The new Apple monitor costs $5000

Greedy fucks.

Idiots will still pay that for Macs!

Does the stand suck me off?

No R3, Gross, stop being a piggy whore slut. It will elevate your stand among the IN crowd, which is way better than gett sucked off

I have a huge iMac desktop about six years old. I think it was $2400 or so? I mean, I'd happily get another one, but that seems outrageous. Shouldn't the price of all desktops be shrinking as fewer people use them?

Surprised by this since they've lost millions in sales due to over-pricing the recent iPhones and newest Mac Mini. They had to drop the price on the iPhones to try to recoup. Their shareholders are going to kill the company.

Time to sell one of my kids

These are designed for people who design 3d animation, do 3d renderings.....high level pro work.

Tim, you're just terrible at this.

Probably the same price as a 1 business trip for the employee whose company must buy this for him or her.

Goods and services are worth precisely what consumers are willing to pay for them. No more, no less.

True, but we can still call out a company for price-gouging and mock the people dumb enough to pay $1000 for a $50 monitor stand.

OP A fool and his money are easily parted.

Honestly, I would get the whole combo b/c my friends will be green with envy.

Monitor Size Queens.

So apple is officially no longer about innovation. Just "flash"

How they get away with this when you can buy a Samsung 75 inch 4K TV is beyond my comprehension. Sure it may not be the best but there has to be some type of middle ground.

^^^for under $2,000

Do people even use desktops anymore?

As a gamer, I have to, if I want to be VR ready R19

I'm assuming that an NEC display still has greater coverage of the sRGB and AdobeRGB color spaces, as well as the others.

You really don't need that kind of definition unless you're doing high-end imaging / video editing etc.

I use my desktop to watch movies. And that’s it. When it goes kaput, no more Apple for me.

Do you understand that monitor is not designed for the average consumer, but for professionals in the graphics industry?

Apple also makes the Imac with the monitor incorporated.

I use a MacBook hooked up to a $250 HP monitor. It suits me fine. But I don't do architectural renderings or 3d animation or Photoshop images for Vogue.

And even if you do, R22, there are far cheaper alternatives.

Yes, we do understand that, R24, but that still doesn't excuse the price for the monitor. Or the $1000 for the stand.

This is the most popular monitor that graphic studios for high end work.

Note the price.

[quote]And even if you do, [R22], there are far cheaper alternatives.

Yes, and higher quality, like an NEC display.

Eizo is also good.

This monitor is designed to compete with reference monitors that run $10k to $50k. This isn't a monitor that you buy and stick on your desk at work, this is for intensive graphics work and movie editing.

The "processor" that OP mentioned is the new Mac Pro. It is a workstation, and again, this isn't a consumer or prosumer machine. This is a serious workstation for high end, intensive applications - recording studios, rendering farms, computer animation, film editing.

During the keynote they focused a lot on editing and creating 8k content - that takes a LOT of computing power.

The prices for these are not out of line for what they are designed for. They are very expensive, but these aren't machines that are used for email and spreadsheets, they are serious content creation machines.

If you got the money and/or need the special qualities a monitor like this possesses or perhaps you just crave some sort of validation from having something like this, have at it. I certainly do not have the money, but It looks quite lovely. I like desktops because you have a better chance of having the best visual display monitor with a desktop. Plus I have a desk that enjoys being rode by a desktop computer.

The best laptop I ever had was a Samsung. Fuck Apple.

Break them up! It was good enough for Standard Oil!

Apple is so elitist. Let me know when they create for the common folk.

Standard consumer models and professional consumer models are in the iMac and iMac Pro, which do range from $2K to $6k and are very powerful systems.

The Mac Pro is a 28 core system. It’s roughly 7 times more powerful than your standard high end system, scales to 1.5 TERABYTES of memory. Not disk: MEMORY. It’s designed for the high end of the market in programming, software design, graphics, architecture - Apple’s traditional market. It lost a lot of this market with the shiteous 2013 Mac Pro redesign.

It’s doubtful many of us would buy the Mac Pro. There’s little need. The iMac Pro satisfies much of the market segment that needs reasonably high power but the convenience of all in one.

Even after 10 Macs, I won’t be buying the new Mac Pro. I’m close to retirement and I don’t see the need.

...and you can't draw on it. Fucking amazing.

[quote]The "processor" that OP mentioned is the new Mac Pro. It is a workstation, and again, this isn't a consumer or prosumer machine. This is a serious workstation for high end, intensive applications - recording studios, rendering farms, computer animation, film editing.

Exactly. After the Final Cut X debacle, I thought they’d given up on the high end media application side of things. Guess not.

I'm happy with my Chromebook.

This is just the beginning