Both have the stock stand adding a stand with height adjustment costs another $400 for some reason. We have two Studio Display review units: the standard $1,599 model and the $1,899 model with Apple’s nanotexture matte glass. Considering the very recent history of miserable Mac webcams that has only just started improving, this is quite a pitch. The pitch, at least on paper, is that you get a 5K display that can display macOS at pixel-perfect resolution with no scaling issues, combined with webcam quality that matches Apple’s world-beating iOS devices.

The Studio Display is more accessibly priced at $1,599, which is still expensive, but at least defensible when you consider that the only other 5K display available is the old and finicky LG Ultrafine 5K, which lists for $1,299.Īpple also made some grand promises about the Studio Display’s audio and video capabilities: it has six speakers, three microphones, and a 12-megapixel camera that are all run by an A13 chip - the same sort of front camera and chip you might find in an iPad. The Studio Display marks Apple’s first entry in the mainstream display market in a long time - the company released the Pro Display XDR in 2020, but its $4,999 price tag meant it was decidedly for professionals. You can see our first impressions here and when the final software is released we will update this review.)īuy for $1,599.00 from Apple Buy for $1,599.00 from B&H Photo ( Editor’s note: Apple has released a beta software update for the Studio Display’s camera. And so far, the Studio Display’s headline webcam feature works so badly that it’s virtually unusable. Unfortunately, a lot of things have happened since 2014. If the Mac Studio represents the fulfillment of a 20-year-old Mac power user’s dream, the Studio Display should be the fulfillment of a similar dream that’s been around since 2014: just give us the iMac’s 27-inch 5K display.

So now Apple’s gone and discontinued the 27-inch iMac and essentially replaced it with the new Mac Studio and the new 27-inch Studio Display. When that first 27-inch 5K iMac came out in 2014, the display was so far ahead of the competition that buying one for the screen alone represented a bargain - that there was an entire computer attached to it was almost a bonus. Look, people have wanted Apple to sell the 5K display from the now-discontinued 27-inch iMac as a standalone product for years now.

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