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by rbanffy
3108 days ago
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On your BOM you should not forget a best-in-class 5K 27" monitor. A 4K TV is nice, but it's not on the same price range as the iMac's display. As for the computer, the CPU alone is about US$ 1400. Add PCIe flash storage, RAM, a US$ 800-1000 GPU and you are quickly matching that US$ 5000 range for a regular PC running Linux, even before you add a 5K HDR monitor. |
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While I don't begrudge someone who enjoys a small monitor, for me, usable screen real estate is priority #1. Pixel density is nice, but not at the expense of usable real estate. So I'll take two (or even one!) 40-inch 4K monitors running at 100% UI zoom over a small 5K monitor running at 250% UI zoom.
I'm not sure why you mentioned televisions. The displays I bought in 2015 are Philips BDM4065UC monitors [1], which clocked in at $700 a piece in 2015.
> As for the computer, the CPU alone is about US$ 1400. Add PCIe flash storage, RAM, a US$ 800-1000 GPU and you are quickly matching that US$ 5000 range for a regular PC running Linux, even before you add a 5K HDR monitor.
In 2015, I was able to build out a 32 HT core dual Xeon E5v3 with 128 GB of ECC DDR4, an Intel NVMe SSD, a Samsung SATA SSD, and a 9-series nVidia GPU for ~$3,500. The two 4K monitors brought the grand total very close to $5K.
Today, $5K should get you the same along with some mix of more cores, faster clock rates, a 10-series nVidia GPU, or possibly even an Optane SSD.
I suspect that small 5K monitor Apple is using is a major cost driver. It's a shame it's permanently affixed to the computer and not optional.
[1] https://www.philips.com.au/c-p/BDM4065UC_75/brilliance-led-b...