Wow! After the update mine has upgraded to a vesa mount! I’m impressed!
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Apple Releases Fifth Studio Display 17 Firmware Beta
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It's gotten updates, you just don't have that version. Monitors throughout history all have gotten updates, they just happened on the manufacturing line so you never got the fixes. Monitor updates are absolutely nothing new.
Even the cinema displays from over a decade ago would get updates via the OS.
What camera issues would those be? I actually own a Studio Display used with my Mac Studio Max. I find no such issues and the camera performs well, especially on FaceTime and Zoom.
Agree, it’s a very pleasant monitor for everyday use… I have 4 of them. Also if I want to upgrade mi mac I don’t have to buy the whole set (like with the iMac), I just swap the CPU, mac mini, Mac Studio o any laptop and you are ready to go. It’s a great product.
on my work calls, typically over meet, people comment positively on center stage; they have never mentioned camera resolution or quality.. its compressed and downscaled after all.. I just wish I could figure out how to choose the camera since I have two.
The Studio Display software team is probably a fractionalized unit of a person.
Truly love re-litigating this stuff every ASD topic.
I also love people comping a 5K display to a 4K display in every ASD topic too.
It slaps.
I still think it was a missed opportunity for this to not run tvOS. As others have pointed out, it has no wireless chip. But, it would have been a great standalone monitor for FaceTime, among other things. Mind you, a very expensive one.
I guess this makes less sense when you consider you can get a slightly smaller iMac for less… which includes a whole computer… 🤔
I guess this makes less sense when you consider you can get a slightly smaller iMac for less… which includes a whole computer… 🤔
I almost envy these people. I’d rather use a 1440p 27” display than a 4k one at that size.
Samsung costs the same...technically more cus the studio display is always on sale
It's such a great experience using it. I don't use the webcam, but I can sideload my phone if needed, but I have never used it. The speaker system delivers a rich full-depth sound, and the screen is perfect. The only downside is switching USB-C cables between Mac and work PCs. I wish a KVM or hub could be used with it.
I don't understand why someone would think they can know how good or bad a product is when they never used it personally.
How are they supposed to combine the updates when it is 2 different pieces of hardware?
Almost every post-CRT monitor I've ever had (yes, including LG), has had least one or two software bugs. And in every case they were never fixed, because you literally can't update the firmware on them, the only way to get a newer revision of the firmware is to literally to throw away the monitor and buy a new one that was manufactured at a later date.
While Apple's update frequency is definitely bordering on the absurd, making fun of a monitor for having software updates at all is pretty shortsighted and ignorant.
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Apple already bundles firmware updates for first-party accessories with macOS (and iOS).
Absolutely love my LG 5K. I've owned two due to working at different locations and not wanting to lug a monitor around with me. Also had the LG 4K but got rid of that awhile back when I upgraded my second monitor to the 5K. I now don't need to travel, have gone back to just a single LG 5K which also happens to be the first one I purchased. It's done over 6 years of service, used daily for many, many long hours and I'm finally retiring it for an Apple Studio Display because I'm starting to get ghosting around the edges of the monitor.
When I first purchased the monitor it had some significant docking issues with my MacBook and I would often need to restart the machine to get it to connect properly. This was fixed in a firmware upgrade that LG pushed out. Since then I've not experienced any issue that I believed could be addressed with a firmware upgrade, the monitor has just worked flawlessly.
Will be sad to see it go, actually also quite liked the minimalist and no nonsense design. I hope the Apple display has the same longevity, my monitors get used A LOT!!!
I have a bunch of these. The problem I have with it is that it technically supports USB-PD, but actually isn't designed to handle it. The thermal design is such that using USB-PD causes the USB-C connector to separate from the PCB in a way that is difficult, if not impossible, to repair. There are some samples that have a slightly better solder job that tend to hold up better, but ultimately this joint fails. LG oddly acknowledges this and simultaneously refuses to provide parts (even to authorized dealers) for current production models. You can't buy a 1:1 replacement PCB. Instead all they provide is a random Gen 1 logic board from a random country… which technically works (as they will remind you), but removes DP Alt mode and has the horribly RFI issue that plagued Gen 1 models.
I have a display now that is going on almost 5 years, somehow. But I've had three other failures. Shame on me, really, for buying the same thing over and over again, but there was no alternative until the Studio display.
IMO it's a great display. I still actually prefer it to the Studio Display because it's cheaper and I actually use the DP Alt mode over USB-C. But this thing needs a software update to disable USB-PD badly. Some basic diagnostic tools would go a long way too.
I didn't think it would be too hard to imagine. Your Mac does aid with the display, you know that right? Why else would it require you to reboot both devices after the first update.
Here is just one idea: When there's a new update, download and prepare update for the Mac and display, then install update for Mac, if it detects that the display has an update pending as well, then install that too afterwards. No need to have the user manually do it smh.
👋 I want to buy a ASD. I don’t care about the webcam but I am reading a lot of reviews on Amazon and other places about a hum / buzz noise. Has this been fixed with an update already? Can somebody verify please?
It’s the only thing keeping me from buying…
It’s the only thing keeping me from buying…
I don’t know if that’s something that would be addressed via firmware update. (I don’t own one yet, however).
Reports in the Studio Display Owners thread suggest that this is a defect, not all displays have it and you can return it for a replacement if you end up with one with a buzz. (Assuming that’s feasible, that you live close enough to an Apple Store or whatever retailer you purchase from). From my reading, it seems more have good displays than have ones that buzz.
I agree! It’s one of the only annoying things about this site. I get that the site (and Engadget) are owned by Amazon, so they basically have to push those eyeroll “Amazon deal” articles. But everything else about this site has been amazing, for years and years.