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This is the one recent Apple product that was disappointing to me and I wouldn't buy (if I needed a monitor).
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Apple Releases Studio Display Firmware Update to Fix Speaker Issue
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Boy that sucks 🙁 Do ya have a spare MacBook, that will work. It could be worse though, it could be totally 💯 bricked with nothing showing up.
constructor, take a break son, you gave your best.
I’ll admit when Apple makes mistakes and the update process is where they definitely made one
Yeah, it seems like a bit of a misfire.
Lots of great Mac products lately, though.
It doesn't. Most peoples' updates go through without an issue and even when there's a hiccup it apparently rights itself again after a few retries, as it should.
Update done in 5 minutes, everything OK.
The problem was easily rectified. Unplug the display from power. Plug it back in lower. Wait 29 seconds for it to boot. Enjoy for another month. This was not a huge issue to behind with.
It was a major problem for some of us who use the additional USB hubs on the ASD. it would work for a few hours then freeze up.
It looks like it could be a clock synchronization issue where the computer and display clocks diverge very slightly and the necessary compensation fails to kick in so buffers can over- or underrun after some time.
It should still not happen, but it is the type of issue which can be overlooked in internal testing when devices are frequently rebooted between testing sessions.
Clearly they should have noticed by now which testing scenarios had been lacking and taken corrective action.
Ran the update with no problems (never had the problem is is supposed to fix) and everything is great. Love this display and the Studio.
I'm just so happy that in my many decades of computing, I've never once had to think about "updating my monitor"
I see a lot of people criticizing the Studio Display but it really is something else. I have yet to find any other display on the market that matches it on DPI and color quality. I think the simple truth is that Apple charges what it does for it because it can. There's simply nothing else comparable.
Even that LG Ultrafine 5K display doesn't measure up. I've compared them side by side. The LG's colors look duller and it has colored banding in greyscale sweeps.
Yeah, it sucks that Apple's less expensive display option is still expensive, but I blame the lack of competition. Even not having HDR and such it destroys everything else. Luckily the few issues that have come up have been fixable with software updates.
Even that LG Ultrafine 5K display doesn't measure up. I've compared them side by side. The LG's colors look duller and it has colored banding in greyscale sweeps.
Yeah, it sucks that Apple's less expensive display option is still expensive, but I blame the lack of competition. Even not having HDR and such it destroys everything else. Luckily the few issues that have come up have been fixable with software updates.
I've had monitors with stupid issues where firmware updates would have been very welcome, even decades ago already!
Whenever a monitor has onscreen menus, it definitely has firmware. So basically always.
I'm not aware of any "dumb" monitors on the market, at least not as consumer / office products but at most as internal components where another processor then needs to take on that responsibility.
Maybe that's why I've not had the issue. I have my ASD on a power strip and tend to switch it off completely when I'll be away from my desk for a couple of days, which happens more than once a month. Basically I see no reason to leave the ASD and the stuff plugged into it powered up when I'm not there.
But then I use it with a Macbook which I take with me. People using it with a Mac Studio or Mini might never restart it, and will have the problem.
Exactly. If you demand superb image quality, such as if your a photographer who lives in Lightroom, or if you have degraded vision, or if you just like not having the eye strain from lessor displays, and... you don't have $6K+ for the Apple XDR display, there is no better display option.
This is a big reason why I got mine. I tried a Dell 4K display and it just felt like my eyes weren't focusing right when reading text. It was driving me nuts, like everything was *very slightly* blurry. I had come from using a 2015 5K iMac, and it felt like such a big downgrade, despite the Dell display having better color (P3, vs no P3) than the old iMac.
I gave in and bought the ASD, and relegated the 4K display to my Windows box, which I don't use anywhere near as heavily. It was totally worth the money, and if I get ten years or more out of the ASD across a few Mac upgrades, it will have been worth it.
I have a similar issue if I spend too much time in front of my M1 MBA. Not criticizing the computer, it's just the way it is.
Working in front of the ASD feels luxurious (of course). I also have three 4K LG displays for my X-Plane simulator setup. They're nice displays, but don't hold a candle to my ASD - it's clearly special.
Making a retina quality monitor at the size of an iPad and doing so just below the size of a small TV are completely different manufacturing processes. I want a 120hrz mini led 5k screen too, but clearly it’s not possible at the moment at least at any reasonable price or plenty of people would be showing Apple up right now.
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