Apple Releases Studio Display Firmware 15.5 With Webcam Update

[Arctic Moose]

(I guess the PowerBook 5300 wasn’t great either, but I cannot recall why I didn’t like it.)

Oh, right, it was the passive matrix greyscale display, and perhaps the 8 MB of RAM.

(I guess I should have coughed up $6800 in 1995 money for a color 800x600 active matrix display and 32 MB.)

 

[JR-in-Florida]

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[HackMacDaddy]

Such a shame. Apple used to be bleeding edge and innovative. People should be asking like: „wow what webcam is this?? quality is so amazing“.. instead it‘s: „hahah you‘re using that 1500$ potato“. I mean, a good example is their laptop speakers, no competitor comes close. How amazing would it be if the webcams were like that too.

 

[lindros2]

Yeah, something feels off about this product in terms of quality and branding. Let's remember they didn't do anything fundamental to improve the display portion of this monitor over what's in the 2020 iMac (no increase in size or resolution, no local dimming, no variable refresh, no HDR), and yet they are charging only $200 less for this ($1599) than they did for an entire 2020 iMac ($1799). At best, it seems there are small improvements in max brightness and black levels. And the bezels are narrower (though still twice as wide as those on the XDR, which has a more sleek, modern look for that reason).

I understand they were probably under manufacturing/technological/time constraints that prevented them from doing anything really cool with the screen (as contrasted with what they did with the 14" and 16" MBPs). But given this, and given what they planned to charge, the best approach would have been do to something special with the camera, like they did with the three-microphone array (which is reportedly excellent), and also not force an upcharge for something as basic as a vertically adjustable stand.

Specifically, at $1599, the webcam should have been outstanding. They could have done some clever engineering to both have Center Stage, yet allow the webcam to make use of the entire sensor when used in the most common mode, which is with one person. Simply doing a wide view and and then implementing an agressive crop for single-person use is a cheap, lazy approach.

Wait - so like Dell just did with its new 4K conference display (albeit better camera)?

 

[theorist9]

Wait - so like Dell just did with its new 4K conference display (albeit better camera)?

Not familiar with that. If Dell produced an AIO with a 4k conference display, and then made small improvements to the display and sold it by itself for just $200 less then, yes, Dell would have done the same thing. Did they? If so, links, please.

 

[lindros2]

Not familiar with that. If Dell produced an AIO with a 4k conference display, and then made small improvements to the display and sold it by itself for just $200 less then, yes, Dell would have done the same thing. Did they? If so, links, please.

We're talking studio display here, with built-in camera + speakers, not AiO (vs. iMac).

Dell launches UltraSharp 32 4K Conference Monitor with USB-C and built-in 4K HDR Sony webcam - 9to5Mac

After unveiling its new USB-C UltraSharp 32 4K Conference Monitor that features a built-in 4K HDR Sony webcam at CES...

9to5mac.com

 

[theorist9]

We're talking studio display here, with built-in camera + speakers, not AiO (vs. iMac).

Dell launches UltraSharp 32 4K Conference Monitor with USB-C and built-in 4K HDR Sony webcam - 9to5Mac

After unveiling its new USB-C UltraSharp 32 4K Conference Monitor that features a built-in 4K HDR Sony webcam at CES...

9to5mac.com

In the post to which you responded, I was specifically comparing the Studio Display with the the 5k in display in the 2020 iMac:

Yeah, something feels off about this product in terms of quality and branding. Let's remember they didn't do anything fundamental to improve the display portion of this monitor over what's in the 2020 iMac (no increase in size or resolution, no local dimming, no variable refresh, no HDR), and yet they are charging only $200 less for this ($1599) than they did for an entire 2020 iMac ($1799). At best, it seems there are small improvements in max brightness and black levels. And the bezels are narrower (though still twice as wide as those on the XDR, which has a more sleek, modern look for that reason)....

So when you said the following:

Wait - so like Dell just did with its new 4K conference display (albeit better camera)?

...I took it to mean that you were saying Dell did the same thing: That its 4k conference monitor was nothing (much) more than the same display they'd packaged within a Dell AIO, with only a $200 decrease in expense compared to the complete display+computer. And I was skeptical of that.

But I'm now guessing that you might have instead been responding to the last part of my post, about the camera. In that case, my suggestion would have been to just quote that part of the post, rather than the whole thing, to avoid miscommunication.

 

[lindros2]

… just quote that part of the post, rather than the whole thing, to avoid miscommunication.

Smh

 

[Lacos]

The 15.5 Update does not show up on my new Studio Display (currently 15.4 installed). I am using a Macbook Air M1 with MacOS 12.4 - but the software update center dies not show the new firmware for the studio display. Anyone hat this issue, too? What to do here? I have already rebooted several times, used the another port and I am already thinking of returning it.