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Apple is 'Ramping Up' Work on a New Studio Display

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Apple is "ramping up" work on a new Studio Display, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

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In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the new Studio Display "should arrive by 2026," alongside Macs with M5 chips.

The new Studio Display will have a similar design as the current model, including a 27-inch screen size, according to Gurman.

The new display is codenamed J427 within Apple, he added.

Gurman did not reveal any new features or changes planned for the next Studio Display. Last week, however, display industry analyst Ross Young said Apple was developing a new 27-inch display with mini-LEDs that could launch in late 2025 or early 2026. Young believes this display could be a new Studio Display with mini-LED backlighting.

Mini-LED technology would provide benefits such as increased brightness and higher contrast ratio compared to the current Studio Display with LEDs.

Apple released the Studio Display in March 2022, alongside the Mac Studio. It has a 5K resolution, a 60Hz refresh rate, up to 600 nits brightness, a camera and speakers, one Thunderbolt 3 port, and three USB-C ports. U.S. pricing starts at $1,599.

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I am not updating mine until it is >27", at least mini-LED (prefer OLED) and 120hz

90hz and 27" is a no go.

Hopefully Apple keeps the old one around at a cheaper cost for people since they refuse to make a larger consumer iMac.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
This shouldn't take this long to swap in new tech to a "similar design" at the same "27 inch size"
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Agreed - by 2026 there will be more lower-priced competition (with possibly better specs) that people will have already purchased. A new ASD at the same (or higher) price will be a niche purchase for folks with big $$.
 
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This shouldn't take this long to swap in new tech to a "similar design" at the same "27 inch size"
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I thought they would have this out at the same time as the M4 Studio. I hope the price doesn't go up further from the existing Studio Display, otherwise I may just pick up a used Studio Display from exiting owners upgrading to the latest and greatest.
 
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I am already using two 32” LG TB monitors; IPS, 4K, and 60Hz. When a >32”, TB, 6K monitor comes out, I’ll think about it…
 
Biro said:
I’m fine with this - as long as Apple doesn’t decide the old ASD should be made obsolete and block it from working with new Macs going forward
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I don't think they will. People were hating on that BenQ screen a few days ago, because “Apple guarantees that the Studio Display will keep working with new Macs going forward”. So it seems pretty clear to me what Apple's stance is.
 
Vistaus said:
I don't think they will. People were hating on that BenQ screen a few days ago, because “Apple guarantees that the Studio Display will keep working with new Macs going forward”. So it seems pretty clear to me what Apple's stance is.
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Might want to locate that guarantee in writing on Apple.com vs. trusting the assurances of fans. About a decade ago, fans made passionate assurances that Fusion drives would be fine, outlasting the Macs in which they were inserted. Do a search for fusion drives today and find all those issues with dead/dying SSD portions. Where are those guarantors now?

Or more recently within the last 12 months: "8GB RAM is enough for pretty much everyone", "8GB is plenty", etc... right up until Apple moved on to 16GB and none of them ripped Apple for "forcing too much RAM" into Macs, and no longer push the 8GB message now.

In short: fans work for free to help sell whatever Apple offers now, sometimes saying or strongly implying things not backed by Apple themselves to try to convince fellow consumers to buy current offerings. However, they won't be there to cover anything they guarantee should reality be different than whatever was spun. And fan salespeople will flip/evolve their stances as fast as Apple does.

The tech guts of ASD is basically iDevice technology which magically goes "long in tooth" within just a few years, particularly just after software updates. Would Apple keep supporting this one iDevice core for as long as a monitor can last (which can be 10-15 years- some people are still using Apples FORMER monitors discontinued about a decade or more ago)... or treat it more like how long one could use the very same monitor in iMac 27" when the tech guts aged out?

Caveat emptor. I hope Apple builds a fantastic new ASD2. But again, plenty of fish in this sea: all shapes, all sizes, resolutions above and below 5K, etc... and not all of them demand 46.9% average margin.
 
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