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Apple is discontinuing the only monitor it makes, the Thunderbolt Display
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I also really doubt they will make something new.
They never discontinued their old displays until they brought out the Thunderbolt display. They never discontinued the Thunderbolt display, even if it still had USB2 and Firewire 800. Why discontinue them now? If the 5K display is coming, why make the extra step of discontinuing it NOW and telling people that there are other options?
To be honest, if Apple doesn’t make their own displays anymore, it would make me sad. I did love the Thunderbolt displays, and the old Apple displays. And with the 5K iMac, I thought they would love to make those displays in mass production too, with Thunderbolt 3 arriving.
It does strengthen the image that they don’t care that much about their computer-business anymore, wether I agree with it or not.
And I really hope I am wrong, and Apple comes out with a new display.https://mathieughekiere.wordpress.com
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Before we get too sentimental about Apple getting out of the display business, I would like to remind everyone that the power-supply-i/o-dongle that came with the Apple cinema display was perhaps the worst designed, least ergonomic piece of hardware to be created by a company not immediately going into bankruptcy in modern history. Maybe this is for the best.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “the power-supply-i/o-dongle that came with the Apple cinema display was perhaps the worst designed, least ergonomic piece of hardware to be created by a company not immediately going into bankruptcy in modern history. Maybe this is for the best.”
My brother-in-law worked for Apple for a dozen-ish years — the SJ interregnum through just past the turn of the century. Bright fella, with razor-sharp business discipline, so when product lines were underperforming, he went to analyze them, and more often than not, kill ’em. He became known as The Angel of Death.
I know there were a bunch of ’em, but the lines I can remember him axing off the top of my head are the digital camera (terrible), scanners (terrible), printers (the early ones were terrific, by the end of the road, not so much), and CRT-era monitors.
Those last CRT monitors were hideous. Do you remember the 17AV? I was doing video production, the core market for that monitor, right?, hence the AV, so he sent me one to test. I brushed past it one day and it shot an ARC out of it — a 2-inch bolt that hit me so hard I fell over and for a moment, I couldn’t even see. I knew my wiring wasn’t the culprit, so I got a little closer while seated in my rolling chair, and BANG! It was only a half-inch arc this time because I was closer…
….so I got on the phone and politely, quietly, and with no profanity (HAHAHAHAHA) asked what’s the haps. He said, “Yeah, I was afraid of that. It kept happening here in house, so I wanted to check it in the field.” Thanks for the warning, man.
But there’s not one of those products that didn’t need to die. They ALL needed to die, and the world is better for it.
The last thing my boy axed (that I remember) before he left was slots in Mac towers. He was a direct report to Steve, who somewhere around the turn of the century (one of you will surely remember when) tasked him with finding out how many slots were in use by the average Mac customer. He determined the number to be 1.1. Steve said fine, we round it up to 1.5, double it, so 3 slots it is, and no need to worry about supporting third-party external chassis anymore.
Anyway, this doesn’t feel like a big deal to me. In an iMac/laptop world, Apple actually could have done this a few years ago and it wouldn’t have really mattered to them, or most of their customers. My guess is that they made this decision a good long while ago, and only announced it when stockpiles grew so low that there was no longer any reason not to announce it. Blow out the last ones to people who want to get ’em while they can.
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I’ll play contrarian to many of these comments. I’ve been using Cinema Displays since day one. Still have a 30″ in active use. I’ve always felt that they were superior to third party options for a very long time. Still not sure I’ve seen anything better out there. If you have a recommendation I’d love to hear it… always needing monitors. Especially if you have a 4K option that is worth a damn. Lots of crap out there. Want good, not cheap.
Apple, IMO, painted themselves into a corner. There was no reason for a 5K iMac. What was the point? There still isn’t a point. Where’s the 5K footage? Where’s the 5K TV’s?
I could understand a 4K iMac… that would make sense. Once they made a 5K iMac, I knew there would be no 4K monitor. The nMP can’t use a 5K display, so if they made one, it would infuriate the people who spent a fortune on the nMP’s. Making a 4K iMac and a 4K display would have made everyone happy. Maybe the same people that made the decision on the rollout for FCP X were in charge of the monitor program?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Mitch Ives] “Apple, IMO, painted themselves into a corner. There was no reason for a 5K iMac. What was the point?”
Ability to view 4K footage at 1:1 but still have room for an app on screen? Ex. you are using After Effects and you can view 4K 1:1 and still have room for some GUI. That’s the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. Other than just a bigger number for marketing reasons.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Other than just a bigger number for marketing reasons.”
That’s what I think it was all about…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Apple monitor with integrated GPU still expected following discontinued Thunderbolt Display
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[Andrew Kimery] “That’s the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. Other than just a bigger number for marketing reasons.”
In order to get a ‘retina’ display at a simulated 1440 with 4:1 pixels you need it to be 5K. A UHD 4K monitor is only “Retina” in a 1080 view setting.
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I wonder whether that gpu display will be just for the display or that it can be used for editing purposes as well. If the gpu would be able to work along side the nMP gpu’s that would be quite nice.
André
yourguitarworkshop.com
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