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Apple Studio Display - Owners Thread
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How does the LG 24UD58-B look next to the ASD? I have a 24UD58-B on my desk in my office but have trouble visualizing it next to the ASD. I like the idea of the 24" vertical using Pages beside the ASD.
Cracking up because I had the exact same experience recently.
Update: Still loving it! Absolutely one of my favorite pieces of tech I've ever owned.
Minecraft not playing well with macOS fullscreen and not letting me cut the resolution below 5K without acting very glitchy is unfortunate though, my poor 13" M1 Pro isn't enjoying that!
Minecraft not playing well with macOS fullscreen and not letting me cut the resolution below 5K without acting very glitchy is unfortunate though, my poor 13" M1 Pro isn't enjoying that!
It's... okay. My biggest problem with the display is that while 4K @ 27" scaled to 1440p looks exactly like the ASD (as far as the size of elements goes), the 4K @ 24" is a bit off from the ASD no matter which scaling you choose.
That said, I use the 24UD58-B @ 1440p as a full screen Slack monitor, and Slack is an Electron app and so is zoomable to 110%. Which looks correct, side-by-side. I think I would find it annoyingly distracting to use it as anything else, next to the ASD.
Have had the ASD for almost a month and absolutely love it. It's an absolute joy to use and look at.
• Gorgeous display quality
• Build is solid, beautiful
• Instant-On!
• Auto-adjusting brightness, temperature
• Built-in speaker and microphone
• Camera is very convenient (if not great) and Center Stage is decent
• Glossy finish is lovely. Reflections aren't a problem. It's like using an iPhone
With the 5k resolution, even tiny text is exceptionally crisp. Color and brightness are ideal for photo editing. It's a gorgeous piece of art, and the build is very solid.* I know it's not technically HDR but the contrast and blacks are exceptional nonetheless.
The instant-on is a perhaps the most underrated feature. My Mac Studio and ASD can go instantly from sleep to "on" by tapping the keyboard. A HUGE improvement over my Dell.**
Love the auto-adjusting brightness and color. And controlling the brightness from my keyboard is heavenly, coming from my dell where brightness adjustments required lots of tedious button mashing (so I never bothered).
The built in speaker is very good. I find myself using it most of the time instead of my 5.1 Logitech surround sound system. (The 5.1 system sounds better, of course. But unless I'm listening to music, it's just easier/nicer having the sound come straight from the monitor.
And the speaker/microphone/camera let me use Siri or use Facetime without extra external cameras, mics, etc. Another big plus over a normal monitor.
The camera is very convenient. Everyone is disappointed with the quality, but it's fine for me. Frankly, I rarely use it, and don't especially want or need my face to be in high definition. It's convenient to have it built-in and invisible for the 99.99% of the time I don't need it. And Center Stage mostly negates the need for constant angle or seat adjustments.
I was worried about reflection, as I have sliding glass door behind my desk that goes to a bright patio. I keep the curtain drawn on the half behind my computer, but the other half is always open for natural light and it's fine. The screen is bright enough to overcome all but direct sunlight, and your eyes focus pass the light hints of reflections. It's like using an iPhone.
I have yet to notice any fan noise or heat. It's slightly warm at the top edge, but cooler than body temperature. By contrast, my Dell could get very hot and you could feel heat radiating from the back.
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* I have the ASD mounted on an Ergotron arm (which I love, too). Some adjustments are a bit stiff, so I sometimes need to twist the screen with a bit of force. No give, no flexing, no creeks. Solid.
** My Dell required pressing a power button on (or off), plus 2-10 seconds for it to turn on, and anywhere from 10-20 minutes to fully warm up for accurate color. (Not really obviously for the casual user, but for photo editing this was a concern).
• Gorgeous display quality
• Build is solid, beautiful
• Instant-On!
• Auto-adjusting brightness, temperature
• Built-in speaker and microphone
• Camera is very convenient (if not great) and Center Stage is decent
• Glossy finish is lovely. Reflections aren't a problem. It's like using an iPhone
With the 5k resolution, even tiny text is exceptionally crisp. Color and brightness are ideal for photo editing. It's a gorgeous piece of art, and the build is very solid.* I know it's not technically HDR but the contrast and blacks are exceptional nonetheless.
The instant-on is a perhaps the most underrated feature. My Mac Studio and ASD can go instantly from sleep to "on" by tapping the keyboard. A HUGE improvement over my Dell.**
Love the auto-adjusting brightness and color. And controlling the brightness from my keyboard is heavenly, coming from my dell where brightness adjustments required lots of tedious button mashing (so I never bothered).
The built in speaker is very good. I find myself using it most of the time instead of my 5.1 Logitech surround sound system. (The 5.1 system sounds better, of course. But unless I'm listening to music, it's just easier/nicer having the sound come straight from the monitor.
And the speaker/microphone/camera let me use Siri or use Facetime without extra external cameras, mics, etc. Another big plus over a normal monitor.
The camera is very convenient. Everyone is disappointed with the quality, but it's fine for me. Frankly, I rarely use it, and don't especially want or need my face to be in high definition. It's convenient to have it built-in and invisible for the 99.99% of the time I don't need it. And Center Stage mostly negates the need for constant angle or seat adjustments.
I was worried about reflection, as I have sliding glass door behind my desk that goes to a bright patio. I keep the curtain drawn on the half behind my computer, but the other half is always open for natural light and it's fine. The screen is bright enough to overcome all but direct sunlight, and your eyes focus pass the light hints of reflections. It's like using an iPhone.
I have yet to notice any fan noise or heat. It's slightly warm at the top edge, but cooler than body temperature. By contrast, my Dell could get very hot and you could feel heat radiating from the back.
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* I have the ASD mounted on an Ergotron arm (which I love, too). Some adjustments are a bit stiff, so I sometimes need to twist the screen with a bit of force. No give, no flexing, no creeks. Solid.
** My Dell required pressing a power button on (or off), plus 2-10 seconds for it to turn on, and anywhere from 10-20 minutes to fully warm up for accurate color. (Not really obviously for the casual user, but for photo editing this was a concern).
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I just had to comment on this, holy crap the UI on Dell monitors is such pure garbage. I don't know how they managed to design something so horrible that made it out the door, yet they did.
Also why can't the monitor just GO TO SLEEP? No it has to display a big "MONITOR IS GOING TO SLEEP" box at MAXIMUM brightness for like ten seconds. No way to disable that either.
Dell really needs to work on their user experience!
Every monitor seemingly does that, except my ASD. It's honestly one of my favorite features of the ASD. When I turn it off, it just turns off. Some monitors are even worse than the Dell -- my LG screen is so bad about this, I want to toss it across the room at times.
Maybe this is something that only works if you have a single input but either way not having my monitor complain about inputs is really nice.
Maybe this is something that only works if you have a single input but either way not having my monitor complain about inputs is really nice.
Thanks for sharing that. A 24” vertically would great for writing documents, I would think. If Apple still had the 21” 4K, I’d get that without thinking twice.
As described earlier, I'm using two ASDs plus one (vertical, scaled) LG 4k 27UP850 and the LG 4k can effectively display everything the ASDs can (even with the same P3 colour space and at least decent brightness), it's just quite noticeably grainier and fuzzier and has lesser contrast (that it is matte vs. the glossy ASDs doesn't help it at all).
Not horrible per se, just much less pleasant to use for any more intensive work. It's okay for displaying less important information and well worth just a quarter of an ASD's price, but for actually working the ASDs are very clearly better, crisper and smoother in particular.
(Scaled or unscaled didn't make much of a quality difference to me with the 4k – macOS downscales to it from a virtual 5k image.)
Not horrible per se, just much less pleasant to use for any more intensive work. It's okay for displaying less important information and well worth just a quarter of an ASD's price, but for actually working the ASDs are very clearly better, crisper and smoother in particular.
(Scaled or unscaled didn't make much of a quality difference to me with the 4k – macOS downscales to it from a virtual 5k image.)
Someone was selling an LG 22MD4KA today for $75(!) and I snapped it up, as my tertiary vertical monitor.
Aside from being one of the most reflective screens ever made, I had forgotten just how danged nice this monitor was. 21.5" @ 4096x2304 is essentially the exact same DPI (219) as the ASD, and is just so, so much sharper than the 24" LG UltraFine 4K or the 24" LG 24UD58-B, both of which are somehow the standard (and lower) resolution of 3840x2160.
Really makes me wish that Apple would sell 21" and 24" variants of the ASD at 4 and 4.5K respectively, even if I know it'll likely never happen.
Aside from being one of the most reflective screens ever made, I had forgotten just how danged nice this monitor was. 21.5" @ 4096x2304 is essentially the exact same DPI (219) as the ASD, and is just so, so much sharper than the 24" LG UltraFine 4K or the 24" LG 24UD58-B, both of which are somehow the standard (and lower) resolution of 3840x2160.
Really makes me wish that Apple would sell 21" and 24" variants of the ASD at 4 and 4.5K respectively, even if I know it'll likely never happen.
Is there any way to play Blu Rays on Apple Silicon Macs?
Every app and solution I have searched looks dodgy. The players look unreliable or from companies I don’t trust.
On Windows I would only trust Cyberlink.
On several Macs I always used the App MacGo Blu-Ray Player with my old external Blu-ray player I put together back in late 00s and still runs even though it's still only USB 3!
Already looked up that one and others. It just looks crusty. Their Pro Player says ‘Note: 4K UHD Blu-ray disc is not supported.’
It’s really disappointing we don’t have good choice here because most ‘streaming 4K‘ films are not actually 4K.
UHD Blu-ray has insane DRM requirements on computers. Even on Windows the only player that supported it was CyberLink, you need an Intel 7th Gen+ processor with SGX which is an extension just for DRM basically. AMD never bothered adding it and Intel removed support for it in 12th Gen CPUs.
So the only things that are going to play UHD discs besides CyberLink on a computer are sketchy tools that can break the DRM.
The irony is that the DRM is instantly broken anyway and the media is on the various piracy sites on the day of release if not earlier.
I really wish these companies would stop putting barriers in the way of legitimate, legal use. They don't affect piracy at all and just ruin the user experience for people willing to pay for media.
I have this, too, but the house has to be practically dead quiet to hear it so, yes, it's subtle. Mine has nothing to do with brightness. Even when the ASD is in sleep (still connected to the computer), I can hear it.
If this is normal, I can live with it. I like everything about the display. I just would like to know that it won't get worse. Fortunately, I got mine from Costco and they're pretty good about returns, especially if there's a problem.
Has anyone found a way to disable the "fake HDR" that the studio display does?
Sometimes it looks cool, like when looking at HDR photos you've taken, but other times it looks lousy; for example if you're watching an HDR video file with a mostly dark scene, the backlight being cranked up totally turns the black background into grey.
Sometimes it looks cool, like when looking at HDR photos you've taken, but other times it looks lousy; for example if you're watching an HDR video file with a mostly dark scene, the backlight being cranked up totally turns the black background into grey.
Just received mine today, replacing my old Thunderbolt Display.
SO much better. Text is crisp and sharp; macOS's many shades of grey are clearly distinguishable. "It's like a new pair of glasses."
Sound is phenomenal, too.
And it uses a third of the power of the old TBD.
SO much better. Text is crisp and sharp; macOS's many shades of grey are clearly distinguishable. "It's like a new pair of glasses."
Sound is phenomenal, too.
And it uses a third of the power of the old TBD.
I know, right? I've had (and still have) some nice monitors on my other computers, but the Studio Displays are my favorite. My little study where my Mac and my two Studio Displays are has a big window. And while I don't get any direct glare (which is good, since I have the standard glass), I do love the super bright image to compete with all the natural sunlight coming in to the room. And of course, with the shades drawn, they're retina-searingly bright. I love bright displays.
After having waited from March 22 on my two ASD (standard / VESA ) have arrived. Set up on my desk is now complete. Must say that the supplied USB C cables are way too short for use with Ergotron monitor arms. I would like to hide the cables in the arms but this is only possible if I rest the monitors like this and don't move them (eg to portrait mode).