Anyone know how the display quality on this stacks up to LG's ultra-fine 5k display?
Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
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Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
#182Would be nice to have >5K resolutions to have more pixel density. Alas, macOS doesn't support any native scaling other than 100% and 200%. So if they did release e.g. a 27" 8K monitor, the text would either be too small, or they'd have to use bitmap scaling to make it bigger in which case there'd be no advantage of having an 8K monitor. (EDIT: To clarify, all other scaling factors are done by rendering at either 100%…
> (a) adopt Windows' approach of allowing any arbitrary scale Apple is all about controlling and curating the user experience. They would much rather force you into some lane than allow you to go wild configuration wise.
is allowing a 150% option considered "going wild"?
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#183Can anyone help me understand how I'd connect this to a PC? Would I need a GPU with Thunderbolt 4 or does the motherboard need Thunderbolt 4 and the PC somehow magically utilises the GPU via that motherboard display anyway?
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#184I like this announcement, because it means that there's a manufacturing line for proper HiDPI [1] displays running in some LG factory somewhere that third party manufactures like LG/Dell/Iiyama can hopefully use to give us some fresh good-looking 27" 5K desktop monitors. It boggles my mind how little attention very high pixel density displays have been getting from PC display manufacturers. I would also be first in l…
The PC market seems to be driven by the gamers and the word on the gamers street is that it's all about latency. I actually like extra wide displays. There are few interesting options like that but the rest seems to be dominated by low color, low resolution, low latency stuff.
> it's all about latency.
Not just latency, but framerate too.
I wanted to build a gaming PC that would double as a Windows dev machine, so I wanted more pixels than 1080p.
Even with my 3090, I can only reasonably do 1440p @ 240Hz, and even then I lose some frames on Fortnite with graphics settings turned down. 4k was out. Thankfully Alienware makes a very nice 1440p 240Hz monitor.
Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
#185Sold. Been waiting for this for years. Edit: to clarify I will lurk and wait until it is £200 off on Amazon one day because I don’t need it immediately.
just find somebody that works with apple and use their 25% or 15% off
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (a) adopt Windows' approach of allowing any arbitrary scale Apple is all about controlling and curating the user experience. They would much rather force you into some lane than allow you to go wild configuration wise.
is allowing a 150% option considered "going wild"?
Personally, no, but the GP did say "allowing any arbitrary scale" and that's what I was referring to. Why Apple does not allow 150% is beyond me because it is quite reasonable. But I can understand why they don't allow users to enter a value like 168%.
Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
#188Webcam and sound aside, the display specs seems very similar to the LG Ultrafine 5k released all the way back in 2017 for $1299: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HMUB2LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k... The Studio Display is an additional $300.
Based on the reviews of the LG Ultrafine that extra $300 really are worth. Alone for not having a stand as shaky as the Ultrafine one.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your suggestion was tried for years and failed every time because it doesn’t work. HiDPI shipped because it was 2x or nothing. (Later there was 3x.) The reason Windows developers still think it might work is they have no taste and don’t care about localized UI, pixel cracks, or blurry bitmap controls.
nah, hidpi on Windows is fine if you know what you're doing as an application developer. it's those who haven't bothered to make the changes recommended or required that make windows hidpi support look worse than it is in single-monitor setups. multiple monitors on Windows with varying dpi scales is not great though, and probably can't be until some backwards compatibility promises are broken or expired.
In the latest Windows 11 there are a bunch of native OS dialog which are not high-dpi aware and look pixelated on my 4K monitor.
If even Microsoft can’t be bothered, what do you expect from app developers?!
Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
#190Awesome to see them finally putting out almost consumer friendly pricing displays. Few things I'm disappointed about though: - 60hz. For this price point I'd expect higher. - Thunderbolt 3. Interesting that they didn't bump to 4, given the Mac Studio is Thunderbolt 4. This means you wont be able to daisy chain the displays. - Lack of size options. Would love to see more variety here. After moving to an ultrawide form…
The technology to do 5K @ 120hz just doesn't exist yet. 5K @ 60Hz is already maxing out Thunderbolt 4.
DisplayPort 1.2 (or newer) and HDMI 2.1 both support 5K at 120Hz when using DSC.