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Apple monitor new11/21/2023 (Watching TV on it at night is a bit disappointing. And I daresay it will have some longevity to it, especially if you view it as a work device more than a TV screen. It doesn’t support high-dynamic-range (HDR) content or local dimming, which is disappointing at the price – the 34-inch Alienware monitor we reviewed a few weeks ago supports HDR and, being OLED, has extremely local dimming, and it’s cheaper than the Studio Display – but it does offer excellent image quality for work and reasonably decent image quality for watching videos during the day. (Indeed, if your eyes age as poorly as mine have, the Studio Display’s screen is only going to get more excessively sharp with time.) The screen, which has a sharpness of 218 pixels per inch, is as sharp as you will ever need. The screen and the sound system both work well with Windows, and the built-in webcam worked well enough, with one caveat I’ll get into shortly. Our biggest concern, that its all-in-one features would become useless should you ever need to connect it to a Windows PC rather than a Mac, mostly proved to be unfounded. In our tests, the Studio Display has mostly lived up to that hope. Mac mini, keyboard, mouse and trackpad sold separately. It’s Apple setting out to do with all-in-ones something we’ve wished someone would do for ages, the same thing that Framework is setting out to do with laptops: build computers you can keep for a decade or more, only replacing the parts that actually grow old. You buy the Studio Display and pair it with, say, a Mac mini, and at the cost of only a little more desk clutter you have a device you can upgrade as often as you need to, for as little as $1000 per upgrade.Īnyway, that’s the hope, and that’s what we like about the Studio Display. Modular iMacs, on the other hand, have most of the cable-free appeal of iMacs, with none of the downside. The sound system is as clear and as loud as you will ever need, though who’s to say you won’t be deaf as a post in 15 years. IMacs, or indeed any all-in-one computers, have the advantage of being easy to set up and fairly clutter-free to use, but the distinct disadvantage of turning holus-bolus, screen and all, into landfill the moment their CPU, GPU, memory and storage specs are no longer up to snuff. So, it’s best not to think about it as just a screen, and instead think about the Studio Display the way we do, as the eternal half of a modular iMac. Adding a height-adjustable stand takes the price to $3099, and adding an anti-glare coating (which is what we have on the model we’re reviewing) takes the price as high as $3599. Indeed, $2499 is just the starting price for the Studio Display. Yes, you can think of it as merely a computer monitor, in which case you’ll probably think of it as a fairly expensive monitor, compared to what else is out there.īring Your Own Computer: the Studio Display, left, is like an all-in-one iMac, without the Mac bit.įor the $2499 Apple wants for this 27-inch, 5120-by-2880 pixels screen, you can get, say, an insanely wide (though only half as sharp) 49-inch 5120-by-1440 pixel screen from Dell, with enough change left over to buy a decent USB webcam and some speakers. The Studio Display, you see, may well mark the beginning of a shift in computers, one which will make them a little more affordable, more upgradeable, and more environmentally sustainable in the long term. Or it might be something else that has got the Lab staff’s heart racing, something to do with what this particular computer monitor might represent in the history of computer design. Just another display, or a move to a new, more sustainable era? It might be that we’re excited by the Studio Display because it’s so very pretty, and reminds us of Apple’s iMac, the best all-in-one computer ever made. It is, after all, just a computer monitor, albeit a computer monitor with a sharp, 5K screen, a built-in webcam that tracks your motion, a high-quality microphone, and the best set of built-in speakers we’ve ever heard. I don’t exactly know why we’re so excited about having Apple’s new Studio Display here in the Digital Life Labs.
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