Mac Studio and Studio Display Now Available for Same-Day Pickup at Select Apple Stores

[Bug-Creator]

Well it doesn't look like it has worked so well for the webcam...

Maybe, but at least they have full access to fix the issue.

 

[iPhoneFan5349]

Want two of these displays, but not going to remotely consider buying them until webcam fixed and re-reviewed.

The days of the front facing camera being an afterthought are long past. We live in the age of Zoom and selfies, and Apple knows better.

Maybe it’s true it was actually a last minute bug—which sounds highly dubious. But if it is actually so, then this is the wakeup call that Apple needs and it’s customers have long understood: Apple’s software quality has been subpar for years, typically shipped incomplete and buggy. Just look at Monterey, or the last few iphone releases where hardware advances waited months for the software to enable tentpole hardware features.

Yeah. It has become a norm where all the features announced don’t make it on release day. I have an iPhone 13 Pro, first iPhone since like 10 years ago. I’m coming from a Galaxy S8 with Android 8.0 because Android updates process suck so I never got any kind of update. But I just can’t believe how Android 8.0 is better than iOS 15. Like even for using the simple phone app.

In my iPhone I can’t past a number and then just edit any number I want in between, I have to delete from the last number to the fist lol. I can’t even search recent phone calls, I’m only allowed to search contacts.

It’s so frustrating. If I want to make an international call I go to a website, and then touch on the number to call but obviously I have to add the international prefix first, I can’t do that on an iPhone because I would have to delete the whole number to add the prefix first. I tried to copy the number which it let me, so I added the prefix first and then pasted the number and this damn phone deleted the first numbers I had put lol.

Can’t believe a $1,000 dollars phone plus tax can’t do simple stuff. I googled the issue and sure enough, people have been complaining of this since 2014 (the earliest I could find)

It’s like Apple doesn’t even use their phones or like they have never use an Android phone so they don’t know what they are missing.

 

[dizmonk]

This would have been an amazing product for $999.
There would have been zero complains for both the monitor and the lack of the 27" iMac.
Even without the built-in A13 CPU nonsense... no need for it, really. You can rely on an M1/Pro/Max/Ultra for Pete's sake.

1000% this

 

[brunerd]

Disappointed to find only two tilt-adjustable displays at an Apple Store. A store manager said they weren't likely to get any height-adjustable models on the floor as those were custom and not something a customer could walk out with same-day. How are you supposed to try this stuff out if it's not on display. Heck the AR Apple has is the tilt-adjust only too. If your height adjust arm costs $400 and you won't even display in store, I don't understand how you expect folks to want to shell out that dough unless they can experience it first.

 

[cmaier]

Disappointed to find only two tilt-adjustable displays at an Apple Store. A store manager said they weren't likely to get any height-adjustable models on the floor as those were custom and not something a customer could walk out with same-day. How are you supposed to try this stuff out if it's not on display. Heck the AR Apple has is the tilt-adjust only too. If your height adjust arm costs $400 and you won't even display in store, I don't understand how you expect folks to want to shell out that dough unless they can experience it first.

If you want to experience it, you’ll just have to wait until Apple has enough of them that they can put them in stores. Right now they don’t “expect folks to want to shell out that dough unless they can experience it first” - they are having no problem at all selling every one they can make to willing customers. In time they will be on display in Apple Stores.

 

[sockdoggy]

Disappointed to find only two tilt-adjustable displays at an Apple Store. A store manager said they weren't likely to get any height-adjustable models on the floor as those were custom and not something a customer could walk out with same-day. How are you supposed to try this stuff out if it's not on display. Heck the AR Apple has is the tilt-adjust only too. If your height adjust arm costs $400 and you won't even display in store, I don't understand how you expect folks to want to shell out that dough unless they can experience it first.

They had a nano glass, height adjustable stand on display Nashville downtown. It’s amazing to adjust and build quality is there for sure - but practically when monitor is on your desk, I’m sure you wouldn’t be moving it around. An Amazon monitor stand will do the trick for $5-$30

 

[Felix01]

I'm anxious to see some reports about the quality of the Studio Display camera. Verge threw cold water on it and sent pictures to the Apple Studio Display Team. Verge said "don't buy" til Apple fixes the camera. Did Verge get one that slipped past QC or is there indeed a camera issue?

 

[The Game 161]

I'm anxious to see some reports about the quality of the Studio Display camera. Verge threw cold water on it and sent pictures to the Apple Studio Display Team. Verge said "don't buy" til Apple fixes the camera. Did Verge get one that slipped past QC or is there indeed a camera issue?

Others have said the same though

 

[mdatwood]

I’m in the process of trying out Samsung’s Odyssey G7 (28” 144Hz 4K) at the moment. I was let down by the Studio Display not having ProMotion and basically being the same as the LG 5K I was already using, so I thought I’d take a look at something else.

Anyway, I’m bringing this up because I think there absolutely is a discernible difference… if you try to have text be a similar size on both displays, i.e., using 150% scaling on the 4K and 200% on the 5K. If you just run both at 200%, the 4K’s text is much bigger of course, but it looks just as sharp as the 5K.

EDIT: I should note that I only used these on macOS. For all I know, Windows and Linux might manage to make 150% on the 4K look nearly as good as 200% on the 5K because of their sub-pixel antialiasing.

I'm glad you brought this up. At least on macOS, running at 4k @ 1440 is noticeably not as sharp as running a 5k @ 1440. It may not be worth the extra money to people, but I hate how people claim that 4k and 5k aren't noticeably different. They absolutely are if you want to run at 1440 effective resolution. Otherwise, you need to run the 4k @ 1080 which is a little big for a 27" monitor.

It's a bummer that the PC game market drives panel technology, and we (Mac users) still only have like 3 choices for 5k or greater monitors at 27"+.

 

[dwsolberg]

I'm anxious to see some reports about the quality of the Studio Display camera. Verge threw cold water on it and sent pictures to the Apple Studio Display Team. Verge said "don't buy" til Apple fixes the camera. Did Verge get one that slipped past QC or is there indeed a camera issue?

There's a software bug that will be fixed as soon as Apple can figure it out. My display has it and the camera image is bad but usable.

 

[return2sendai]

Where can I get that squiggly wiggly screensaver?

 

[dozers]

I just set up my Studio Display in place of my 27” iMac. They actually made it even lower than the display on my iMac. Was already on the fence about getting the height adjustable, but it now appears Apple is forcing people to by lowering the standard height. Bad Apple. Not to mention there will be a mini-LED version out in June. I wonder if Apple will agree to swap them out past the return policy if there’s an uproar.

There won't be a mini-LED version (of the 27" Studio) this June, or this year.

 

[B-Mc-C]

There won't be a mini-LED version (of the 27" Studio) this June, or this year.

Ross Young insists there will be, and has a 100% accuracy with panel predictions (though not the device they end up going into, as his sources are in the display supply chain, not final assembly). Couple that with an 8-10 week delay for the height adjustable version and I’d say it’s pretty likely. Guessing it will be $2499 and include the height adjustment option.

 

[pshufd]

The base model is available at two local stores but not my favorite store. They are available on Tuesday at my favorite store. The store models of the 2021 MacBook Pros are also available at my local stores.