{"id":23442,"date":"2018-11-20T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23442"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:11:30","slug":"what-happened-to-5k-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/20\/what-happened-to-5k-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to 5K Displays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2018\/11\/16\/what-happened-to-5k-displays\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2018\/11\/16\/what-happened-to-5k-displays\/\">\n<p>With the recent releases of the MacBook Air and the Mac mini, Apple made a point of saying that they can drive a 5K display running at 5120-by-2880 resolution with a refresh rate of up to 60 Hz. That sounds great, but if you&rsquo;ve been assuming that you could waltz out and buy such a 5K display, you might need to think again.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In short, the LG UltraFine 5K Display appears to be the only 5K display you can buy today, and you would have to order it online, sight unseen. If you can wait, it&rsquo;s possible that LG will have a new model, and Apple has said that it will be releasing an Apple-branded professional display alongside the revamped Mac Pro in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard to see the broader display industry getting behind 5K displays in a big way at this point. Apple often releases new technologies before other companies, which sometimes makes Apple&rsquo;s engineers seem prescient and at other times causes Apple&rsquo;s products to end up in technological cul-de-sacs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/mac-mini-2018\/\">Mac mini 2018<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: With the recent releases of the MacBook Air and the Mac mini, Apple made a point of saying that they can drive a 5K display running at 5120-by-2880 resolution with a refresh rate of up to 60 Hz. That sounds great, but if you&rsquo;ve been assuming that you could waltz out and buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-20T21:49:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"7598968a-0128-47be-bd41-349b760f89e2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-21T03:11:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdZiWigEoR769QTSbdg-J4g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[838,30,1609,83],"class_list":["post-23442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-display","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-retina"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23444,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions\/23444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}