Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

On 12/3/24 5:07 PM, Joel wrote:

-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
 

I wouldn't have anticipated using 4K when I got the main parts.

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Especially when one is harping about 'future proofing', why wouldn't one
be so unprepared in 2021 for supporting 4K monitors?
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Because 4K wasn't a new standard: it first came out 2001, and was in the
consumer market by 2013.  So by 2021, 4K displays were pretty
commonplace (even Apple had had them in iMacs for 7 years) and 'gamer'
ones had already dropped to just $500 ('regular' ones were even less):

  I paid $200 for mine.  It's two years old.  It was an impulse buy when
my old monitor was dying.

The cheaper it was, the less justification there was to have not anticipated and planned for it to be a candidate replacement within the expected lifespan of the PC.
For example, that "overpriced" 2022 Studio that you've enjoyed complaining about can run up to four 6K's out of the box.
-hh