Some users have limited desk space. I know I do. My Studio Display is mounted on a corner desk and it's a tight fit.
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Samsung's ViewFinity S9 5K Display Launches in the U.S.
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Wow. I never believed the predictions that this thing would be $1K but to come in at the full fare price of the ASD is incredible. Why would any Mac user but this?
No way this will come close to the studio display. the Studio Display is amazing.
Not everyone wants that size of display? I have a 27" and it's borderline too big for me.
I'd quit using a monitor and go back to laptop screen only if 32" was the smallest option.
His eyes are probably further apart than most peoples are.
Really I had a 32" Dell and the thing just gave me a damn neck ache. The ASD is perfect for me and I love it.
Yes! I still have my ACD 30". I love it and want to upgrade and the Studio Display is just too small. I want the XDR badly, but can't justify $7k (stand/nano) even as a pro. Just too much. That price needs to be cut in half.
That's because you are an outlier of the real market, irrelevant to it. Don't go imposing your preferences on everyone else.
Same here with 32" 4K. I think those who are going for 27" mostly dual screens. Fitting two 32" maybe not enough desk room.
Wow, I am so glad I saw this post. Can finally controle volume on my LG
So Apple should take a loss on the XDR? Excuse me but you have no idea what the build cost of that product is.
the credit is not mine, but of another user whose name I don't remember who had reported the app in another topic.
The version on the App Store is lite, the version on github is complete and allows complete control.
Sure, as long as you have enough room for a desk that offers enough depth to keep things comfortable/ergonomic.
I could swing two 27-inch displays, but my desk would be utterly cluttered (it already sort of is with just one 27-inch and things lying around that I could reorganise). One 32-inch monitor tho, while nice, wouldn't work so well.
Good lord, what's the ppi on that 55" display? I prefer to not spend my days looking up close at a gigantic pixel grid, thanks.
edit: I got morbidly curious and figured it out. An average 55" display is ~48" wide, and a 4K resolution gives you 4096 pixels. So... dividing that out, you get about 85 ppi 😱
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This is samsung. wait few weeks - 50% price.
HDR 5K@120hz (57 Gbit/s) is totally possible with DP 2.0(2.1) allowing 80 gbit/s is it not?
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Plenty of fish in the sea.
I chose Dell 40" 5K2K Ultra-wide, which is just about exactly the same height (screen) as iMac 27" but MUCH wider. I can't believe how useful the added screen R.E. is in day-to-day tasks. There's no way to go back to nearly square 27" or 3X" screens. It costs about the same as an ASD with a stand option, though price moves around up & down and can get especially good at third party retailers or as a refurb.
Yes, it doesn't have an Apple logo on it... but it is 5K and it comes with many other benefits. And there's Apple stickers if we really must have ONE brand's logo on our monitor.
It works great with Silicon Mac and since it has multiple inputs, it also functions as the monitor for "old fashioned bootcamp" (PC) too with no wire changes. It has a loaded built-in hub and can even split screen so both platforms can be on screen at the same time (like Parallels minus the annual fee and full compatibility with everything Windows instead of just Windows for ARM).
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I doubt at half of the price the current XDR would be a loss. It's a 4-year-old tech. smh
I'll check that one out. What is a turnoff for me is all the plastic cheap-looking enclosures that Dell usually puts out. What I love about Apple displays is the built quality. My 18-year-old ACD still solid.Plenty of fish in the sea.
I chose Dell 40" 5K2K Ultra-wide, which is just about exactly the same height (screen) as iMac 27" but MUCH wider. I can't believe how useful the added screen R.E. is in day-to-day tasks. There's no way to go back to nearly square 27" or 3X" screens. It costs about the same as an ASD with a stand option, though price moves around up & down and can get especially good at third party retailers or as a refurb.
Yes, it doesn't have an Apple logo on it... but it is 5K and it comes with many other benefits. And there's Apple stickers if we really need to seen ONE brand's logo on our monitor.
It works great with Silicon Mac and since it has multiple inputs, it also functions as the monitor for "old fashioned bootcamp" (PC) too with no wire changes. It has a loaded built-in hub and can even split screen so both platforms can be on screen at the same time (like Parallels minus the annual fee and full compatibility with everything Windows instead of just Windows for ARM).
Yes. I have the 32” S8 version of their monitor along with several other monitors including Apple Studio Display 5K and 6K XDR Display. Apple definitely seems nicer due to the fact the design is better. As far as screen quality, Samsung is probably inside the Apple displays. I think the problem is Apple made their scaling work in an odd way, which doesn’t allow any size monitor to look great. I have to use a PC on one screen and the one that looks best with the PC connected is the Samsung 4K. The others look far better with Mac Studios connected.
In general, I don’t understand why Samsung and LG don’t use aluminum to house their expensive displays and TVs. Aluminum isn’t that expensive like people think. It’s rather inexpensive. I suppose until Apple switches to Liquid Metal or carbon fiber or something exotic, Samsung and LG won’t copy them. If Apple gets the displays from Samsung and LG, there’s no way Samsung and LG couldn’t copy Apple so it baffles me. As all product ideas in that part of the world are stolen from companies like Apple. Shocking they haven’t gone to something other than plastic even in their most expensive TVs and displays.
Great...2 55" monitors on my desk! Especially for photography :-(
I'll take the 27" any time.
HobeSoundDarryl
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It is plastic and I don't even notice myself. The part that I look at almost 100% of the time is the screen: 40 inch ultra-wide goodness. There is a thin bezel and a Dell brand on the bottom bezel but I don't notice those either.
Your post includes a "want" of cheaper cost than Apple's bigger monitor. This- plastic & all- does that very well: 40 inches widescreen at the 27" price. Anyone wanting a much lower price should shop around. Not everyone demands Apple's sky high margin (which is nearly the "half the price" you were wishing for in the prior post).
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So for this price it must be OLED with DolbyVision, HDR, HDR10+ and a 4k camera right? I miss the 90s and early 2000s when there was actually rapid technological progress with regular price cuts. Instead we get a decade of Apple not shipping a single computer with enough stock RAM or storage at ever incresing prices.
I'm running a pair of Huawei Mateviews on a Mac Studio and it's a bit fragile about startup/shutdown/sleep, but not to a problematic extent. However, the Studio draws so little power that I don't bother with sleep much.
Main problem is that I unplug everything at night and the displays take a surprisingly long time to fully start up from cold (I guess they're uploading my movements for the last 12 hours to Beijing
) - if I power on the Mac too soon it tends to fail to detect one of the displays.