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People keep saying this: Is this monitor actually competitive with $25k+ reference monitors? Because the specs seem to indicate "no" to me, but I'm not a professional user so can't judge what's important.

Also, to be able to use your own mount you still need the $200 VESA mount.

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Close enough to be considered, yes. However, only tests will show since it's not in pro's hands yet.

Yes it actually is competitive in many ways. Especially for it’s size.

Here are a few other reference displays in the market:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/professionalvideo/Ntt/HDR...

So you're not a professional user and you can't judge what's important. But your gut feeling is telling you that it isn't a good deal ?

I wonder what someone from Apple Product Marketing would think about comments like this when they would've spent the best part of 5 years working closely with potential customers in the product design and specifications.

Come on, it's a fair question, this person said "the specs" seem to indicate, not their gut feeling. As they read the specs it can't literally replace a $25K+ reference display.

Can it, yes or no?

If you are not a professional user how can you interpret the "specs".

You're not seriously saying that you can compare two products that you have no clue about simply by comparing random numbers and picking which is the highest.

It's the equivalent of picking a camera based purely off megapixels whilst ignoring dynamic range, sensor size, lens quality, in camera processing etc.

if Tesla said about a car "this one can compete straight in a nascar race, stock" and really seemed to mean it and kept repeating it, then absolutely it would be a fair question whether it is literally true. Because it's such an unusual claim.

It's yes/no: can it literally go where only a $25k can? Or not literally, no.

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