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Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

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You should try some of the newer OLED panels. They're all glossy and look really good.

Text sucks in oled displays. 200 ppi is not enough to make it look decent. OLED smartphones have much higher ppi to deal with this.

4k OLED text is great.

Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

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You should try some of the newer OLED panels. They're all glossy and look really good.

Text sucks in oled displays. 200 ppi is not enough to make it look decent. OLED smartphones have much higher ppi to deal with this.

Upcoming OLED panels are switching to vertical RGB stripe, similar to LCDs, which should fix the remaining text issues.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/lg-display-reveals-wor...

Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

#93
So it seems the new Studio Display XDR is the only display on the market that offers:

- 5k resolution at HIDPI (27inch)

- 120hz refresh rate

- TB5 and single cable connectivity.

There are a couple of other HIDPI displays at 5k with 120hz refresh rate but they don't do TB5.

Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

#95
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Too small… I got used to my 4K Philips OLED 42" that I hung directly on the wall in front of my desk (no stand at all)… USB-C cable also charges the MacBook. This size is so good to work with; so much screen estate.

42 inches! thats a lot of viewing area.

Indeed! The big monitor is about 1m from me, the median a bit below my eyes. The laptop on which I type on sits in-between and the two screens align almost perfectly (optically). This setup works well for me and I feel it’s very ergonomic. That's why I can't go back to tiny (<32") screens anymore.

Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

#96
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I could never get my two ASUS displays work at anything but 60Hz

My other setup has an ASUS PA278CGV as a secondary monitor and the MBP hooked up to it drives it at 144hz no problem. Make sure your dock, dongle, and/or cables aren’t bottlenecks.

> Make sure your dock, dongle, and/or cables aren’t bottlenecks.

I've switched docks, dongles, cables, to no avail.

Support also varies a lot between M chips, and Thunderbolt often doesn't support high refresh rates https://support.apple.com/en-us/101571

I can't remember now the actual setup I had, sadly

Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

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Almost certainly due to bandwidth limitations on older versions of Thunderbolt. Full bit depth HDR 5k @ 120hz requires some absurd data thoughput.

I don’t think so. My M3 Pro is on the list as supporting 120 hz but it only has Thunderbolt 4. Also the base M4 doesn’t habe Thunderbolt 5 and it support 120 hz.

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Re: Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

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Regular consumers probably don't buy these displays in bulk, when you can get very nice displays for less than half the price that are 98% the same on specs. So targeting checkbox-compliance for places like hospital systems is probably an easy win to generating / keeping some long term contracts.

> you can get very nice displays for less than half the price that are 98% the same on specs. Can you recommend any displays with PPI and brightness equivalent to the studio display, with 120Hz+ refresh rates? I was waiting for this announcement to buy a studio display because I thought they might bring 120Hz to the base model, but $3300 is a lot to spend on a single display. I have an original studio display and a h…

The price point is super painful. 2k would have been bad enough but I would have considered it. It’s a no go at $3,300 for me.
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