I'm pretty worried about this. I would've happily paid the extra $1000, and I'm going to be pissed if that upgrade is introduced so quickly.
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Apple Studio Display - Owners Thread
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same here, for that reason I'll hold the purchase and just buy the mac studio, monitor next, maybe I'll buy a $549 LG or Dell.
Good call. I purposefully timed my order from Apple to come late May so that I'll be in my return period when WWDC happens... but a big part of me is so tempted to just let Best Buy ship me one next week. Then I'd force myself to save some $$$, but also might not be as completely happy and satisfied with the product as I would be with a mini-LED version.
I'm thinking that the XDR version will be priced out of the stratosphere of the current model - that's the only way it makes sense to have a launch in such close proximity to the original, if there's very little overlap in the intended market and price range. I'm thinking it's going to be $4k+. BUT then again I don't know how they can justify a $2400 mini-LED premium when the iPad Pro / MacBook Pro each got it with a measly $100-$300 bump. Ugh, I don't know.
Can Thunderbolt 4 handle 5k ProMotion?
I thought the max bandwidth for Thunderbolt 4 was 8k @ 60 hz.
i'm still not fully decided, but i just sold my ultrafine 5k and i don't totally wanna go back to the same panel in a nicer housing. a youtube vid of the pro xdr and the studio display side by side with a black image on the screens definitely swayed me towards mini-led, but even if i don't get it there will surely be a glut of studio displays hitting ebay the day the studio display pro is released so really i can't lose...
it is kinda crazy to pay an extra hypothetical grand for a slightly nicer image but i feel like i would get a big kick out of it and i do edit videos
I don't live in USA right now, so return stuff is impossible for me, so I need be totally sure of my purchase, also I'm not and old person but "I don't have more time for shitttt" lol, that means: I don't want buy something to change it soon or later, so I hope buy the studio and an apple monitor to use it for a good amount of years by example: I'm working right now a late 2013 macbook pro, I spend $2K on, so 9 years ($222 per year) a good value, I expect the same of this new studio combo.
First impressions on my Studio Display which arrived today (Australia):
- Basic display is 100% equivalent to the LG Ultrafine 5K display I replaced. No visible difference.
- Overall feel of the design is clean and sturdy (unlike the Ultrafine)
- Basic unadjustable stand height is luckily about the right height for me so it works. It was nice to have the capability on the Ultrafine but I guess that contributed to the wobbliness.
- The speakers are very good compared to other built-in display speakers, nice spatial presence but very much lacking in low end. They're 30% as good as my professional monitoring speakers that I use to make music, but it will be nice to have as an alternative just to try my mixes on. However, having them BOTH on at the same time (by configuring them as a multi-output device) sounds absolutely amazing (unfortunately it makes controlling the volume difficult). Sigh.
- The camera is very disappointing. I really had my hopes up that it would replace my Logitech 4K Brio but no chance. First of all quite grainy. Also there appears to be NO WAY TO ADJUST THE SETTINGS so it just does it's own level adjustments whenever it feels like it, making it USELESS FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING IF YOU USE A GREEN SCREEN (as I do).
So now I still have a 3rd-party webcam sitting on top of my fancy new monitor :-/
I hope you're both right, but that really doesn't seem to be the case.
3:05 onwards.
Interesting point. Considering Tim Cook's supply chain wizardry, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some truth to what you're saying.
I too am very curious to see how your hypothesis stands up with time.
The black circle on the back of the display kinda looks like the flush plugs on the old cinema displays, but I just tried to pull it out and it won't budge, so it may be locked in (unless there's some special trick).
Rarely am I this glad to be proven wrong. Thanks for posting that!
An undetachable power cable would have been truly mindnumbing!
Maybe they just forgot to put the glue on Nilay's plug.
/sI'm really happy about it, too. I do wonder why everyone else seems to think it's not detachable.
So the power cord is removable... You can get the stands swapped at Apple Stores...
Have ordered one for pickup today, will see how I get on with the normal stand as I quite like the minimalist look and want to see how that goes compared to my usual Vesa mount.
Have ordered one for pickup today, will see how I get on with the normal stand as I quite like the minimalist look and want to see how that goes compared to my usual Vesa mount.
Maybe they just forgot to put the glue on Nilay's plug.
I'm really happy about it, too. I do wonder why everyone else seems to think it's not detachable.
I think it's probably so tightly attached that most people with review units are too apprehensive to pull on it hard enough for fear of Tim waking them up at 4 am with a scythe in his hand.
That, plus the fact that it actually does look like its fixed into the device. You can just look at the iMac's cable and instantly tell that it's removable, but that's definitely not the case here.
Do ask them at the store if swapping out the stand will just cost you the price of the new stand, or if you have to pay an additional fee for the actual swapping procedure!
Its been mentioned in 2 or 3 reviews/previews over the last few days. No mention of how it works/costs yet.
I'll ask, but I doubt the sales people will know and will probably need an appointment to talk to the Genius techs. Given its day one and there only seems to be the standard one available, I'd be surprised if anyone knows yet! I bet one of the tech journalists finds out pretty quickly.
This is the best review I've read today by far:
Thanks for posting this! Great review. Will keep my order
Just started using my new Apple Studio display – bought from the local Apple Store this morning with no trouble.
Pro tip (or tip for idiots): the power cord is in a package attached to the back of the screen. It tooks me *ages* to find it. Nearly destroyed the packaging hunting for the damn thing, while the display was sat happily on my desk – back to the wall, cord hidden.
I had a Dell Ultrasharp @ 1440p before, so this is a nice step up. The display is basically an iMac display and looks identical to me. Perhaps stuff like 120MHz / HDR would be nice but don’t really bother me for my use.
Sound is very good, but not truly excellent.
Webcam is hilariously bad as others have noted. But – it does seem to be a software issue. When there’s lots of movement, or e.g. if you switch portrait mode on and off quickly, the picture pixellates badly – it’s as though the connection between camera and computer is really low bandwidth, rather than anything wrong with the camera itself. So, fixable I hope, but doesn’t bother me that much as I don’t have to use it very often.
Very grateful that Centre Stage can be turned off – why would I want a camera panning round to show the mess either side of me? ?
Main complaint, as I’m fairly tall, is that it’s not high enough. I went for the basic tilt stand. The better stand with the height adjustment would have been perfect, but I really can’t justify the extra cost for that, I’d rather just stick a book under the thing.
So, overall good, but doesn’t quite justify the price tag. If the fully adjustable stand had been sold on all models, for the price of the base model, that would have been a fair deal in my opinion.
And hopefully the camera will be fixed soon.
Pro tip (or tip for idiots): the power cord is in a package attached to the back of the screen. It tooks me *ages* to find it. Nearly destroyed the packaging hunting for the damn thing, while the display was sat happily on my desk – back to the wall, cord hidden.
I had a Dell Ultrasharp @ 1440p before, so this is a nice step up. The display is basically an iMac display and looks identical to me. Perhaps stuff like 120MHz / HDR would be nice but don’t really bother me for my use.
Sound is very good, but not truly excellent.
Webcam is hilariously bad as others have noted. But – it does seem to be a software issue. When there’s lots of movement, or e.g. if you switch portrait mode on and off quickly, the picture pixellates badly – it’s as though the connection between camera and computer is really low bandwidth, rather than anything wrong with the camera itself. So, fixable I hope, but doesn’t bother me that much as I don’t have to use it very often.
Very grateful that Centre Stage can be turned off – why would I want a camera panning round to show the mess either side of me? ?
Main complaint, as I’m fairly tall, is that it’s not high enough. I went for the basic tilt stand. The better stand with the height adjustment would have been perfect, but I really can’t justify the extra cost for that, I’d rather just stick a book under the thing.
So, overall good, but doesn’t quite justify the price tag. If the fully adjustable stand had been sold on all models, for the price of the base model, that would have been a fair deal in my opinion.
And hopefully the camera will be fixed soon.
Fair. Hoping for good news eventually, I honestly feel like Apple sort of botched the studio display launch a tiny bit trying to keep that typical mystique instead of being more straightforward about all its pros. This is definitely a product that needs to be worth every dollar and can't afford to be vastly overpriced in the consumer's eye.
Damn...I mean, I'm glad you're happy with your purchase but I would personally be absolutely livid if I had to prop up my brand new $1600 monitor with a freaking book like I used to with my laptop in college ?
anybody with a Studio Display: have a go with some surround-audio on YT. there's some really impressive magic trickery going on with the speakers: