Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

Post by themacguffinman » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

sbrother wrote: post #47

geerlingguy wrote: post #10

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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…

Post by jsheard » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 4:51 PM UTC

praseodym wrote: post #76

densh wrote: post #13

I might be the only one, but it's still to this date (and dating all the way back to 2014 with the first iMac 5k display) Apple is the only company that truly gets HIDPI desktop displays with high quality gloss and 200+ ppi at screen this large. In the meantime popular and widely sold gaming screens with matte blur filters and mediocre ppi give me headache and eye fatigue after a few hours of use. Prior generation St…

The hardware is great, but the software is lacking. macOS only supports resolution-based scaling which makes anything but the default 200% pixel scaling mode look bad. For example, with a 27" 4K display many users will want to use 150% or 175% scaling to get enough real estate, but the image will look blurry because macOS renders at a higher resolution and then downscales to the 4K resolution of the screen. Both Wind…

Post by strongpigeon » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

realityking wrote: post #75

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #52

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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.

Post by jhickok » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

earthnail wrote: post #81

The only monitor on the market of this size and resolution that I am aware of that has really high brightness and works well when I work outside on the terrace. Really glad Apple is building it.

Post by adamesque » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

SamuelAdams wrote: post #99

Does this still not support multiple inputs / devices?