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Apple Stores Quietly Carrying New LG 23.7-Inch UltraFine Display

Over the past few months, supplies (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/19/apple-stops-selling-4k-lg-ultrafine-display/) of the LG UltraFine 4K and 5K displays have dried up (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/08/5k-lg-ultrafine-display-sold-out/) at Apple's retail and online stores, leading to speculation on the future of Apple-approved displays beyond a rumored ultra high-end 6K display perhaps coming alongside a revamped Mac Pro (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/mac-pro/) later this year.





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As shared by TidBITS (https://tidbits.com/2019/05/20/apple-debuts-lgs-all-new-23-7-inch-ultrafine-display/), however, Apple retail (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-retail/) stores are now quietly carrying a new $700 23.7-inch UltraFine display from LG. TidBITS' Julio Ojeda-Zapata was able to locate the new display in two different <!---->Apple retail<!----> stores, but it is not currently listed in the company's online store.

To my surprise, an employee told me I should consider forgoing the 21.5-inch model. Why? “Because we have a larger LG display for the same price.” Laid out for me on the floor were boxes for the two monitors—including the 23.7-inch version that had seemingly come from nowhere.

At 23.7 inches, the new UltraFine display sits between the original 21.5-inch 4K and 27-inch 5K display, but there is some confusion over the resolution of the display. Ojeda-Zapata claims that it only offers a resolution of 3360x1890, which would not reasonably allow it to serve as a Retina-quality display, but a user manual (PDF) (http://gscs-b2c.lge.com/downloadFile?fileId=3qS98ipf5JZ1uEXW0184FA) for the display indicates that its native resolution is in fact 3840x2160. That's still less than that 4096x2304 resolution of the smaller 21.5-inch UltraFine 4K, but it would at least qualify as an Ultra HD resolution that is typically marketed as being 4K.





Ojeda-Zapata purchased the new display and shares a brief overview of it, noting that it carries the same design as the previous UltraFine 4K/5K displays sold by Apple and offers a pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports and three regular USB-C ports on the rear. The original UltraFine 4K/5K displays only offered a single Thunderbolt 3 port in addition to the three USB-C ports, so the extra Thunderbolt 3 port on the new display allows for daisy-chaining additional Thunderbolt 3 accessories over a single connection.

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