A Glimpse into Apple's Next-Generation Professional Display: What We Know and What We Don't

Recently, rumors have been circulating about Apple's next-generation professional display, which is expected to feature a 6K resolution and a 31.6-inch panel. This new display has been the subject of much speculation, with many experts eager to learn more about its features and specifications.

One of the most significant aspects of this upcoming display is its increased resolution. According to reports, the display will have roughly 23 million pixels, which is approximately a 44% increase in resolution over current 5K displays that Apple ships. This represents a substantial leap forward in terms of screen real estate and pixel density. The math seems to square up in favor of this new display, but it's still impossible to say for certain how these features will be implemented.

Another key aspect of the new display is its size. Qual reports indicate that the panel will measure 31.6 inches, which is larger than the 27-inch 5K iMac, including its bezels. This means that while the bezels themselves may not be as large as those on the 5K iMac, the overall footprint of the display will remain roughly the same.

The implications of this increased size and resolution are significant. One of the most notable benefits is the potential for thinner and more energy-efficient bezels. Apple has long been at the forefront of consumer display technology, and it's likely that they will continue to push the boundaries of what's possible with their displays. According to close rapport, the new display will have outstanding picture quality thanks to a mini LED like backlight design. This means that regions of the backlight can be turned on or off, resulting in true black OLED-like effects.

This mini LED design also implies improved contrast ratios compared to current generation Mac displays. By allowing individual regions of the backlight to be turned on or off, the display will be able to produce a more precise and nuanced range of colors. This is particularly important for professional users who require high-quality color accuracy in their work.

In addition to its technical specifications, there are also questions surrounding the cost and availability of this new display. It's likely that it will be priced at a premium, potentially above $3,000 or even $5,000. However, the exact price point has not yet been confirmed by Apple.

Finally, there is one more aspect of the new display that warrants attention: its i/o capabilities. The Thunderbolt display was notable for its generous amount of i/o ports, which made it an attractive option for professionals who needed to connect multiple devices directly from their display. However, given the immense bandwidth required by a 6K display connection, it's unclear how Apple will address this issue. Will they employ a new type of i/o technology or stick with existing standards? Only time will tell.

Overall, while we still have much to learn about Apple's next-generation professional display, the rumors and reports so far suggest that it's going to be an exciting development for professionals who require high-quality displays. Whether you're willing to pay top dollar for it remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: this new display has the potential to revolutionize the way we work with video and graphics.

The Cost and Availability of Apple's Next-Generation Professional Display

As mentioned earlier, there are questions surrounding the cost and availability of Apple's next-generation professional display. It's likely that it will be priced at a premium, potentially above $3,000 or even $5,000. However, the exact price point has not yet been confirmed by Apple.

While we can't say for certain how much this new display will cost, it's worth noting that it will likely be an investment for professionals who require high-quality displays in their work. For those who are willing to spend a premium for top-notch technology, the benefits of this new display may well outweigh the costs.

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To celebrate our latest episode of Back to the Mac, we're giving away a Cow Digit T display with 32 gigabytes of storage. This device retails for over $1,500 and would be an excellent addition to any professional's workflow.

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Stay Tuned for Future Episodes

As always, our next episode of Back to the Mac is just around the corner. Stay tuned for more news and updates from Apple, as well as discussions on the latest trends and developments in tech.

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Conclusion

Apple's next-generation professional display is shaping up to be an exciting development that will revolutionize the way we work with video and graphics. With its 6K resolution, 31.6-inch panel, and mini LED like backlight design, this new display has the potential to become a go-to tool for professionals in the industry.

While there's still much to learn about this new display, one thing is certain: it will be an investment worth considering for those who require high-quality displays in their work. Whether you're willing to pay top dollar for it remains to be seen, but with Apple's reputation for delivering cutting-edge technology, we can't wait to see what this new display has in store.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going guys this is Jeff Benjamin with nine-to-five Mack this is episode number 12 back to the maket on this week's episode we're discussing Apple's upcoming professional display which is given some details in a recent report by supply chain analysts mainsheet whoa needless to say is a very exciting time to be a fan of the Mac especially in 2019 when there's so much Hardware in MacBooks a new modular Mac Pro perhaps new iMacs and of course that Apple professional display and that's what we're going to talk about primarily in this episode back to the Mac thanks for watching nine-to-five Mac be sure to thumbs up click the subscribe button and then enable notifications with the bill icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos so what do we know about this Pro display well prior to this week we didn't know much we knew a relative time table we knew it was scheduled for 2019 in fact Apple initially announced it in April of 2017 they had that roundtable discussion where they invited some journalists to discuss their upcoming professional plans that's where they initially announced the modular Mac Pro and that new professional high-end display now back in December of 2017 they again mentioned this high-end professional display in the press release for the iMac pro they just had a little note at the end of the press release stating that it was still coming Apple again mentioned the modular Mac Pro in an April 2018 interview with TechCrunch they didn't mention the professional display at that time but it was assumed that those were sort of companion devices that would ship together and they noted that 2019 was the year for the modular Mac Pro so we know that Apple has a timeline for 2019 it with close recent report that sort of reconfirms that Apple is still on track for a 2019 release so it's possible that we could see this new Mac Pro alongside that professional display at WWDC or maybe later this fall but we know for sure that it's scheduled to hit this year so are there any other important details that we can gather from close report well of course so we know the timetable 2019 but we also know the resolution this will be a six keh display and that's a significant increase in resolution over what Apple currently ships in its 5k iMac which is a 5k justice Lee obviously it's a 5k display right but what does 6k really mean in practice and why is that such an appealing upgrade to creative prose well let's discuss that right now so 6k it looks great on paper right but what might this mean as far as an actual number well after looking at the scaled resolution options in my iMac pros display preferences I came upon this number here 3200 by 1800 what's interesting about that is if you multiply it by 2 you get roughly 6k resolution which will be 6400 by 3600 so since the so called Retina version of this resolution is already present in the 5k iMac at 3200 by 1800 it's a possibility that 6400 by 3600 could represent the native resolution of the upcoming professional display with the default resolution of course being that 3200 by 1800 so there would be two times exact pixel doubled retina mode for that upcoming display which would be a lot more resolution when compared to the 2560 by 1440 default resolution of the 5k iMac so 6400 by 3600 that is a lot of pixels let's see how that compares to a 5k display and you can see that a 5k 50 120 by 2880 display fits nicely inside a 6k 6400 by 3600 display but now let's compare UHD 4k you could see that 3840 by 2160 display definitely has lots of room to spare inside that 6k footprint here's 1080p you can see it's even greater actually you can fit nine different full instances of 1080p within a 6k display with room left over that is crazy right but let's talk about some real-world scenarios like editing 4k video and Final Cut bro right now on a 50 120 by 2880 display this is how fully 100% zoomed in 4k video looks like on the interface you have just that little bit of space left over for the Final Cut Pro 10 interface so you see the timeline you see the browser you see the transitions and things like that but there's not really that much room to navigate the timeline there's not any room for the inspector at all if you wanted to open that up you would go less than 100 percent 4k as you can see there so editing 4k video when you have it viewed at a hundred percent just isn't a very ideal editing workspace it's doable but it's not very appealing now let's do the same thing with a 6k display let's simulate how much extra real estate you would have thin so here is a 4k video at a hundred percent notice how much more real estate there is on screen with a 6k display and actually we're just gonna run that same resolution here on our 5k iMac and you can see a whole lot more space you have room for the inspector for the timeline for the browser for all your transitions and you still have that full 100% zoomed in 4k video displayed at the same time so it makes a huge difference now again just to reiterate we're not saying 100% for sure that this will be the native resolution of the upcoming professional mac display however it seems likely seems possible this represents roughly a 44 percent increase in resolution over the current 5k displays that Apple ships this is roughly 23 just a little over 23 million pixels versus a little less than 15 million pixels so that's a substantial increase in resolution compared to 5k really all the math kind of squares up however we still can't say for sure it will have to wait and see so the next most important piece of information that we can take from this report is the size of the panel qual reports that this will be a thirty one point six inch display which is obviously a pretty big difference when compared to the 27-inch display in the 5k I in fact the 31.6 inch display would actually be larger than the 5k iMac including its bezels so this is a significant increase in real estate so what might we take from that well obviously the bezels aren't gonna be as large as the 5k iMac they're probably extremely thin bezels maybe even bezel free although I doubt Apple goes that far but they will no doubt be very very thin bezels so that means that from a bezel in screen perspective it should roughly maintain the same footprint of a 5k iMac yet with the larger display and a whole lot more resolution so is there anything else we can take from close rapport well he does say this he does say that this upcoming display will have outstanding picture quality thanks to a mini LED like backlight design so this essentially means that regions of the backlight can be turned on or off unlike current Mac displays in other words if you turn a backlight off in a region you get an effect similar to true black OLED this results in much improved contrast ratios when compared to current generation Mac displays of course there could be other potential benefits a more precise backlight design thinner more energy-efficient etc and really when you think about it is sort of makes sense Apple has long been at the forefront of consumer display technology you think about Retina displays back with the iPhone 4 you think about the 5k iMac you think about technologies like true tone and promotion so I am very excited to see what this new display is gonna be like when it's all said and done but there are still quite a few things we still don't know and two of them definitely stand out number one cost how much will this thing cost I think it's going to be quite expensive are we talking about three thousand or five thousand dollars who knows and then we also have the i/o one of the things about the Thunderbolt display that was really appealing was the amount of i/o but given the immense amount of bandwidth that will be required by the display connection it'll be interesting to see what type of i/o or what solution Apple employs for connecting to external devices directly from the display so indeed there's still a lot that we don't yet know about this display and it's probably unlikely that our getting details are going to leak about this display however we may still learn more things from the supply chain so stay tuned a 9 to 5 Mac of course for updates on that but with everything that we know thus far the timetable of release the 6k resolution the 31 point 6 inch display panel the mini LED inspired backlight does this sound like a display that you like to use what would you be willing to pay for it let me know down below in the comment section and if you're a professional user also please feel free to comment let me know your thoughts on what we know thus far of course we will be back with future episodes of back to the Mac discussing other plans that Apple has in store for 2019 hardware wise and a lot of other stuff as well also it wouldn't be a back to the Mac episode without a giveaway yes we are giving away the cow digit T for 32 gigabyte version which retails for over $1500 if you want to enter to win follow nine to five Mac on Instagram like the posts related to this episode of back to the Mac and leave a commet well then select a winner at random next Tuesday so ladies and gents boys and girls thanks for watching this latest episode of back to the Mac stay tuned for additional episodes in the near future and also hit that subscribe and like button if you appreciated this video and let me know what you guys think down below in the comments this is Jeff with the nine-to-five Machow's it going guys this is Jeff Benjamin with nine-to-five Mack this is episode number 12 back to the maket on this week's episode we're discussing Apple's upcoming professional display which is given some details in a recent report by supply chain analysts mainsheet whoa needless to say is a very exciting time to be a fan of the Mac especially in 2019 when there's so much Hardware in MacBooks a new modular Mac Pro perhaps new iMacs and of course that Apple professional display and that's what we're going to talk about primarily in this episode back to the Mac thanks for watching nine-to-five Mac be sure to thumbs up click the subscribe button and then enable notifications with the bill icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos so what do we know about this Pro display well prior to this week we didn't know much we knew a relative time table we knew it was scheduled for 2019 in fact Apple initially announced it in April of 2017 they had that roundtable discussion where they invited some journalists to discuss their upcoming professional plans that's where they initially announced the modular Mac Pro and that new professional high-end display now back in December of 2017 they again mentioned this high-end professional display in the press release for the iMac pro they just had a little note at the end of the press release stating that it was still coming Apple again mentioned the modular Mac Pro in an April 2018 interview with TechCrunch they didn't mention the professional display at that time but it was assumed that those were sort of companion devices that would ship together and they noted that 2019 was the year for the modular Mac Pro so we know that Apple has a timeline for 2019 it with close recent report that sort of reconfirms that Apple is still on track for a 2019 release so it's possible that we could see this new Mac Pro alongside that professional display at WWDC or maybe later this fall but we know for sure that it's scheduled to hit this year so are there any other important details that we can gather from close report well of course so we know the timetable 2019 but we also know the resolution this will be a six keh display and that's a significant increase in resolution over what Apple currently ships in its 5k iMac which is a 5k justice Lee obviously it's a 5k display right but what does 6k really mean in practice and why is that such an appealing upgrade to creative prose well let's discuss that right now so 6k it looks great on paper right but what might this mean as far as an actual number well after looking at the scaled resolution options in my iMac pros display preferences I came upon this number here 3200 by 1800 what's interesting about that is if you multiply it by 2 you get roughly 6k resolution which will be 6400 by 3600 so since the so called Retina version of this resolution is already present in the 5k iMac at 3200 by 1800 it's a possibility that 6400 by 3600 could represent the native resolution of the upcoming professional display with the default resolution of course being that 3200 by 1800 so there would be two times exact pixel doubled retina mode for that upcoming display which would be a lot more resolution when compared to the 2560 by 1440 default resolution of the 5k iMac so 6400 by 3600 that is a lot of pixels let's see how that compares to a 5k display and you can see that a 5k 50 120 by 2880 display fits nicely inside a 6k 6400 by 3600 display but now let's compare UHD 4k you could see that 3840 by 2160 display definitely has lots of room to spare inside that 6k footprint here's 1080p you can see it's even greater actually you can fit nine different full instances of 1080p within a 6k display with room left over that is crazy right but let's talk about some real-world scenarios like editing 4k video and Final Cut bro right now on a 50 120 by 2880 display this is how fully 100% zoomed in 4k video looks like on the interface you have just that little bit of space left over for the Final Cut Pro 10 interface so you see the timeline you see the browser you see the transitions and things like that but there's not really that much room to navigate the timeline there's not any room for the inspector at all if you wanted to open that up you would go less than 100 percent 4k as you can see there so editing 4k video when you have it viewed at a hundred percent just isn't a very ideal editing workspace it's doable but it's not very appealing now let's do the same thing with a 6k display let's simulate how much extra real estate you would have thin so here is a 4k video at a hundred percent notice how much more real estate there is on screen with a 6k display and actually we're just gonna run that same resolution here on our 5k iMac and you can see a whole lot more space you have room for the inspector for the timeline for the browser for all your transitions and you still have that full 100% zoomed in 4k video displayed at the same time so it makes a huge difference now again just to reiterate we're not saying 100% for sure that this will be the native resolution of the upcoming professional mac display however it seems likely seems possible this represents roughly a 44 percent increase in resolution over the current 5k displays that Apple ships this is roughly 23 just a little over 23 million pixels versus a little less than 15 million pixels so that's a substantial increase in resolution compared to 5k really all the math kind of squares up however we still can't say for sure it will have to wait and see so the next most important piece of information that we can take from this report is the size of the panel qual reports that this will be a thirty one point six inch display which is obviously a pretty big difference when compared to the 27-inch display in the 5k I in fact the 31.6 inch display would actually be larger than the 5k iMac including its bezels so this is a significant increase in real estate so what might we take from that well obviously the bezels aren't gonna be as large as the 5k iMac they're probably extremely thin bezels maybe even bezel free although I doubt Apple goes that far but they will no doubt be very very thin bezels so that means that from a bezel in screen perspective it should roughly maintain the same footprint of a 5k iMac yet with the larger display and a whole lot more resolution so is there anything else we can take from close rapport well he does say this he does say that this upcoming display will have outstanding picture quality thanks to a mini LED like backlight design so this essentially means that regions of the backlight can be turned on or off unlike current Mac displays in other words if you turn a backlight off in a region you get an effect similar to true black OLED this results in much improved contrast ratios when compared to current generation Mac displays of course there could be other potential benefits a more precise backlight design thinner more energy-efficient etc and really when you think about it is sort of makes sense Apple has long been at the forefront of consumer display technology you think about Retina displays back with the iPhone 4 you think about the 5k iMac you think about technologies like true tone and promotion so I am very excited to see what this new display is gonna be like when it's all said and done but there are still quite a few things we still don't know and two of them definitely stand out number one cost how much will this thing cost I think it's going to be quite expensive are we talking about three thousand or five thousand dollars who knows and then we also have the i/o one of the things about the Thunderbolt display that was really appealing was the amount of i/o but given the immense amount of bandwidth that will be required by the display connection it'll be interesting to see what type of i/o or what solution Apple employs for connecting to external devices directly from the display so indeed there's still a lot that we don't yet know about this display and it's probably unlikely that our getting details are going to leak about this display however we may still learn more things from the supply chain so stay tuned a 9 to 5 Mac of course for updates on that but with everything that we know thus far the timetable of release the 6k resolution the 31 point 6 inch display panel the mini LED inspired backlight does this sound like a display that you like to use what would you be willing to pay for it let me know down below in the comment section and if you're a professional user also please feel free to comment let me know your thoughts on what we know thus far of course we will be back with future episodes of back to the Mac discussing other plans that Apple has in store for 2019 hardware wise and a lot of other stuff as well also it wouldn't be a back to the Mac episode without a giveaway yes we are giving away the cow digit T for 32 gigabyte version which retails for over $1500 if you want to enter to win follow nine to five Mac on Instagram like the posts related to this episode of back to the Mac and leave a commet well then select a winner at random next Tuesday so ladies and gents boys and girls thanks for watching this latest episode of back to the Mac stay tuned for additional episodes in the near future and also hit that subscribe and like button if you appreciated this video and let me know what you guys think down below in the comments this is Jeff with the nine-to-five Mac\n"