I need a monitor buy late Feb my Mac Studio arrives. I wish they’d release the Samsung Viewfinity S9 before but I seriously doubt we see it before summer.
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Deals: Apple Studio Display Drops to Record-Low $1,299.99 at Amazon ($299 Off)
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My non-refurb Studio Display was just delivered YESTERDAY. Do I understand you correctly that I can get Apple to price-match Amazon and recoup $299?
It’s the same screen as the 27-inch iMac. For the same price you get a full fledge computer and screen. I could understand of this was a newer better screen but it’s the same one as the iMac but with a better mush web cam? It’s really hard to make the argument that it’s not over priced when compared to the 27-inch iMac unfortunately.
Yes! You’re still within the 14-day return period, and they would much rather price match your order than processing and repackaging a very expensive return.
Mind you, I bought the refurbished display and therefore they only had to refund me $60, and I’ve heard that Apple might only price match up to 10%. However, in my experience they go above that value. My only note is that you must do this in store or over the phone (not text chat), and if you get a difficult representative just call back later.
This is an amazing deal, I have the Studio Display and don’t see myself swapping to anything else in the next few years. Only problem is the height adjustable stand is a requirement IMO, otherwise I’d want to get it with a vesa mount.
Great for if you want a Mac only monitor of course, I have a higher refresh second display which I use for my gaming PC.
I’m sure Apple has a followup planned with MiniLED and 120hz, but even still, this is a great monitor.
Great for if you want a Mac only monitor of course, I have a higher refresh second display which I use for my gaming PC.
I’m sure Apple has a followup planned with MiniLED and 120hz, but even still, this is a great monitor.
How can I use the 27" imac as an external display for my MBP? I thought target-display-mode was discontinued years ago?
Only iMacs up to 2014 can be used in target mode. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
Yep. Maybe if they too another 4 or 5 hundred off, and include the tilt/height adjustment stand, I might consider buying it.
Luna Display is your friend. My OG iMac Pro is running strong, looks great, and while it runs Ventura currently, I have an M1 Mac Mini that I use for my Home Media Server and I use it "headless" with the iMac Pro as the display when I want to organize my library, or just tinker on Apple Silicon. Works reliably fast via thunderbolt 3, and I cant notice ANY input lag. Even wirelessly, the normal OS operation is streamlined and lag free. The extra ports on the iMac Pro make it a little Macintosh Hub for the M1 which lacks ports. Even if you're iMac "cant" run Ventura (see OCLP for non-supported Macs), it will still work for older Macs.
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I welcome any new 5k/6k monitor to the market, but I wouldn't touch anything Samsung with a 10 ft pole. I've had so many issues with their QC.
Cool device, that'd be real handy for the folks who already have a 27" imac they wish to use with other devices.
From my standpoint though, in response to Student of Life's "For the same price you get a full fledge computer and screen", it just seems a lot simpler to buy the ASD than to find a leftover 27" imac somewhere.
I feel like people just like to throw the term "overpriced" around without doing any real comparison to similar products.
I would love one of these. I'm still rocking my Apple Cinema Displays from 2010 but they're getting long in the tooth. You can no longer adjust the brightness on them, at all, on M series chips and compared to my newer screens on my laptops there's definitely a little bit of a color shift (not terrible but noticeable on one of the monitors). 12.5 years is a long time for a monitor.
It's a tough decision for me, but I do agree that its a more sound investment for most individuals to get the Studio Display if they DONT have an iMac/iMac Pro 5k.
OR, if they can... just wait a little longer and save up for the rumored displays. But thats just hypothetical until Apple announces them.
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Well yeah if your work is regularly editing 4k video, I doubt you are doing it on the base mini. But you also could if, for example, you edit five minute videos, post or send them to client after done, then archive them onto an external drive. That workflow would fit easily onto a 256gb. But even that, again, is a workflow where the read/write would be easily fast enough. Those files would be like 2gb and would be read/write in two seconds on these "slow" SSDs.
Now I do understand that you can put your Mac into a swap memory state (e.g., launch three youtube videos at the same time on an 8gb mac mini), then run a benchmark or giant 50gb write process and get the result of that 50gb write taking a minute. But who is doing this? And even in that case, isn't the real issue that the Mac doesn't have enough RAM?
I called Amazon and they refunded me 200.00. I am happy about that.