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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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No 120hz listed in the tech specs, that’s gonna be jarring for people with a M1 macbook pro.

I hardly notice when switching between my M1Pro monitor and larger 27" monitor. Sure my monitor do support 144Hz, but im running it at 60Hz... because docking station

I disagree completely. My main monitor is at 144hz, and it's very jarring to switch to my (slightly older) MBP running at 60hz. Not having high refresh rate means this new monitor won't ever be on my short list.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

#93
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Any mentions of the refresh rate? I've been waiting for a 4K/5K display that supports 120 Hz to pair nicely with my 2021 MBP, but it looks like the only available options so far are funky gaming displays: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors-mac/

60hz, there isn't enough port bandwidth in TB4 to handle 5K @ 120hz. Anything coming close to being capable enough is years away still.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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I hate this trend in ‘ultra modern’ websites with the infinite scroll pulling you through some sort of animation. The website is near unusable as a result.

I might be ignorant here, but what trend? Scrolljacking was popular for about 5 minutes back around 2010 during the HTML5 craze before people realized how awful a UX it is. The only place I still see it being used regularly is Apple sites. Have you seen this pattern used elsewhere?

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

#95
$1599 isn't quite as bad as I expected, actually.

I've still got my old 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display (a puny 2560 by 1440 pixels), which i use daily. (The convenience of built-in video/mic/USB hub, with one cable, is indispensible and more important to me than resolution, and it's been really unclear to me what else could do that with a macbook). But might be ready to upgrade to this guy.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

#96

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%…

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Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

#98
Awesome 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 format, I can't see myself moving back to standard format monitors from a productivity standpoint.

Overall though excited for this and keen to see how it'll evolve. It'll be a miss for me this cycle but keen to see their future releases of their monitor line.

Re: Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display

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post #38

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 does so by rendering at 200% then downscaling the resulting texture which is absolutely horrendous for both performance and looks
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