Look at the placement of the ports, the lack of additional video inputs - just like the iMac/TB display and very unlike LG).Īs for the prices - the crafty thing about that keynote is that the products they were extolling the virtue of were not the products they announced the prices of. but a nice aluminium enclosure and black glass front would have sufficed, they didn't have to go all steampunk on us (when I'm fitting out my vacuum Zeppelin I'll know what computer to get).Īctually, my conspiracy theory about the LG 5k display is that it was supposed to be the new Apple TB display - with a metal case and glass front (extend the bezels slightly to accommodate an iMac-style taper, stick a sheet of black glass over the front and the 'forehead' vanishes - put a metal case on it and those pesky E/M interference problems from the early versions vanish, too. When a large part of your target audience are graphic designers and artists then - news at 11! - aesthetics will be relevant. the best I can say about that 'forehead' is that it doesn't stop the display from working - that doesn't make it good. They're not going to drill a bunch of holes in the frame and call it a day. If I remember correctly, the VESA mount for a 30' ACD was somewhere in the $70 to $80 range and routinely fetched around $200 (if you could find one) after Apple stopped making them.Ĭertainly a $200 VESA mount is a pretty generous markup, but did anyone not expect this? All Apple monitors have needed VESA adapters. The VESA mount adapters for the old school Apple Cinema Displays were nothing to sneeze at either and those had a larger audience to dilute the cost. that forehead Ay!Īll that precision machined aluminum is gonna cost a pretty penny. They didn't want some cost cutting LG plastic box that was design agnostic but cost-sensitive. They were clinging to their Thunderbolt and Apple Cinemas until Jonny Ive could ride in and save them from accepting mediocrity. Yeah, but this is precisely what lots of Macheads were clamoring for without any forethought about the potential cost.

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