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Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Post by radicaldreamer »

DCKing wrote: post #26

I 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…

They've had the iMac line using these displays forever and it hasn't filtered down to other display makers. Only LG via the ultrafine line has used these densities (also Windows and Linux support is lacking or janky)

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Post by jdlshore »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #30

I'm reading this on a 27" 5K imac from 2014. It's a nice screen. But it's eight years old now. So, what's new?

Speaking as someone who's in the market for a new display, I haven't been able to find a quality 27" 5K screen. LG has one, but it gets poor reviews. Everybody else is selling 4Ks, which is lower effective resolution than what I'm using now (a 23" 1920x1200 Apple Cinema display). So this is definitely appealing to me.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Post by jimbob45 »

black_puppydog wrote: post #22

I realize that as a staunch Linux user I'm not in their target demographic, but... wow that website is slightly motion sickness inducing. Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux? I use a mouse with an actual wheel, maybe they don't optimize for that kind of legacy device...? Edit: it's also just so hard to scroll exactly to the points where the information is presented. I just mostly end up at…

If you middle-click and scroll down smoothly, it's a better experience (provided you nail the right speed). However, there's a bunch of text you miss doing it that way.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Post by rchaud »

dagmx wrote: post #60
rchaud wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's laggy on Firefox in in a 2014 MBP as well. I won't blame Apple, this is just the state of web animation with CSS3 and Lottie. Weird to think that Flash handled this kind of animation seamlessly on browsers 15 years ago.

Flash then wasn't dealing with as high resolution content though

We barely had dual-core processors back then. It's fair to assume that Flash's capabilities would have improved with hardware advances.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Post by ifaxmycodetok8s »

black_puppydog wrote: post #22

I realize that as a staunch Linux user I'm not in their target demographic, but... wow that website is slightly motion sickness inducing. Is it as bad to scroll through this on a mac as it is on linux? I use a mouse with an actual wheel, maybe they don't optimize for that kind of legacy device...? Edit: it's also just so hard to scroll exactly to the points where the information is presented. I just mostly end up at…

only seems to look or work "good" when you just scroll by holding down the arrow keys

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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Post by mrkstu »

copperx wrote: post #38
adrianmsmith wrote: post #28

Would 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%…

I'm confused by your post. macOS definitely supports fractional scaling since 2012.

It's there but it's noticeably slower/buggier.
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