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Apple Studio Display Successor Now Expected Early Next Year
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Lately they haven't been doing either of those things!
Well, they did it with the M4 MacBook Air. So there is some precident.
GEEZ does this thing need an upgrade! $1600 with no mini-LED/HDR and only one input is NUTS IMO.
Apple plans to release a next-generation Studio Display or equivalent replacement external monitor as soon as early next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
In his latest report on Apple's product roadmap for 2026, Gurman said the company is planning to launch its first new Mac external monitor since debuting the Apple Studio Display in 2022.
The new version, internally code-named J427, "is currently slated for early 2026," alongside Macs with M5 chips, said Gurman.
Gurman in February reported that Apple was "ramping up" work on a new Studio Display that "should arrive by 2026," so his latest wording offers a more definite launch window.
Notably, Gurman in his latest report refrains from referring to the product as a new Studio Display. Whether that means the replacement external monitor could be named differently is unclear.
For what it's worth, Gurman in March reported that Apple is working on a second new monitor code-named J527. At the time, Gurman suggested that either Apple was developing two versions of the Studio Display and would choose one to launch, or it's a second model with a different screen size or set of specifications – perhaps a new Pro Display XDR. Apple's high-end monitor debuted alongside the Mac Pro in 2019, and it has not received an update since its launch.
Gurman has not revealed any new features or changes planned for Apple's Studio Display successor. However, display industry analyst Ross Young in January said Apple was developing a new 27-inch display with mini-LEDs that could launch in late 2025 or early 2026. Young believes this display could be a new Studio Display with mini-LED backlighting.
Mini-LED technology would provide benefits such as increased brightness and higher contrast ratio compared to the current Studio Display with LEDs.
Apple launched the Studio Display in March 2022 alongside the Mac Studio. It features a 5K resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, 600 nits of brightness, built-in camera and speakers, one Thunderbolt 3 port, and three USB-C ports. Pricing in the U.S. starts at $1,599.
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I really want at least an HDMI n so I can connect a second PC, and HDR/mini-LED. Still a crazy price, but it's the only way to give Mac Mini/Studio 'Hey Siri' support.
Many here want Mini-LED and ProMotion. Those would be welcome. But I mostly want a larger 32-inch model. Also, it’s the only way I could justify an upgrade from the one I bought this year (nano/tilt). 😉
To me it feels like a better fit for PCs, when you often have static elements for hours/days.
Plus I don't love having to baby a display. Just being able to use it however I want, as long as I want, as bright as I want, with no downsides, is great.
OLED I'd constantly be worrying about it! And I've seen testing showing a notebook with one was losing 10% brightness per year (and started off dimmer to begin with).
Personally I prefer VA over IPS for the massively higher native contrast ratios, but oh well, I hear the Macbook Pros have EXCELLENT and bright displays.
I think I prefer that to like the Asus Zeph/ProArt with OLED that's less than half the brightness, and wears out with use.
I don't think cutting the speakers and camera would results in a ~40% price cut.
Like a lot of us, I wish they'd release a 32 inch monitor.
Oh yeah...good point. I'm sleep deprived so I guess it wasn't obvious to me, but like there's lots of monitors.
Not from Apple.
Just bought an LG to use with an unused AppleTV and it won't work. You cannot control the volume from the Apple TV remote.
I have two ethernet dongles for my macBookPro only one works. Again Apple does not make one.
Apple is the Microsoft of the 1990s. Apple stuff only works with other Apple stuff.
That will be $5659.78 Will you be using your Apple card today?
27" 1440p OLED panels are common. 27" 5120x2880 retina OLED panels are not.
If they use Tandem OLED it will very much easily warrant that price and have similar longevity as the existing Pro Display XDR that has aged like fine wine.
…You clearly haven’t used a Tandem OLED panel. LG G5 and the M4 iPad Pro are common in-store examples that can enlighten your stance pretty quickly.
There’s countless reviews and technical white papers that clearly shows the superiority of tandem OLED.
Apple deliberately prefers all their prosiemr products to have consistent image and HDR performance.
Tandem OLED XDR debuted with the iPad Pro and very much expected across all their flagship prosumer products.
The Liquid Glass design language even keeps this in mind
…They already do being the Pro Display XDR that needs to be 6K in order to achieve high PPI.
This isn’t changing as Apple does not desire nor need to sell a monitor significantly less sharp than their other prosumer devices making it then useless to reliably extend what you were working on with the portable screen.
For this reason, it’s explicitly expected Apple will leverage it’s iconic supply chain advantage to release a Tandem OLED successor to the Pro Display XDR as well as the Macbook Pro.
I and many creative professional invaluably benefit from high PPI and their XDR HDR tech (1000 sustained nits, 1600 peak nits) being consistent across their panels.
That is a very, very strongly justified and common reason creative professionals and devs prefer Macs.
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Yeah I mean pulling off as in delivering the product
They have a big investment on BOE right? Surely they can pull some strings to push R&D in the right direction?
Samsung panel sounds interesting actually, do we know if it’s going to be 5k 16:9 or one of those ultra wide 5K’s with 1440p vertical resolution?
4K isn’t ideal after 24” and actually many 27” QD-OLED monitors are really using 24.5” panels from Samsung, LG Display, and AU Optronics to be close enough for this very reason.
5K at 27” and 6K at 32” is needed at minimum for standardized high PPI to be achieved; Apple markets high PPI panels to average people as “retina displays”.
4K is inadequate for that at 27” and that will never change.
Apple has not been interested for well over a decade selling non-high-PPI monitors for very good reason as it’s sound HCI Computer Science common knowledge that PPI/DPI is more meaningful and valuable measure of a screen’s sharpness over resolution which is an implementation detail.
Resolution needs to be variable to achieve particular levels of sharpness via pixels per inch (PPI), device pixel ratio (DPR) and pixels per degree (PPD).
4K OLED Tvs aren’t very expensive these days at smaller sizes. Why would a monitor be more? The color accuracy hardware is going to cost whether you use OLED or LCD.
Latest technology on top of tariffs are only more sophisticated in bill of material and require more R&D and far more difficult to pull off.
Of course they’re not cheaper. It doesn’t make sense for tandem OLED to be cheaper than regular OLED panels.
Same applies to MicroLED and OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS)
