Philip Houska At the end of June, Apple officially announced that is discontinuing sales of its 27-inch Thunderbolt displays, which were once very popular especially among owners of various MacBooks who needed to connect an external monitor to their laptops. For a long time there has been talk about what the Californian company will replace them with. Yesterday, Apple showed that it is no longer preparing its own monitor, as it has taken the path of cooperation with LG.
The South Korean company LG will exclusively supply two displays under its brand for Apple: the 4-inch UltraFine 21,5K and the 5-inch UltraFine 27K. Both products are maximally adapted for the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and four Thunderbolt 3 ports, which Apple introduced yesterday.
At least initially, both monitors will be available exclusively in Apple Stores, and owners of 12-inch MacBooks will certainly be interested, as UltraFine works with both 4K and 5K resolutions. LG equipped each monitor with three USB-C ports, through which they can be connected to MacBooks. Thunderbolt 3 is compatible with USB-C.
The 21,5-inch UltraFine 4K model is on sale now with delivery within seven weeks and it costs 19 crowns. The 27-inch variant with 5K support will be available from December this year with a price tag of 36 crowns.
Apple is changing its strategy with this move. Instead of creating his own monitor again, he uses the power of a leading electronics company to produce it for him. Considering the last few years, when Apple did not touch its Thunderbolt Display at all, this makes sense. For Tim Cook and co. obviously this product was never very important and the company wants to focus on other areas.
Apple also discounted 4K and 5K monitors from LG. They are cheaper by 5 or 10 crowns respectively. pic.twitter.com/qma7ervdvO
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Finally a wise decision to leave the monitors to someone who can really do them (unlike Apple), although I don't know if LG is the right choice. But I applaud the end of the Apple TB Display, probably the most average, useless and overpriced display ever… ;)
With that mediocrity, I wouldn't be rooting for them that much. Glossy display, the monitor is mostly faded in color without the possibility of calibration (I don't feel the degrading LUT cut on the card). Maybe that's why Apple chose such a sophisticated newcomer as LG to make such monitors.
To be clear, I have nothing against the LG fabric for panels as such. They have her as one of the little ones. He can't really do anything about the things around him (drivers, electronics, etc.). Unfortunately, just like Apple.
Phew, if the external display is from Apple in design and with an apple. Plus it had a good panel. If a monitor from another brand is worth such a racket, I'd rather have the certain quality of EIZO
As for the design, the Ultrasharp line from Dell is quite good, I have a 25" and the image performance is not bad either.
USB-C only.. oops.
I use a 27″ imac connected via TB as an external monitor for my macbook pro
I'd have to be crazy to spend my money on something with LG written on it expecting quality. I don't know what Apple is thinking... As already mentioned above, LG is one of the few manufacturers of displays, but that doesn't mean that they know how to make the monitors they stick into.
I already established cooperation with LG two years before Apple and I am satisfied. :)) I was considering buying an APPLE thunderbolt monitor at the time, but in the end, thanks to the price, LG won. I don't have 4K, but 3440×1440 is enough for me for now, but mainly it's matte.
Probably the biggest joke of Keynote, next to MBP or iMac you have to build these horrors.
I apologize in advance for writing this here - I hope you don't mind. How is it possible to have a "developer" item in the iPhone settings? Is it necessary to register an account or something? A friend has a 5s for a few days - I set it up for him and everything is OK - and yesterday he turned off the phone - the widgets did not respond and td and td and as I go through what he did with it, I see that he has this item in the settings - he was connecting it to the PC via iTunes and he said he was only trying to get ringtones in there - I think he poked around a bit more.
Or is this item related to something else and can be activated somehow?
I gave it a factory reset and reset - now this item is not there and the phone stops working again.
I'm just wondering how easy it is to get it there - or what he had to do with it - he claims that it's nothing, that it's the same - which I don't really like ;)
Thanks.
Well, technically good, but terrible in terms of design... LG could have built this display and Apple could have "packaged" it to match Macs more, this is really not much..:/
I'm glad I don't see it that way myself.
It almost suggests that Apple could theoretically buy LG in the future. But that's just my imagination.