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Pro Display XDR Turns Four Years Old: When to Expect a New Model
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it should have had ProMotion from the start.
more of a gasp than a laugh…I still watch it every now and then—poor Ternus, that musta been the first thing that popped into his head when virtual keynotes became a thing. (but then, yknow, $999 stand)
anyway, when to expect a new XDR: never; Apple introduced that and the Studio Display as a one-off to play with our hearts and make us think they were getting back into the display game.
Ross Young has no real sources and throws out crazy predictions all the time that never come true.
Like the mini LED iMac Pro he said would be available in late 2022 https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...id-2022-not-expected-at-spring-event.2333234/
What about the 27" standalone mini LED display he said was coming in Q1 2023? https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...id-2022-not-expected-at-spring-event.2333234/
Just wild guesses, and no penalties for getting it wrong.
I will never buy any screen with less than 120hz. That’s why I never bought any studio or xdr display.
I want every display to be as smooth as my mobile devices and tv since over a half of a decade.
The fact that a multi billion dollar company can’t deliver that to computer monitor screens is fubar.
At least they should stop bragging about how scary fast their devices are.
Because it seems they are not.
I want every display to be as smooth as my mobile devices and tv since over a half of a decade.
The fact that a multi billion dollar company can’t deliver that to computer monitor screens is fubar.
At least they should stop bragging about how scary fast their devices are.
Because it seems they are not.
If you bought the stand 4 years ago at $999 and/or a $999 MacBook Air, and fast forward to today - the XDR stand has higher resale value than the MacBook.
One would assume when microLED can push 8k at refresh rates from 60Hz - 240Hz, with expanded Display reference models.
100% this. The idea of paying 6k for display with a max refresh of 60hz is asinine. But Apple could have released this one with 30hz and people would have defended it. Just look at the “8gb is all you need and is a pro device” crowd lurking around here.
Honestly, its the most prettiest display I've ever seen. However, its so over priced! I own one and really want one some day. If they could make a 32" version of the Apple Studio Display at a lower price point, I would consider it. I just feel that 27" isn't enough for me. But the Apple Pro Display is still the best one on the market to date.
Pro Display XDR was such a moonshot for a consumer display that I could see Apple keeping it around at a lower price or slightly repackaging it into a new mid-grade display between the ASD and whatever replaces it.
I suppose it depends on the nature of whatever Apple has in the pipelines for a top-end display. If all they do is make a 120 Hz XDR type display, maybe they don't see the value of keeping around a lower max refresh rate display in their lineup as a mid-grade option.
I suppose it depends on the nature of whatever Apple has in the pipelines for a top-end display. If all they do is make a 120 Hz XDR type display, maybe they don't see the value of keeping around a lower max refresh rate display in their lineup as a mid-grade option.
Those USB ports on the XDR have limited bandwidth because the input port has to carry the display signal and that takes up most of the Thunderbolt port bandwidth. There is just enough left over for USB 2.0 speed ports.
@TheRoxyTheatre , @UnbreakableAlex ,
The current XDR is already at the limit of what Thunderbolt ports can sustain. Doubling the refresh rate would have done nothing as there was no way to get the data in twice as fast.
ProMotion will have to wait until Thunderbolt 5 comes out, perhaps this fall. Even then, it is not clear if anyone is making a panel that large with that high a refresh rate with 6K resolution.
A great idea that will never happen. If anything, Apple would even make the display cable unremovable in the next iteration and continue software-only display adjustments that shut out PCs.
Four years old and still charging the same four year old price! At least they could start including the stand.
Apple simply does not do this. They will charge full price until the day they stop selling it. They will happily rake in those incredible margins for any buyer willing to pay the 4 year old MSRP on it.
Where do I buy a 6K display with >60Hz refresh? How is the image and build quality?
They may exist but not in a consumer-grade product like Dell or Apple.
That made me think of the time Scott Forstall was doing a keynote and they showed all of the carriers that supported MMS and they didn’t have AT&T listed. AT&T was still the exclusive US carrier of the iPhone.
“We have over X carriers in X countries that will be supporting MMS…”
(Audience laughs when they realize no AT&T)
They “may” exist? So it’s asinine to buy a product (XDR), when a better-spec’d version may not even exist? Genuinely confused at the logic being presented.
XDR continues to be absolutely amazing. No need for replacement 
Yep and that is probably the incident that has caused them to decide that all events will be pre-recorded from now on. Ever since then they have dropped lots of bombs like that (“you no longer have to deal with a SIM card!”) with no audience there to give the appropriate reaction.
My favorite part of that is that Tim didn’t have the guts to say it himself. Steve used to announce prices proudly.
This is one device I am ok with them updating slowly. They have a bad habit of sometimes releasing products then releasing a revised version less than a year later. I would be livid if I paid this much for a monitor only for Apple to release an updated version soon after. Monitor tech moves slowly enough. Just got to get this thing a high refresh rate which as another poster says will likely require new Mac hardware anyway.
