Historically, Apple did a much better job of hitting the mark 1st iteration. All the hyped marketing BS has gone too far imo
I'm happy to step aside and let the lemmings go off the cliff or stand around hand wringing in a tizzy for months until Apple sorts out their too-soon-to-market blunders
The equipment is far too expensive to accept anything less (and so is my time... doing productive things LOL).
Can you name the products that did better in their 1st generation?
It really doesn’t matter how expensive a piece of equipment is. There will
always be some duds. 🤷♂️
Your comments just prove my point for me and you are clearly too dense to recognize that.
Nobody expects perfection yet people like you defend the products as if they were. What we do expect is competence and, in the case of this monitor, not a 2015 product in 2022 at 2026 prices.
Imagine what Apple could be if we celebrated its wins and called out its losses equally. No? Ok pathetic fanboyism because we somehow get our identities from our product it is.
Lol move on kid.
You’ve managed to prove my
exact point too! You have absolutely
nothing to bring to the table other than your
extremely salty attitude. 🧂
Im loving the display - I had the speaker glitch once which a reboot fixed. Having an integrated webcam is exactly what I want - the firmware has made some improvement, but the iMac 24 camera definitely performs better and would be happier with. I dont know why they had to go all centre stage with it and I think thats where they made a mistake though not sure how they allowed it to ship like this. It is certainly the case where apple marketing doesn't meet the reality and they should really be pulled up on that. Its not a deal breaker and I wont be changing my monitor, its a great monitor, but the webcam is still has potato cam features. It was a daft move by apple to use that sensor with centre stage .
Center Stage is a
very useful feature for some people. I’m glad they included it.
Funny thing. I got the monitor yesterday and was expecting the camera to be not great but this morning I did FaceTime with my family and I didn’t tell them I was using a different camera and they said the video looked much better than my iPad and iPhone that I usually use for FaceTime.
So then I showed off Center Stage.
It goes to show how most people are just
imagining the problem themselves. The human brain really likes to screw with us!
Sort of like this comparison of a 12.9 inch iPad Pro M1 with miniLED and a regular 12.9 iPad Pro with the old display? Can’t even tell the difference, huh?
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Was that image taken in
very specific lighting conditions? You should see the difference that
OLED can make!
The whole first gen display studio, it's trash.
Do you even own one? Have you not seen the countless other people who’ve shared their pleasant experiences with the Apple Studio Display? 🤣
I don’t get why/how Apple, a company that provides computers to content providers (including video production), handles native 4K resolution so poorly. Why is it that they built their own OS and displays around oddball resolutions that make 4K look terrible?
Apple doesn’t make its own
4K display, but LG does. It works great with macOS.
Apple Store Search Results
www.apple.com
1440p is
still the most common resolution in the display industry (by a long shot).
4K displays are
still too expensive. I don’t think Apple wants to jump on that train.
Apple walked away from a scalable UI after a few prototype attempts. They’re only offering integer scaling — either 1x, or 2x (“Retina”). It’s much simpler from a drawing point of view, but does mean less flexibility compared to, say, Windows, where you can choose something in between like 125%. The downside of Windows’s approach is that all kinds of buggy edge cases continue to exist.
For 4K, you’d have to either go with a ~40-inch display @ 1x or a 21-inch display at 2x, such as in the discontinued 21-inch Retina iMac.
What “prototype attempts” are you referring to? When was Apple experimenting with them?
Actually ordered it and returned it. if you had retina iMac you would know this is a lazy product, they didn't put much effort. but they can correct this when they release the new one in Q1.
Who said that a new one is being released anytime soon? The current one is only a couple of months old.
You clearly didn’t use the Apple Studio Display for longer than two seconds if you think that it’s a “lazy product” with little effort put into it.
Nope. I've actually switched from an iMac 5k to the Mac Studio with two ASDs (plus another 4k), so I can very much judge that.
The ASD is actually borderline over-engineered, but this makes the actually present features as good as they can be (although Center Stage will likely remain controversial).
What people have been moaning about are mostly two "missing" features:
1. 120Hz: That is simply not possible because Thunderbolt doesn't have the data rate. The only ways to achieve that would be by occupying two Thunderbolt ports or by using compression, meaning accepting a loss of quality which would make the whole feature completely pointless and also squeezing any other devices on the same bus. So this is simply not an option until a future Thunderbolt version with double the bandwidth again so 53Gb/s for the uncompressed video stream becomes feasible and there's still some bandwidth left for other devices, too.
2. mini LED: Would currently raise the price by a lot (likely to the $3000-$4000 range!) and would force blooming artefacts on text-oriented users like me who'd absolutely hate that. Both the massively increased cost and blooming artefacts would probably have kept me from buying.
If you want to see a lazy product just look at the LG Ultrafine 5k which is shoddily designed even relative to other LG monitors. It's exactly why I had been waiting until Apple got the ASD which is what the LG should always have been. It was a big mistake by Apple to delegate this to LG!
Why is Center Stage so controversial? I love it! It’s extremely convenient! 😊
(never mind - and why does this forum not allow people to simply remove a post they’ve decided they don’t want anymore?)
Contributors are able to remove their own posts.
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