First look: LG UltraFine 5K Display
Apple this week started deliveries of LG's hotly anticipated UltraFine 5K Display, a monitor developed to complement Apple's new all-Thunderbolt 3 MacBook Pro lineup. AppleInsider goes hands-on with the device in this first look video.
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Concerned about 'legacy' USB ports on back- 5 MBPS speed so not true USB 3.1 as we know it now.
Do we have a 2013 Macpro?: Monitor will only run 4K in Thunderbolt 2 config I believe. That's a slight to technology.
Glossy glossy glossy- need to ratchet that down some IMHO.
Other than that, looks good but price point makes me look elsewhere esp. if I want a 32" or larger.
Again, thank you for a nice review.
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2) Would AppleIsDying have parroted your comment if you hadn't started the ball rolling?
Please explain Mr Troll how it can make you eggs in the morning? I like mine 'easy over'.
The 5K monitor here is IMHO a niche product. I use a Dell 4K Monitor on my MBP and once I setup the profiles it is fantasting for Photoshop.
5K would be nice though because my new D500 can shoot 4K Movies.
Yes, the screen is beautiful but the display design is so un-Apple. It looks just like our Dell monitors at work, blah!
AppleIsDying said:
Basically a Dell monitor with all of nice on device controls and extremely handy legacy connectivity options ripped out. My widescreen 32" LG thunderbolt monitor has one cable and no-dongle-required legacy Ethernet, USB 2/3, DisplayPort, HDMI, can split screen literally any two computers on earth, makes me eggs in the morning and cost me $400 less a year ago. This is basically Apple saying "buy one of our underwhelming 2016 MacBooks and shut up"
Could you guys post pics of your monitors?
And SiSa as you stated,
You said:
Hey Max, unfortunately I do not agree on certain aspects, and suggest a second thought about: - ugly plastic frame/design that does not fit to any premium Apple product - and the thicker upper frame looks particularly ugly and distracting to me…
For the life of me, I have been in the graphic/multimedia business for years and I still can't define beauty or ugly by simply looking at a picture, especially over the internet.
WRT #2, it's unfair to think that because bloggerblog expressed their frustrations that they're personally responsible for the ramblings of a troll.
2) It's not unfair to question whether pointless bitching about a null to minimal consideration about a product one is not required to buy can lead to others jumping onboard with cynical commentary. Note that I asked a question, where as you have stated that AppleIsDying is troll instead of just questioning whether he's a troll. Are you gauging his trollishness based on his name, it being a first, and/or his comment? If the comment is involved, why wouldn't this apply to anyone else with a similar outlook?
I can understand LG wanting to make a monitor that's inline with LG products, but they don't seem concerned that they look like everybody else's monitors, externally unchanged since the late 90's.
The fact that On/Off and Brightness are controlled from the MacBook is a big plus. One of my Macs is connected to a big Dell and I have to adjust the brightness daily depending on the time of day. I don't have the control over ambient light that I'd like. Dell's button controls for the OSD are a pain to deal with. The answer for me may just be to get a 5K iMac.
Are you kidding me? You don't need to "define beauty or ugly" to compare the aesthetics of LG's chunky black base and plastic bezel (awkwardly upside-down-looking because of the thicker top) with Apple's elegant aluminum and glass designs? Do you need to see each in person to consider how each monitor would look next to an aluminum Apple laptop (hint: one will uses the same high quality materials and refined industrial design language and the other does not). I rue the day my Apple Thunderbolt display (in all its non-retina glory) needs to be replaced. Porche vs Pinto.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickshade/id931571202?mt=12
Unfortunately it does not lower power consumption as it uses a filter vs backlight adjustment...
The build quality, judging by the video, looks functional, but not elegantly solid, like if Apple would have made it. Good stuff though.
I have a few WD external hard drives sitting on my computer table. I don't have a problem with them being glossy plastic instead of milled aluminium, but that's just me.
I guess some people are pissed with the housing. But the moment you turn the monitor on, you see macOS in gorgeous 5K and no one is looking at the housing anymore.
Plastic is certainly easier to mount & lighter to move around, and there may be some environmental embodied energy benefits, and even the 5K design form seems better than most (pivot lack notwithstanding) plastic options, yet is Apple industrial design consistency + policy changing, and has this always been considered a hallmark of Apple's user experience...?
Will we next get matching plastic iMacs + black bezels this year ? Does anyone else remember the positive reviews of the redesigned all aluminum 2009 iMacs ?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/imac-aluminum-faq/differences-between-imac-aluminum-late-2009-early-2009-models.html
There is a classic interview with Steve Jobs where as I recall he suggests 'the problem with microsoft is they just have no class'...
With the imminent Surface Studio, and Windows 10 GUI, is this too starting to change ?