Mike Wuerthele

rob53 said:

Hopefully you don't delete my comment because it references a non-AI website but I'm trying to demonstrate that LG doesn't have a 27" 5K monitor anymore:

Commercial products
https://www.lg.com/us/business/desktop-monitors/lg-27md5klb-b ;
LG Ultrawide, https://www.lg.com/us/business/desktop-monitors/lg-34BK95U-W

Consumer products
https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27md5kl-b-5k-uhd-led-monitor Out of Stock, $1300

It's very difficult to search for a 5K monitor on LG's website because it lists a lot of 4K displays.

So my question is, and @flydog answered it, why do commentators keep saying the LG is better (because it's cheaper) when LG isn't selling them. I have seen a few available on Amazon but who know for how long. Right now, anyone who wants a 5K monitor with Thunderbolt connection (necessary for 5K) at a reasonable price has one choice and it's Apple's Studio Display. You want the lower resolution 4K, fine, but I don't.

StrangeDays said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

StrangeDays said:

AppleInsider said:

Whither modular?

Apple really likes to bandy about the word "modular."

Apple literally called this system modular at the release event, and we're not sure what they mean by that. There's no real modularity here unless you count stacking a few up on top of each other and using Universal Control to do different jobs.

In our testing, we did find that eGPU enclosures can be repurposed for Apple Silicon-supported PCI-E cards. Vendors like Sonnet have Thunderbolt PCI-e enclosures and system more geared to cards that aren't as massive as graphics ones.

They're obviously extra expenses, but they do work. That might be what Apple is talking about when it says "modular," but that's a funny Cupertino definition of it, we suppose. [...]

From another source within Apple, we were told that there are "no plans" to offer upgrade modules to customers. Apple-certified technicians supported by a shop will use a serialization tool on the drive modulesm we're told.

I thought it pretty obvious in this context "modular" meant a non-AIO workhorse in additional to the fabulously expensive MP. As opposed to the iMac Pro, which has been retired. Not that it would have additional modules to snap on or something. 

Nobody said anything about snap-on modules. There is no sane definition of modular as it applies to computing that this machine fills.

It's a very nice machine. It's just not what you'd call modular.

Disagree, I’d absolutely call this modular, and say this has been a commonly used term when discussing AIO Macs vs headless, especially around the iMac Pro. People on this very forum debated the topic years back. This isn’t a new interpretation.

My snap-on comment was referring to this bizarre interpretation that modular meant physical attaching them to each other:

“There's no real modularity here unless you count stacking a few up on top of each other”

…completely ignoring the other common interpretation that a separated CPU and display are modular components.

crowley said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

varenhizzles said:

Would love to hear what Apple says! 

I did chat with Apple's online chat support, which impressively connected me with a real human, and after checking with someone else the agent confirmed that yes, the Studio Display should work with the Blackmagic eGPU's Thunderbolt output.  It didn't feel super authorative though, but is at least an optimistic sign.

Cheers!

That's not who I wanted to ask, because Apple support isn't the best.

That said, this time, they're right. I spoke with Blackmagic about it and they say yes. However, it will function like the display will on a PC, and things like the webcam and whatnot they say won't work.

That's strange.  Does the Blackmagic eGPU also not support the additional USB-A and C ports on the LG UltraFine?  I don't see why it would be any different.

Also, does "whatnot" include the speakers?

varenhizzles said:

Would love to hear what Apple says! 

I did chat with Apple's online chat support, which impressively connected me with a real human, and after checking with someone else the agent confirmed that yes, the Studio Display should work with the Blackmagic eGPU's Thunderbolt output.  It didn't feel super authorative though, but is at least an optimistic sign.

Cheers!

EsquireCats said:

Not measured here are the myriad of other issues with the LG UltraFine 5k, including:
1. slow wake time or more rarely unresponsive to waking.
2. backlighting issues best described as the macbook “stage light” problem.
3. The “hydraulic” adjustment system is jerky and requires two hands to operate, it’s also is easy to de-level the screen.
4. The apple community forums are full of system crash complaints related to the LG screen. Particularly if using a macbook pro with dual GPUs.
5. Colour consistency is poor with a noticeable gradient.
6. Sometimes the display will wake with a stripe of offset pixels.

One final note: the apple display has their typical hard glass surface, the LG has no protection, it’s just the cheaper plastic-feeling deformable/soft layer