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What to Expect From Apple's Next Studio Display and Pro Display XDR
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Agree. Although - I would happily take a 32" 6K Studio display for ~$2k. The Prodisplay XDR is more than I need and it's at a price point that I could do, but won't because I'm not a graphics or media Pro.
One of the things that people seem to ask for is ProMotion but unless you're a gamer then high refresh rates just don't seem to matter as much as they seem to on iPhones or iPads. My MacBook Pro has ProMotion and I barely notice it, versus I find that a 60hz phone to be almost unusable.
I wish it was more cross-compatible with windows. I use my home desktop monitor with my personal MacBook, and with my work Dell Latitude laptop. I have a Dell 27" 4k monitor, and it works flawlessly with both.
I of course want a 120Hz Studio Display, but the Studio Display's 5K 60Hz is honestly perfectly fine for my workflow. At the time I got it I thought it being only 60Hz would be a big deal or feel laggy coming from 4K 120Hz, but honestly who cares. I can send Teams messages, browse the internet, send email, and write documents at 60Hz just fine.
If and when Apple has a high refresh 5-6K monitor out I may bite. May not. Already have a 4K 160Hz Mini-LED for gaming. It's not like Apple's hardware is pushing high refresh at 5K for gaming right now anyways outside of emulation.
If and when Apple has a high refresh 5-6K monitor out I may bite. May not. Already have a 4K 160Hz Mini-LED for gaming. It's not like Apple's hardware is pushing high refresh at 5K for gaming right now anyways outside of emulation.
The wide range of possible viewing positions would greatly add to the attractiveness of this concept
This is a little light on the XDR side of things. It is ~ a copy paste of this article.
It should have at least been noted that the last rumor cited on this site about the next XDR Pro Display was from over a year ago.
It should have at least been noted that the last rumor cited on this site about the next XDR Pro Display was from over a year ago.
ProMotion to me feels like mostly hype. All my devices do it asde from the studio display but i can’t tell the dif honestly. i pick up other peoples older phones all the time and don’t notice either. That being said I’ve been told i need it so much it makes me disappointed the studio doesn’t have it lol
After working with the MacBook Pro's mini-LED displays, I just can't bring myself to buy the Apple Studio Display because of its lack of HDR and either mini-LED or OLED. I want whatever gets me from zero to 1600 nits per pixel. The Pro Display is outdated. The ASD is 600 nits but it's panel-wide with no FALD/OLED.
Heck at this point I'd take the MBP display, even at the 16" size, as a standalone monitor; I'd buy several and hang them from monitor arms!
I guess what we'll get is double-stacked OLED, overpriced, a year from now at best.
Heck at this point I'd take the MBP display, even at the 16" size, as a standalone monitor; I'd buy several and hang them from monitor arms!
I guess what we'll get is double-stacked OLED, overpriced, a year from now at best.
Have you used a high refresh rate monitor?
Once you get used to it, going back to 60hz has a somewhat lethargic feel to the interactions, in comparison.
High refresh rates gives off an impression and experience and feel of a faster and more responsive machine.
The high hz experience is simply better.
It definitely needs to become the norm soon
Just my phone and my iPad Pro but when I upgraded to those I wasn’t like blown away or even noticed it much at all. I definitely saw the dif with 120hz tvs versus 60back in the day.
It seems like Thunderbolt 5 with up 120 Gbps 'Bandwidth boost' is required for 5K/6K at 120HZ external displays. We won't see Macs with that until M4 or even M5 in 2025/2026. I hope we see a miniLED Studio Display and OLED Pro Display XDR with ProMotion sooner rather than later, will pretty much be 'peak' display.
The Dell is not a real 5K display! It has only ca. 140PPI in comparision to the 220PPI of the Apple Studio Display. For users with a high demand for top quality, the Dell is not an alternative, and Dells half-5k-Display has only a matte coating, and that is very bad! For such high resolution displays a glossy display is a must!
They are expensive, but I don't think they are a poor value. I love mine and would buy another one without hesitation if I needed to.
More features poorly executed that disappoint, loud design, higher price. 
I just would like a 32" Studio Display no more than $2000 +$500 (nano/stand).
The XDR is just too much $. If Apple lowered the current model to half of the price when releasing an update, that would be awesome.
The 27" ASD is too small IMO.
The XDR is just too much $. If Apple lowered the current model to half of the price when releasing an update, that would be awesome.
The 27" ASD is too small IMO.
New regular studio display PLEASE. The current one is just a rehash of a very old LG monitor. No HDR. No local dimming. No mini-LED. Just nothing for $1600-$2000. It's basically a 10 year old monitor.
Please offer a 24 inch model. NOT everyone wants a huge tv-like monitor to work on.
I doubt we will see a 32 inch iMac. It doesn't make sense, the screen wont be cheap, and people tend to not want to throw away a good monitor to get an updated computer. The 24 inch iMac gets away with that because it's cute and relatively inexpensive.
a 32" iMac Pro? again, that role is filled with a Mac Studio and good monitor. Remember when the studio display came out? all the rumors were about a 27 inch iMac. I think we will see a new 32 inch display, not a 32 inch iMac.
a 32" iMac Pro? again, that role is filled with a Mac Studio and good monitor. Remember when the studio display came out? all the rumors were about a 27 inch iMac. I think we will see a new 32 inch display, not a 32 inch iMac.
My current mantra is that the ASD is half a Mac.
The ASD is not a product that Best Buy lines up on a shelf with the dozens of other monitors in the store.
The ASD, instead, is meant to be paired with a headless box: Mac Studio, Mac Pro, or Mac Mini.
Unfortunately, the marketers decided that "5K" was just a label to play with.
And the "K" in 2K, 4K, 5K, 6K, etc. is not about PPI. As used by most manufacturers, K=720. It's a count of lines in the height of the display. 720p is one of the standards that the ATSC came up with for defining the generation of television post NTSC. Computer makers picked up on it, as well as standardizing on the 16:9 aspect ratio of the ATSC, though many of us prefer the 16:10 or even 4:3 ratio for computers.
The Dell in question is a 2K monitor, 1440 lines.