Another one for ya. At 5:10, reviewer says these get “up to” 1000 nits peak brightness for “regular use” and then “up to” 1600 nits for HDR content.
I believe he responds to comments that he now understands the mistake. But now his source for 500 nits is just YouTube comments, where is it officially from Apple.
If even someone running a YouTube channel, whom should be at least be a little more familiar with tech than your average consumer, still got it wrong, maybe there’s something misleading or poorly done in the marketing from Apple, whether accidental or on purpose.
I ordered the 16 during the event, to make sure I didn’t miss the first ship dates, all while working, taking calls, missing parts of the presentation, plus other chaos happening around me.
I recall excitement to see the XDR slide, which was the icing on the cake that finally got me to order ASAP. Thing is, I never followed detailed reviews of a $5k display prior to this, nor the iPad Pro XDR, I solely went off the new MacBook Pro marketing materials that completely omitted SDR nits. With mini-LED type displays being relatively new tech and not common, I was not going to assume anything and simply wanted a clear answer from Apple, not random articles making claims before any had been delivered to consumers.
Sadly, the damage has been done, we now have threads like this plus confusing launch reviews that don’t test for SDR, expect for a notebook site that was unknown to some users. Or you just have reviews say 500 nits for SDR, but no source, did they measure it, did they compare it visually to an old laptop, did Apple reach out and tell them?
It’s not going to be clear until Apple lists it on their own site for SDR
