omasou

tokyojimu said:

omasou said:

Hopefully another port bites the dust soon, using the MagSafe connection would be nice.

But wireless charging is much less efficient. Add up the millions of iPhones in the world times that loss of efficiency and I think we are talking about a huge amount of power.

One it will continue to improve.

Two so what. Do the calculation and post fact instead of posting FUD.

mknelson said:

eightzero said:

The Ars Technica review is quoted as:

"If you are a general user who makes the occasional videos in iMovie, and does some light photo editing or other creative work, you'll enjoy the Studio Display," says the review, "but you can save a few dollars by going with a non-Apple display."

OK, I'm fine with the premise. But exactly which non-Apple display is a competitor? Which 27" 5K UHD thunderbolt display with a comparable camera and speakers competes with this new Apple product? And how many is "a few dollars?"

LG's (possibly soon discontinued as Apple dropped it) 5K display is really the only alternative. It doesn't have a webcam or speakers to compete, but it's also 3/4 the price.

Not everybody wants a webcam or needs speakers* like that - it really depends on the use case.

* I suspect a lot of professional editors are going to use monitors or professional headphones rather than Apple's speakers.

The LG UltraFine 5K Display 27MD5KL has a webcam and speakers AND NO POWER BRICK.

I didn't replace my LG Ultrafines w/the Apple Studio displays b/c other than the speakers (have stereo pair of HomePod minis), camera and other tweaks. They appear to be an Apple repackaged LG Ultrafine screen. I'll wait for TB4 ports.

I have two LG UltraFine 5K monitors so I can afford to wait for the second generation Studio Display. Hopefully, they’ll have 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports then.

One point of note. The LG UltraFine 5K supports TrueTone but isn’t very useful if like me you use a MacBook Pro and keep the computer close and therefore the sensor in the dark. Since the new monitors have the A13, wondering if TrueTone sensor is on the monitor?

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a scam or social media fodder.

I appreciate the nice deep Mac start up sound and it does sound impressive but seriously is anyone listening to the sound coming out of the MacBook speakers? They only really need to be good enough to communicate user feedback. The current speaker placement is to fill the space required for the screen width. So what's the plan, increase the keyboard size? I'm certainly not buy a screen <16"

For everything else, e.g. music. We have a headphone jack and guessing most folks use AirPods or other wireless headset/speaker. Just saying.

Note to Apple, lets spend some engineering hours to give the case back its style and weight! I for one will give up an hour of battery life so my MacBook doesn't look and feel like a brick of aluminum. It's really sad when my work ThinkPad has more style than my newest MacBook Pro.