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Apple Pay and Apple Pay Later are different entities from the Apple Card.

“Apple Pay Later is offered by Apple Financing LLC, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., which is responsible for credit assessment and lending.”

“Goldman Sachs is the issuer of the Mastercard payment credential used to complete Apple Pay Later purchases.”

You are borrowing money from Apple Financing when you get a loan via Apple Pay Later, not Goldman Sachs. It’s the same “Mastercard Installments” BNPL program that Apple uses when you buy Apple products and pay over time using the Apple Card. Those loans at 0% also come from Apple Financing, not Goldman Sachs. 

thedba said:

appleinsideruser said:

darkvader said:

There's an easy fix right now.

Just get a mini and a non-Apple screen.  I'm telling ALL my clients not to buy iMacs any more.  It's just ridiculous to buy a 24" all in one computer when you can get a computer that's just as powerful and a 30" screen for less money.

Yes. But I do like the all-in-one package as i can easily shift it around, which suits my work setup. At risk of going off topic, do you have a recommended hiDPI monitor that is as good as my 5k iMac?

General rule of thumb to retain the "Retina"  DPI's
24"  -->  4.5K    (Apple's current 24 inch iMac)

27"  -->  5K       (Apple studio Display)

30"   -->  5.5K    (My estimate)

32"  -->  6K       (Apple Pro Display XDR)

But it always depends on what you do.

If you're in to the Visual Arts (Photography / Film / Video) then resolution is but one aspect of what you're looking for. Color accuracy, HDR/XDR, peak brightness, dimming zones (for non-OLED) are all things you should be looking at. 

The new Samsung Retina 5K copycat (ViewFinity S9 5K, currently available in Asia) is a serious competitor, incorporating most of the things you pay extra for in the Studio Display, but at around the same price as the LG 5K UltraFine. I would be worried about build quality, but in every other respect it is highly competitive, probably (the US price is not yet known) $1000 less than Apple's with rotating, height-adjustable stand and nano-texture glass.

The Dell 6K is $3200, so I think at that level you have to start looking at the Pro Display XDR if the things thedba mentions are important to you. Also, just speaking for myself, I don't know if I could live with that camera. Yikes!

Here we go again! They already have a Retina (218 ppi) 4.5K foundation for this generation of iMac, which would only be incrementally larger at Retina 5K with the current bezels. Both the 21" and the 27" are gone, replaced by the 24". But that does not mean a larger unit is not in the works.

So then, what Retina resolution might they be looking at? Here is a list of 16:9 HD (high definition) resolutions. For fun, I've included some of the higher multiples that have never been used. The obvious target for a 30" Retina iMac is 3240p. I'd also love to see them come out with two new Studio Displays at 2520p and 3240p, matching the iMacs. Let Apple's marketing people figure out what to call those resolutions. Thunderbolt 5 puts all of these possible higher resolutions into play, but for 3600p and above, I think we're looking at panels denser than 218 ppi. Dell's 31.5" 4320p (8K) is 280 ppi.

mac_dog said:

For the first time, Apple has disappointed. I just purchased the studio display and the camera is of such an inferior quality. I think my iPhone 4s may have had a better camera. Not up to the Apple standard — and this is saying something. I haven’t been this disappointed in an Apple product since before Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the 90s. Unfortunately, it’s the only monitor available in the machine that meets my needs and I can’t hold out another year for a larger iMac. 

Once I turned off Center Stage, it was fine. It’s like it was trying to be an iPad. I’m happy with it now.

You should prepare yourself for the likelihood that if Apple builds a 30" iMac, it’s going to have the same approach to the power supply as the 24" iMac. You can rail against it all you want, but that won’t change anything.