shareef777

kojack said:

crowley said:

tommikele said:

Don't like the conditions and your employer isn't breaking the law? Have conviction and quit. Walking off the job is a very different thing than a protest. By all means protest. Walk off the job? See you at the unemployment office.

Disagree pretty much entirely.  Be the change you want to see in the world, don't just turn your back on it.

You have to realise what company they are fighting. Most people here are "apple can do no wrong" types.  I am supporting the workers 100 percent. Just as I support the Amazon workers taking a stand.  Terrible working conditions are terrible working conditions no matter what company it is.  Most people here think apple's farts smell like roses and baby powder. They are a megacorporation who do not care about anything other than the almighty dollar. End of story.

Yeah, I’ve jumped from forum to forum and it’s always the same. Apple Cult is a real thing.

I’ll stick with my $160 IKEA blinds. They work perfectly well with HomeKit via a $35 hub.

tundraboy said:

shareef777 said:

indieshack said:

Really…27”? 

This is just a replacement of the 27" Intel iMac. They've had those for over a decade.

I think the point is that with the screen size unchanged, it is now pretty close to the lower end 24" which increased from 21.5".  I myself had hoped that it would have been bumped up to 30".

The 21.5" was just grossly undersized and long overdue to be upped to 24" (the minimum size for monitors for the past 5 years). This also better aligns with the 24/27" LG Ultrafine monitors that Apple themselves have sold for the past 5 years. I can see as an opportunity for a 32" iMac (Pro) being offered in the future though.

EsquireCats said:

I eagerly await Apple to return to making a display that includes a camera and speakers. The LG UltraFine 5K screen that Apple no longer sell was an absolute disaster - after buying it I quickly remembered why I swore away from pricy 3rd party displays. This screen was reputation damaging:

• It would receive interference from nearby wifi devices, which would crash the system
• It was slow to wake, or often didn't wake at all - sometimes waking with subtle visual distortions, or again crashing the system
• It has a sub-par viewing angle and excessive light bleed from the edges
• It was freaking expensive for being a dud product and LG made it near-impossible to return it

You can play this game with just about any 3rd party device, cost is irrelevant. Want a good wifi router that plays along with hand-off and homekit? The best device is still the old Apple Airport Extreme from 2013. Want a Network attached storage that won't silently corrupt your Time Machine backup? That's the 2013 Time Capsule. etc. etc.

I have two LG 5K displays and know exactly what you mean in regards to the first two points. First was a factory shielding defect. Was able to ship the monitors back to LG to get fixed and haven't had that issue since. The second issue was 100% and Apple MacOS issue (haven't had that since Mojave), and I've been using both on my current M1Max MBP and they're performing superbly.

Third point was specific to individual monitors. One of mine had excessive light bleed, and even worse, really bad image retention that bothers me to no end. Enough so that I'm no longer buying LG monitors. Second monitor was perfect from the start. Not sure how pervasive the light bleed and retention issues were/are, but that's something that took a year to appear and LG support wouldn't do anything for me. If my first monitor didn't have the light bleed and image retention (essentially if I'd just gotten two of the same batch as my second monitor) I'd be a life long LG display fan. But I got a dud and support told me to get lost so they lost me forever and I let everyone know to avoid them.

But to your point, the LG 5K is THEE BEST monitor for Macs, bar none. Even the XDR doesn't include a camera or speakers! Issue is they don't support their own products so here I sit waiting for an Apple monitor instead.

darkvader said:

shareef777 said:

The best display is the XDR and it’s not meant for people in general, it’s meant for professionals. Just because it’s not sold in volumes doesn’t mean higher end (low volume) products shouldn’t be made. The average monitor today is 2k one going for ~$500. Apple offering a “lower cost” smaller XDR at $2500 doesn’t fit that average, not even on the high end. The high end consumer monitor is a monster 49 inch curved one by Samsung and it “only” goes for $2000.

An M1 iMac sans Mac parts is EXACTLY what people would go for. $700 for the 24”, $1000 for a 27”, and $1500 for a 32”.

No, it's not meant for professionals.  I work with video professionals, folks who do TV stuff that there's a decent chance you've seen.

They don't have monitors like that ridiculous $5000 Apple screen.

Those are for rich idiots.

lol, riiiiiiight, "tv stuff". You do realize there're monitors yet more expensive then the XDR. Not saying the XDR is worth it (far from it), but some photo/video professionals spend north of $5k on a monitor.