Overall, very few people would consider buying a monitor for $5000. But I expect to see third party vesa brackets for much less, or third party stands that work with the Apple monitor. The $200 vesa bracket is truly anti-consumer. So it's not like you're in the market for a $5000 monitor to begin with. For regular people, a good monitor can be found for several hundred bucks, maybe $1000 if you want the 'best' consumer grade monitor. Even with the $999 stand, this monitor costs less. Some say that the performance competes with monitors that cost over $10k~20k. I can't really defend this monitor stand (and the VESA mount I can't defend even more) but it's very hard to make that comparison.Īnd you have to consider these things too:

One's a material waste of money and the other is heinous and vile. Maybe it's the cautious side of me, but you really should be careful making the argument of comparing a ridiculously overpriced monitor stand to a serious crime.

(or the much cheaper third party alternatives) This stand is frankly just the latest Apple attempt to fuck over their customers who have more money than brain.īecause anyone who is even remotely smart, regardless of how much they make/can afford, will just get the VESA adapter + a monitor arm. cost to show that Apple really just want all of the money and they know their customers are crazy/fanatic enough to fork it over. Just the fact that they require a separate, costly, adapter if you want to use a VESA mount instead of simply making their monitors VESA compatible from the get go. You could actually pay a company that does CNC work professionally, to build you a custom stand with engraving on it and what not, for cheaper. Unless that stand somehow has magic imbued in it that increase the power of your mac, then it's literally just a hunk of metal that is shaped in the form of a stand that they are charging $1k USD for it. but there are actually some people out there defending those scumbags, so it fits) (insane comparison for an insanely overpriced product. It's simply not something any sane person could defend, regardless of how it is perceived. That's like saying 'defend this child molester's rights to approach children', you just can't.

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