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> Unfortunately, we still don’t have any great standalone 5K displays. (The LG UltraFine isn’t.)

What’s wrong with the LG display? It gets a lot of criticism, but I find it hard to understand why. There was an interference shielding issue, but it was fixed more than a year ago.

For anyone familiar with the matter, what is it that makes the LG not great?

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My personal issue with it is the lack of standard inputs, which make it impossible to use with an eGPU setup (excluding the Blackmagic, but that's a whole other kind of subpar). The data ports being exclusively USB-C is probably an issue for some as well.

If your complaint about the Blackmagic eGPU being “subpar” was the power of the Radeon Pro 580, you’ll be happy to hear that one with a Vega 56 is now available:

https://store.apple.com/xc/product/HMQT2VC/A

It was partially the 580, partially the inability to swap out the card. It's nice that they're offering Vega options now, but for that model I'd be paying a $500 premium over a comparable setup, with TB3 out being the only benefit. I'll stick with my Dell P2415Q + Akitio Node for now.

I have two of them and they are both excellent. I can see no discernible difference between them and my 5k iMac. They are expensive, though.

I found that the LG UltraFine is by far the best monitor for my MacBook Pro. Nothing else comes close.

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