Hacker News Reader

Comment by yurishimo | Hacker News Reader

Except if you compare it to the LG 5K, it's worth the extra cost in build quality alone. The LG monitors are notorious pieces of junk with flaky connectors that come loose like clockwork.

The new Studio display is expensive, but I think the features somewhat justify the price compared to the "competition".

View on HN

You're speaking very confidently about the build quality of a display which was announced to the public two hours ago.

It's not hard to beat the notoriously bad build quality and reliability of the LG UltraFine and Apple has a track record of building solid displays (I have an LED Cinema Display that's going on 13 years old with nary a single issue).

I think your experience has been a constant of most Apple products for the last 22 years or so. Some people have no issues ever, some people have constant issues all the time. That said, I loved the Cinema displays and they did have a good track record, but if memory serves, the Thunderbolt Display variant was notoriously flaky [0]. Since they've put out so few external displays, it does stain their reputation a bit.

[0] https://superpixel.co/apples-thunderbolt-display-worst-apple...

Everything I've heard about the Pro display XDR's has been that all the things like USB/Thunderbolt connectivity are rock solid. This suggests Apple's display group has their goods together, and the Studio Display is likely to be solid too.

Ya, that does hold up, it seems pretty stellar. It is like $7k or something though, I'd really hope that's true.

I'm not sure the Thunderbolt Display is a useful anecdote, here. It's from 11 years ago.

True, but I was replying to someone who directly referenced their Cinema Display from 13 years ago.

My personal take: my two 27" 4K LG monitors run GREAT here. I like the extremely small vertical bezels on both of them (one is a 144Hz and the other is a 60Hz). Connectors are fine. The monitors don't move at all, so build quality issues are imperceptible here. I think I paid something like $600 for each one at different points in time.

Yeah I know its just anecdata but I've been using mine daily for over 4 years now, all day every day, and never had an issue. I love the single cable + built in peripherals and am puzzled at the lack of competition around it. I had really questioned whether I was reaching when I purchased it for ~$1200 but 4+ years later, there's still very little to compare it to. (Tons of great options if you don't want built-in peripherals / single cable of course)

I’ve had 5 ultra fines since they were released in 2016/15ish, both 3x4k 21.5”, and now 2x5k 27”. Never experienced any issues, build quality is quite high in my opinion and the stand is surprisingly solid, much better then my Dell UltraSharps and LG UltraWide.

Of course not at the level of the Apple Displays but they are really outliers in the industry.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com