Studio Display

Exactly. I have two purchased in 2011, still work beautifully 15 years later, just a tad dimmer. One of them is paired as a secondary with a 2022 Studio Display.

For $3000+ they might as well throw it in there. The Studio display in general is super overengineered if you watched the teardown, just like the $999 Pro Stand hinge mechanism. I guess that's what Apple does on their high end products when they aren't held back by a specific price point

Hot take, but the loudest complainers of every iteration of the Studio Display are the ones who have to try really hard to justify the purchase and don't actually own or use one daily. I actually own a Studio Display and use it every day for work as a designer, personal usage and light gaming. Now g

Something I’m interested in from Apple, considering how old the Studio Display is.

nobody likes to publish this, unfortunately. it is very hard to find out if displays are actually native bit depths. a professional display should be 10bit and for the price, studio display is it (it needs it for HD). i think in your case it is 10bit+dithering for 12bit, switch that off. do not get

Aren’t they insanely expensive? Compared to what? I paid more for my iPhone that I will only keep for 3 years than i did for my Studio Display that I will have for 10+ years. I’ve never understood the attraction compared to just another far cheaper monitor. Same as buying the higher quality, more ex

End of an era. According to Wikipedia, iPad is the last product they announced with an "i" prefix. This was back in 2010. I doubt they'll ever release a new "i" product again that isn't an accessory to an already existing "i" product. It's unfortunate because it really was such good branding. Now th

Yeah it's pretty user-hostile. I think the idea is that you buy a new device if you want the VESA mount. I'm sure they sold several hundred extra Studio Displays for just this reason.

The Apple Studio Display runs circles around those in terms of overall build quality, display quality, audio quality, and so on.

I think it was the right choice for me, but I don't think it's worth the price. Or at least, I wouldn't list "bang per buck" as a feature. I wanted it because it reportedly used the same panel as my 5k imac, so I knew what I was getting. But the downside to that is that in 2025, we're still paying "