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Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on
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On 12/3/24 1:46 PM, Joel wrote:
> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I couldn't
>>> anticipate the CPU video so poorly handling 4K, but when it did, I
>>> knew the solution.  Big F'ing deal.
>>
>> You could have researched it.
> 
> I wouldn't have anticipated using 4K when I got the main parts.

Especially when one is harping about 'future proofing', why wouldn't one 
be so unprepared in 2021 for supporting 4K monitors?

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):

<https://www.cgmagonline.com/review/hardware/asus-rog-strix-xg27aq-monitor-review/>


-hh