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It’s a fraction of what most Apple customers are used to.

The freakin stand alone is $1300 CAD.

What planet are those people on? That's Gucci bag territory. They can take their res and shove it, that's almost NINE GRAND (granted, Canadian pesos) for a freakin display! Who is this for, just Pixar employees?

It's a halo status symbol for price insensitive people. Lamborghini makes compromised overpriced vehicles but they have a market.

And how much do you think the Humanscale mount costs that you would otherwise use? The Pro Display XDR is too heavy for a $30 Amazon Basics mounting arm or anything similarly cheap.

The Pro Display XDR is 7.48 kg and a $199 Ergotron LX Pro is rated up to 10 kg, so that's a fifth of the Apple stand's price.

And looking at Amazon.de listings, it's definitely possible to buy a cheap arm that's good for 7.5 kg. A "suptek Monitor Mount" is good for 10 kg according to the listing: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0833NQ8CR

If you’re suggesting the only way to mount a display of that weight drives you into that price territory, that’s just ridiculous.

There’s huge monitors from other companies that come with mounts that handle more weight than that. Granted, it’s not some art deco CNC monstrosity.

I think the sibling comment nailed it: this is just a status symbol.

> The freakin stand alone is $1300 CAD.

We're not just talking about Apple's stand-alone display, but even their laptops are high-ppi. 13" M4 Apple Air:

> 13.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology;2 2560-by-1664 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch

* https://www.apple.com/ca/macbook-air/specs/

In terms of pixel count it's between Apple's 5k and 6k monitors, and its pricing is between the two. It's also far lower pixel density. So, not really.

I'm an Apple customer and I'm used to 109 PPI. I imagine it's not that rare for Apple customers to buy monitors not made by Apple.

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