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2019-07-10, 13:55

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Originally Posted by kscherer View Post
A $700 4k USB-C display is sorely needed.
Ehhhhhh.

The ATP folks (well, except for Casey) discuss displays occasionally, and seem content to spend $1,500 on a 5K display.

Sometimes I wonder what planet they're on.

We spend about $120 on a 24-inch display at work. That won't be 4K, though. $400, maybe $500 would be OK for that. (Right now, Amazon is offering one discounted at $249. Seriously.)

The big problem with those displays for Mac users is that they don't hit the right sweet spot for 2x resolution, but surely solving that isn't worth $700, or $1,500, or $6,000. I'm sorry, it's just not.

Now, Apple clearly isn't interested in the sub-$1k monitor market (nor in the sub-$5,200 market, apparently*), but surely at some point, it's feasible to take a silly 4K @ 21" or 5K @ 27" panel and put it in a reasonably priced monitor? The Retina iMacs have been around for almost half a decade. Panel costs have to have gone down since then.

*) We don't really know this yet for a fact. That they showed off this high-end thing doesn't really preclude them from also showing something lower end when the Mac Pro gets closer to shipping.
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