Hopefully what’s also left is a 27-inch iMac with M2 or M2 Pro chip inside. The current 24-inch iMac just doesn’t cut it, and the Mac Studio + Apple Display combo is way to expensive compared to the price point of Intel iMacs.
Yeah, I was going to mention 27 inch iMac as well. I used to work for a design agency and we used to buy 27 inch iMacs with upgraded CPUs and 16GB of RAM, and then we would install another 32GB of RAM ourselves. The quality of the 5K screen was good enough, savings on the RAM upgrade were significant, they were quite good computers for the price. We used them for all designers that didn't need to attend too many meetings. More senior people got laptops. During COVID we moved everyone to laptops, but I was still curious what Apple will do with the powerful iMac. Let's not forget they also offered iMac Pro, with a Xeon CPU and 128GB of RAM.
I'd imagine most people going for the Mac Studio arent touching the balked Apple Display. It's been riddled with problems and at that price point you can get far better displays now. The panel they're using dates back to 2017 so it's not exactly like you're getting the latest and greatest in screen technology.
Other displays have higher refresh rates, but the resolution is still special. Color accuracy is also great.
The annoying bug with choppy repeating audio stays unfixed 8 months after introduction and fix with the hassle of disconnecting the monitor from power for an extended time is just ridiculous.
When you really look into what's available, there's a fair bit of variation in the market for different customers, but there's incredibly few 5k+ displays at 27 or ~30 inches. Like zero if you discount the LG. Everything else is kind of ok, but not always a good replacement.
"The ViewFinity S9 (Model Number: S90PC) is Samsung’s newest addition to its monitor lineup. It features a 5K 27” screen for the first time and is optimized for creative professionals such as graphic designers and photographers. Its 5,120 x 2,880 resolution combined with its wide color gamut of 99% DCI-P3, provides crisp and true-to-form details, and its average Delta E ≦ 2[1] color accuracy also produces clear and precise color representation, even in complicated or nuanced visual environments."
Wow, that's extremely timely and is pretty much exactly what I was hoping someone would link to correct me. I'll keep my eye on that, thanks. I'd personally still only be in the market for a >27" size, just because I feel like 27" is too small, but this would open the floor for competition in that range.
I really like the 30" Ultrasharp, and would consider a 32" as long as the resolution, connectivity, pixel density, and panel tech are in place.
> This is about to change with higher spec connectors being more widely available.
Thunderbolt 3 has been around for over five years on mainstream Mac (and Windows) machines, so what’s the excuse again?
I can count the number of monitors in the same resolution space (or higher) on one hand! ;) There’s the insanely priced XDR 6K, there’s the not much better priced Dell 8K, then there’s the LG 5K that’s cheap plastic build quality and hasn’t been refreshed in 5 years. Anyone else? … Bueler?
I have one, and from a pure display standpoint, it's the second best display I've ever used right behind the latest MBP 16". I don't use the speakers or webcam, and wish Apple would have left them off and dropped the price. Unfortunately there just isn't any 5k competition out there so Apple can do what they want. If it was cheaper I would have bought two, but as it stands I'm using an old 4k as my secondary monitor.
I had to replace my 27-inch iMac anyway (it just died). But I agree with you, I haven’t found a display as good as the iMac’s that isn’t €1500. I settled with what was supposed to be one of the best Dells for that size (4K, which is itself a compromise); the viewing angles are suboptimal and luminosity is not that great.
There are only really two types of passwords: Passwords for online accounts and passwords used to encrypt things.
Imagine the password for my Gmail is Watermelon45. Theory says that's super weak, but I'm not a watermelon farmer and I wasn't born in 1945 so nobody who knows me is ever going to guess it. I trust Google will effectively block against brute force attacks by rate limiting login attempts, and if Google is breached and the password cracked as long as I'm not reusing it somewhere else it doesn't matter.
Now if I encrypt my portable SSD with the same password that is a problem. It would be trivial to brute force. So external storage, computer logins, ssh keys are perhaps examples of the very few situations where high entropy passwords are actually useful. For everything else which is 95% of passwords, easy to remember but unique is fine.
> Now if I encrypt my portable SSD with the same password that is a problem. It would be trivial to brute force.
Probably not so trivial. It's very likely (disclosure: I'd need to check, but I'd expect that to be true in 2022) that the actual encryption key of your storage is a randomly-generated key, which is then protected with your password and a very slow decryption algorithm, so that bruteforcing is not so fast. Still, single dictionary word + two ciphers won't be terribly hard to decrypt for a really interested party.
But the point is that such attack requires physical access to your device (unless some other network hack is performed), which is a kind of 2FA.
