For a bit over a year, Apple has been shipping its 5K iMac with a 27" retina display; last month they added their second-gen product in that line.
A couple weeks ago, I spotted the HP Envy model 34-a010 which has a 34" monitor (funny aspect ratio, 3440x1440) and an NVIDIA graphics chip which probably works out-of-the-box with Ubuntu and other distros. But at $1700 for either of these two products, Apple's got by far the better hardware specs. What's happening in the graphics-display industry? Suddenly Linux on the desktop is losing the price competition, for probably the first time ever since I started using it in 1992. There's an all-out price/specs war going on among the panel manufacturers, and there just doesn't seem to be a way I can plunk down $1500 to $2500 for a new Linux-based computer with turn-key 4K+ 120Hz graphics. Should I bite the bullet and go Apple, or wait a while longer for Linux to catch up? Have any of you built a DIY 4K display system that you're happy with, yet? Life's too short to spend a weekend fiddling with X11 display settings, swapping hardware, and returning stuff to Amazon. -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
