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hey what is up guys I'm conveyed to be here and when Apple announced the new MacBook Pros they also pretty much killed all hopes for another cinema display when they dropped this alongside it the new LG 5k ultra fine display and then they said they'd be selling alongside the new Macs in the Apple store okay we want to give it a chance so is this if I just cover up the LG logo is this thing a good enough replacement for the Apple Cinema Display legacy is this good enough well I'll be using it for a couple weeks and my answer is it depends on who you are let me explain so I'm coming from a pair of aces 32 inch 4k monitors I've always been a dual monitor person and this LG 5k display is awesome I mean it's objectively undeniably awesome it's a smaller 27-inch display at 5k so 50 120 by 28 80 which gives you about 218 pixels per inch which is awesome for a desktop display and it also has the wider p-3 color gamut so colors really pop and 500 nits of brightness so it's vivid contrast II and clear there's a 1201 contrast ratio so it's just obviously a really great looking panel that's what you like to see the expects on the site also say it's anti glare but the Asus was way more math than this this is much more glossy so if you position yourself near Windows you'll have to know where the lights are going to be behind you but once you get used to that that's pretty much fun and then the actual hardware around the monitor itself is pretty good I mean some people have said it's not the prettiest thing in the world but you got a height-adjustable stand here it's tilted just about - one thing it doesn't do is swivel I think it would have been super easy to put a swivel right here in the base but it doesn't do that and then you can see the bezels obviously some people been talking about how it's not the prettiest thing in the world I'd agree it's got a little bit of a bigger forehead than a chin but to be honest I've barely noticed that after like a week of using the monitors you're not really looking at the bezels anymore after like a couple of days but the larger top bezel does also hold the webcam and microphone which are also actually pretty good and this guy also has speakers right on the bottom the grills on the bottom - they're downward-facing big sound just like the IMAX speakers is pretty comparable to that the overall still pretty well I mean it's not metal like you see the exposed metal on the iMac you get metal down here on the stand but once you get into the plastic of the tops it doesn't quite feel the same but you're not really paying that much attention to that one that you look so good the rest can be kind of forgiven so the other thing is this monitor is also made for Mac they're selling alongside the Macs it's marketed next to the MacBook Pro what does that mean for it well first of all there are no buttons anywhere on the outside of this thing there's no knobs or anything for turning on or off no power button nothing it all goes through the software in Mac OS 10 so any colors you want to change any resolution you want to adjust any brightness changes they will all happen through the software just because that's the way it works with Mac so there's that and then of course there is the USB type-c the one single Thunderbolt three table that I'm plugging this into my macbook pro with that's a pretty big deal so through this one cable you're getting video going from the computer to the monitor and you're also getting power going back from the monitor to the computer so it's actually charging my macbook pro with the same cable that's doing this video which is pretty awesome it saves you a port you don't have to plug into the wall anymore for the most part that's really convenient and then around the back there's a three port USB type-c hub on back the monitor it's not full Thunderbolt 3 and it's not even fully powered USB 3.1 but it's a couple of solid USB 3 ports for stuff like media card readers webcams etc and this again freeze-up ports on the laptop if you'd normally put say an SD card reader in this laptop you can now put it on the back of the monitor so overall it seems like an ideal package you know it's one laptop one display one cable between them nice and clean and you get way more working area in this glorious 5 klg panel looking good but obviously it's not quite perfect for everyone if you're a person who doesn't have a 2016-2017 MacBook Pro then this is probably not a good pick because even with the right adapter the highest resolution you can get out of this monitor even with a Mac Pro is about 4k with one cable so not ideal it's still going to be a beautiful colorful contrasting monitor but it's only 4k and you'd bought a 5k display you might as well get your money's worth and then number two if you edit video on your laptop which again not a lot of people do but if you're in that category you might not be able to get away with using just the power cable from the monitor here's a fun story I tweeted about already when I was editing video in Final Cut Pro with this MacBook Pro plugged in to the monitor getting battery it says it's charging the whole time and while I'm editing the battery life still decreases from 100% going down while it's still plugged in so I'm plugged in and charging and I get to 85 percent and 75 percent and 50 percent I get all the way to rendering the whole video out and right when the video is done rendering my laptop says it has 4 percent battery even though it's still plugged in and charging obviously that's not a normal use case most people aren't editing heavy high-resolution videos on their MacBook Pros I get it but you should know that this monitor is not delivering necessarily the entire 85 watts of power necessary to keep this thing fully charged it even says 85 watts on the site and when I go into system profiler it says it's getting 85 watts but Dave 2d tested at any tweeted I mean that he tested it and II was getting something more like 60 to 62 watts so again if you're editing with video you're probably gonna have to unplug one of the monitors and plug in the power brick to get your full power again that's not your normal customer if your setup is near a router like within two to three feet of a Wi-Fi router you probably want to temporarily avoid this monitor due to poor shielding there's been reports of flickering and weird non responsiveness and rebooting of the monitor when it's really close to a router now I don't have that problem on the way on the other side over there but if you have a router that's really close to your setup probably going to want to avoid that LG says they're working on updating this version to have improved shielding and they're even okay to retrofit these monitors that don't have good shielding with new ones but until then I just give it a second because that doesn't seem like a very good property to have but even after all of that other than that the monitor the monitor right here is really good it's amazing I wish I could say it's like an Apple logo away from being like the next cinema display but obviously it's not quite there my setup where I'm using is I have two of these attached to the macbook pro that I'm using all three screens full-time and even I've had little blinking problems that a reboot eventually fixed but it's like I shouldn't even be having this problem so I think if you have a MacBook Pro a new MacBook Pro and you just want one monitor to plug in with one cable to sell your desk and just get way more real estate then this is an awesome pick the panel is amazing it's way more pixels it looks fantastic and it is excellent for people who are in that sort of a casual user even though you're buying a MacBook Pro you can still get a lot casually out of this monitor if you fit into any of those buckets of people I described earlier then you may want to hold off on this or maybe look at the 4k version okay overall conclusion is the panel obviously is really good it's beautiful vivid vibrant love it the hardware surround the panel is sort of hit or miss for some people it's alright you know I like the understated design but some people might not like it as much and then the compatibility or just knowing if you fit in those buckets of people I talked about is what's going to decide if you buy this monitor or not so that's pretty much it it's you could say it's ultra fine thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys the next one pace