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LG UltraFine 5K - Owners Thread
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For me, i had the 13 " MacBook Pro tb i7 16 go ram, I bought the 4k 21" display. Everything run relatively without lag.
A little less reactive (but very little and maybe it's me). But for me the 21" display was too small, after that I want to buy the 5k (and bring back the 4k).
But when I read on this forum that people have little problem with the 13"+ the 5k for web design I decided to go for 15".
Today I bring back the 13" and took the 15", I don't have the 5k display right know but I miss the little footprint of the 13 " and it's true everything is very smooth and quicker. But I have little light leakage ....
I'm tired with this macbook
823 x 340
My impressions as a 5K owner:
1. Less ugly than the pictures. Although the forehead and the off-center camera are poor designs. Clearly they used an off-the-shelf camera and built the bevel around it.
2. On a 13" touch bar MBP, using Mission Control and command-tab between apps is really jittery. Interface will hang for a few seconds.
3. I use in clam-shell mode. OS X crashes every couple of days.
4. Screen is gorgeous. Single power cable is great.
Hoping Apple can bug fix the crashes and jaggy interface problems—assuming they still care about OS X.
1. Less ugly than the pictures. Although the forehead and the off-center camera are poor designs. Clearly they used an off-the-shelf camera and built the bevel around it.
2. On a 13" touch bar MBP, using Mission Control and command-tab between apps is really jittery. Interface will hang for a few seconds.
3. I use in clam-shell mode. OS X crashes every couple of days.
4. Screen is gorgeous. Single power cable is great.
Hoping Apple can bug fix the crashes and jaggy interface problems—assuming they still care about OS X.
is anyone running a 15" with dual 5k monitors ?? what is the performance like ? are you running the Mac in clamshell mode ?? does the fan come on just surfing and doing email ?? have you tried playing a game ? Etc .. I plan on running dual monitors with mine but unsure if I'm going to do a 5k monitor or run two 4k 32" ones .. never had a setup like this before so I am wondering how it performs and if the laptop fan gets super loud.
My Display is preparing for shipment... now I just need my MacBook. Strangely my IT Dept ordered my BTO 15" 1TB, 460 MacBook back in early Dec and it looks like this display is going to beat it to my desk.
If I get it before the MacBook is there any way I can test backlight and dead pixels using another Mac like my 2013 Mac Pro?
If I get it before the MacBook is there any way I can test backlight and dead pixels using another Mac like my 2013 Mac Pro?
I believe you can connect it to the Mac Pro with some adapters .. but it will run at 4k I believe
Does anyone know if it will upscale 4K to use all pixels or does it run 4K with black borders?
You just chat with support or call them and request a later return (because of your late screen shipment)... they will help you out.
That's really worrysome. Have you used the extended display mode? Same issue?
This seems like a 50/50 experience so far.
My experience with a 13" and the 5k is if you have Mirror mode on, performance is bad, especially Launchpad animation. Using extended desktop or clamshell with mirror display off was much better performance.
I've exchanged the 13" for a 15" with the 460 GPU, everything runs great. It made a big difference in Parallels, Win 10 now runs very smooth with no lag when resizing windows. The largest difference with the 460 + 5k, and even without the monitor is I can now play 4k videos smoothly, on the 13" they'd stutter once in a while.
If you have a 13" + 5k monitor, you disabled mirrored mode and find regular desktop performance like Launchpad animations are still bad then something is wrong. Try another cable and power, easy enough to return if it doesn't help. Don't forget to only use the left side ports on the 13" for video.
I've been testing various Youtube videos since someone mentioned Safari doesn't play some high res videos and they were right. This video has a 4k 60P option in Chrome and looks stunning on the laptop & monitor, but in Safari the highest res option I get is 1080p. Strange.
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I'd love to know whether it's Youtube or Safari - I get the feeling google wants us to use chrome!
I came across this page. This is from 2015 so I'd hope Safari has caught up by now. I only recently started using it and like the clean look, native gesture support, OSX integration and supposed lower energy footprint, but missing youtube res options is going to make me use Chrome more since there's more and more 4k videos now and we didn't get 5k monitors to look at 1080 content
https://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/
*update*
I activated the developer panel in Safari and set it to emulate Chrome, max option for that video stayed at 1080 so it's not as simple as Google checking for browser to decide what options to offer.
There are 4k videos on Youtube that do give 4k option in Safari so no idea why the inconsistency.
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Have had the 5K display now for just over a week. I'm using it with a new 15" MBP TB as an external monitor with the clamshell closed. Seems nice enough but I do have a couple of questions.
First is the screen resolution. The advertising states 5120x2880 resolution but nowhere can I find a setting to achieve such a resolution. I'm not arguing the merits of whether actually wants their display set to 5120x2880, just that I don't see where it's actually available. The highest setting I can find is 3200x1800. The Apple support page also lists the available resolution as 5120x2880 @ 60Hz. I called Apple support and logged a case about this a week ago... no response as of yet.
Additionally, I don't see anywhere that 60Hz is actually being used. Where does one find such a setting?
Even though page 9 of the owner's manual shows a diagram with an ambient light sensor, there is no auto-brightness available in the display settings. This is particularly annoying, as I have a window right next to my desk. If I manually adjust during the day, then come back in the wee hours of the morning, I get dazzled by the over-bright screen. For the $$$ spent, this should have been available.
First is the screen resolution. The advertising states 5120x2880 resolution but nowhere can I find a setting to achieve such a resolution. I'm not arguing the merits of whether actually wants their display set to 5120x2880, just that I don't see where it's actually available. The highest setting I can find is 3200x1800. The Apple support page also lists the available resolution as 5120x2880 @ 60Hz. I called Apple support and logged a case about this a week ago... no response as of yet.
Additionally, I don't see anywhere that 60Hz is actually being used. Where does one find such a setting?
Even though page 9 of the owner's manual shows a diagram with an ambient light sensor, there is no auto-brightness available in the display settings. This is particularly annoying, as I have a window right next to my desk. If I manually adjust during the day, then come back in the wee hours of the morning, I get dazzled by the over-bright screen. For the $$$ spent, this should have been available.
Option click 'scaled' to see full list of resolutions in display options.
Thanks!!
Pretty funny that the Apple support (1st & 2nd level support) didn't know this. 5120x2880 is now available (damn those icons are small).
I don't want to sound patronising but I thought I would make sure you know that even if you use a lower resolution in Display Preferences, it is just a "looks like" resolution and all 5120x2880 pixels are still actually being rendered and used? I don't want you to think that by using the default setting you are only getting a 1440p rather than a 2880p image, because you're not!
As to the 60Hz - macOS is very inconsistent as to which displays it shows the refresh rate for in System Information, however it may display it under the Graphics/Displays section there. Though if you've got it set up conventionally you can be sure that it is running at 60Hz.
You're right about this, I think it's totally unacceptable that the ALS still isn't supported and yet is listed as a feature of the product!
also if you want to verify the hz, just google a test and it will show you if you're running at 60 or 30 or whichever.
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sold my TBD for $600 after having it for 4 yrs.
Great! I sold the ACD for 500€.
How was your first impression? I was pretty happy with the ACD but I guess now was the right time to sell it. I'm a bit concerned about stability. I've seen some reviews and looks like it's moving quite a bit compared to the Thunderbolt Display design.
It runs at 4K on a Mac Pro. I saw one at the Carlsbad Apple store. They had another monitor connected to a Mac Mini and it looked like ass. Why they didn't connect it to a laptop that can actually use it is beyond me. Apple seems to have lost the attention to detail they once had which is very concerning because that affects so many things. Once I saw the stores were getting them in I canceled my online order and picked one up at the Fashion Valley store in San Diego.
I have been running it for about 30 minutes. Stunning screen. It was a very un-Apple experience opening it up but the screen is just so great. I'm not as concerned about looks as some people but LG could have expended a little bit of effort making it look better and matching Apple gear and Apple should have required them to do that.
By the way the power button on my 12.9 iPad Pro has been sticking and I made a Genius bar appointment and they swapped it out for a brand new one in 5 minutes so at least they still have good support. Since their revenues are down I wonder if they will start cutting back on support.
I installed the LG app for firmware updates etc. LG's web page for the monitor isn't very good. You click support and it goes to another page which you have to hunt down this monitor from. Why doesn't support go straight to a support page for this monitor? Ugh. LG.
I'm meandering I realize but I just got the monitor setup and am looking it over. Even with my bitching I haven't been this excited about a monitor since getting the original 27 inch Thunderbolt display.
Did you find any firmware updates? Doesn't look like anything has been released but as you said, it's not entirely clear.