 27".
And Kuo back in March 2020 said Apple was working on a 27" MiniLED display that he believed would go into a refresh of the Intel iMac Pro.
Both Kuo and Young appear to have their strongest sources in the display supply chain, which is why both tend to support each other's claims in general, if not in specific timelines. And in addition to those two, Filipe Espósito of 9to5Mac reported Apple was developing a 32" 7K and 25" 5K display, both with MiniLED and ProMotion (Filipe Espósito correctly leaked what would launch as the Apple Studio Display in 2019) and Mark Gurman backed-up Filipe's report of new 32" and 27" ProMotion LED displays.
So that is a fair bit of smoke from at least three people with good tracks records leaking display information saying that a 27" MiniLED display is in development at Apple/LG along with a 32" MiniLED display. I am in agreement with Jason Snell that both models are being developed as Pro Display XDRs, which would allow the 27" to slot in above the Apple Studio Display and make the refresh of the 32" model more compelling as an upgrade/replacement.
As to why the delay, the only way you will get ProMotion at 10-bit color at 7K/6K/5K is with HDMI 2.1 or ThunderBolt 5. Apple is now starting to put HDMI 2.1 in Macs, but as they like a single-cable solution, I would be surprised if these new models have an HDMI input. Instead, I expect them to use TB5 and while that is supposed to arrive this year, the earliest I would expect to see it would be the M3 Pro/Max/Ultra which would be late 2023 at the earliest and likely more 1H 2024, considering. And I am not sure you can add a TB5 PCIe card to an Apple Silicon Mac Pro (assuming the ASi Mac Pro actually has PCIe slots), but that could drive it via HDMI 2.1 and Apple is not too worried about hanging lots of cables off a Mac Pro.
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*1 year from now* Kuo: the 27” Mini LED panel appears to have been cancelled.
(It then comes out a month later.)
(It then comes out a month later.)
Hah. I finally upgraded my crappy 2005-era HP Compaq monitor at work to a $150 Dell. I think if I want something better I'll have to bring it from home.