Apple Studio Display - what reviewers won't tell you...

I at least wanted to mention that all of the Mac Studio Studios displays are, the reviews are coming in and they're all over YouTube now. So I'm sure you guys have all seen some of them. But if I had to summarize the takeaways, I would probably summarize it the way, I hate to admit this, the way The Verge is. And that is Mac Studio Thumbs Up, Studio Display, Thumbs Down. I wouldn't say that I'm a solid thumbs down on the studio display. But if you guys come

taught my, my, my, my bit last week about what the studio display actually is. And just to summarize

I was close. I was a little bit off. I was comparing it to the M1 IMac and how they had basically

just increased the resolution from 4.5k to 5k and then increase the size from 24 inches to 27 inches

You're literally getting an IMA without the, without the Mac part for a higher price

But that's not quite right. What's, what is more true is it's literally the, the, um, the 27 inch

iMac, the 5K display from the 27 inch iMac in a M1 iMac body that's a little larger

And then they raise the price on you. And that's pretty much what it is. So I think a lot of people

are kind of an agreement that the studio display is beautiful. And it's uniquely Apple. It's built

very well. It has that aesthetic that we all love. It has the built in speakers. It works perfectly

with your Mac Studio. But it's not worth $1,600. I mean, I mentioned this last week

I got a discount on mine. Thankfully, it was a, it was a substantial discount

I'll just put it that way. And it really helped me make the purchase. But so I ended up getting the, the studio display at $1,200 bucks

Even at $1,200 bucks, I was like, I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure

Because you can get the LG Ultrafine 5K, which is, is pretty much the same display quality

And it's minus some of the features that you get from Apple for $1,300. But you can get that display for, you know, $1,100 if you know where to look

And I think that's what Apple was going off of when they priced their studio display

They were pricing it off of the LG Ultra Fine. And there's just not a lot of 5K displays out there, period, at 27 inches or any other size

So Apple's got a unique resolution, especially when you consider that it's retina quality

So they just don't have a lot of competition in that space. But if you don't need 5K, I think the consensus is you can get an HDR monitor that's

4K for a cheaper price and a larger screen and be perfectly happy

So if you don't have a specific use case or need for 5K, you'd probably be better off getting

a 4K display. It will be cheaper. You can get one that's larger

I mean, I have all the bills and whistles, but it's going to be a lot less expensive

and you'll probably be pretty happy with it. The only thing I would caution against is

MacOS doesn't render text extremely well at less than retina qualities. So your text may not look the best

but I think for a lot of people, they may not even notice. So it's up to you

I'm just going to give you the information. Do with that what you want. I have pre-ordered the studio display

I'm waiting to get my hands on it and I'll make my decision once I've had the chance

to try it out. But the thing about all these reviews is you got to keep in mind that Apple is really

smart about YouTube these days They send out these products to all of these reviewers really And all these people will always say oh I got the product for free but it doesn influence my opinion at all Yeah dude

I'm a product reviewer. I will tell you the truth. It does impact your opinion

Because in the back of your mind, well, for two reasons. One, you didn't have to pay for it, right

It's much more painful if you buy something. Well, a lot of the professional reviews, they return them

You know, they return the product. It's not theirs. They don't get it to keep. It's not free

That's true. That's true. That's true. But I guess my point being like if you had paid for it

then, and you found something that you didn't like, you would really be unhappy because now you're out the money, right

I think it's the other way. I think, you know, I think a lot of people who pay for something, they bend over back because they justify their purchase

I mean, how many times you go to the movie theater and you hate the movie, but you're going to sit through it because you just spent, you know, $16 on the ticket and another $20 on candy and rubbish, you know

So you're determined to get your money's worth. I think that definitely

happens with people who buy stuff. I mean, they, they, they try to ignore the defects

because, you know, they don't want to feel like they got ripped off. That's interesting

because I feel like for me, I, I hate when I spend money on something and it ends up not

living up to the standard I had expected it to live up to. And then I'm very vocal about that

you know? If it's a real lemon, yeah, for sure, you can, but if it's like, if there's a few flaws, if there's a few things that you don't like, you know, I think you tend to sort of ignore

that stuff. I mean, not in every case, but something. But often, you know, I just think the logic is the opposite

I think if someone's getting something for free, they don't value it at all. Yeah, well, the other thing about getting these reviews or getting these review units, and even if they have to return them

And I don't mean to cash a to any of these people, I would probably do the exact same thing, but it's access journalism, right

Like, in the back of your mind, you know if you really, if you really lay into something, if there's a really serious problem and you're like, this is a big deal, you are more

you are more apt, you are more inclined to temper your actual feedback about a product or your

actual opinion about a product because you know if you're too harsh on it, then you probably

won't get access again in the future. And these people's channels depend on getting early access

to products because they get the product before anyone else. Everyone wants to know what to think

about the Mac Studio or the studio display. And so they go to your channel to hear your opinion

And YouTube is so competitive these days that getting this early access is literally gold

I mean, it just gets you tons of clicks. So again, I'm not criticizing any of these people

I would do the exact same thing. I just think that you got to keep that in mind when you're watching their reviews because the reviews are going to be positive. And that's why Apple does it

They want to fill YouTube with positive reviews of their products so that people go out and

buy the products. I think the real reviews are going to come in in the next 30 to 60 days. Yes

the manager. Well, I haven't said that, I think, you know, a lot of the early reviews of the studio display are pretty fair. You know, I think people point out that it's an older display

that it's pretty pricey, and that it has a few shortcomings. You know, you're not getting

you're not getting an XDR display here. But then again, you know, like, Omalek had an interesting

piece about the display saying that, you know, this thing is actually sort of a basically

a mini computer with its own processor, and it's running some sort of custom iOS-type

operating system, which isn't iOS, but it's, you know, it does a lot of processing for the

speakers for doing spatial audio, you can airplay to it when the computer's asleep

So the thing is like, you know, it's almost, it doesn't do a whole bunch of stuff, but it

sort of sits independently of the machine. So you're, you know, wherever you got plugged into it, it can be totally asleep, and you

can still use a display because it's got its own chip. And he saying that this is like you know a glimpse of the future like where a lot of you know everything is going to get at a chip everything going to get a display This is also like AR and VR you know like a precursor to that because you know

it's going to be, they're doing all this spatial and 3D, you know, sound and visual computing

on the display. So, you know, even though it's on old display, it's, he still likes it

He uses an XDR display and said that this thing is like even, you know, it's not, it's

it's nowhere near the quality of the XDR. But look at the price difference, you know, for the money, he thinks it's still a good deal

which I thought, you know, not maybe sure. When you compare it to the pro XDR, I mean, of course, it's going to feel like a good deal because they got your price anchored at $5,000. And you're like, this one's only $1,600. But I'm not looking at it from that perspective. I'm looking at it from a what can you get in the monitor world for $600? There's a lot of monitors out there that have features that are going to be better for video editing. And that's the perspective that I'm looking at this from than this particular monitor. This monitor doesn't do HDR. It doesn't have promotion. I mean, there's just a lot of things that it seems

like it's missing for that price tag. It's only 27 inches. Like, you get a 32-inch 4K monitor for way

less money and it won't have the polish of this monitor for sure, but it's going to be a

beautiful display and it may cost a third of the price. So it depends on what you need. But yeah

when you think about it in terms of, well, the pro XDR is $5,000. It's like, okay. And, you know

speaking to the whole it has an A13 chip inside, people are impressed with that. I honestly, I think

that's kind of unimportant. It's erroneous. It's like if you have a Mac

any Mac can process, well, let me rephrase this. Any new Mac can give you the

capabilities that the A13 chip in this display is giving you. It seems to me. So the only reason

that an A13 is present in this monitor is because Apple wants to make, Hey, Siri and the

really super high quality FaceTime camera, uh, computational HDR and all that

stuff available to older Macs. So it will enable those features on older Macs because a newer

Mac can do that without having an A13 ship to run that stuff. Right. Like if you plugged your

newer Mac into this monitor or into any monitor, you still have hey, hey Siri. I'm sorry

I'm saying it to everyone. Sorry, forgive me. Hey, you know who. Capabilities. So it seems like

you're paying for a feature that a lot of people may not necessarily be using because they have a

newer Mac. That's the way it seems to me. Anyway, I don't mean to bag on the, The studio display

Look at my, you know, who is now going crazy. It's all listening to me

Here, I'll solve it for you guys. Stop. There goes. I saw all your problems

What's that? Yes, Leander. No, so what about the Mac Studio? Mac Studio

Everyone loves it. I mean, it's just, it's ridiculously overpowered. And, in fact, that's been the thing about the M1 Ultra that everyone has said so far

It's like almost unanimous. is it's more power than you need. It's more power than you'll probably ever use

And I don't know about you guys, but I'm okay with that. I don't mind having that extra power that I probably won't use for one or two years

I mean, that's the whole point of it. And if you use Final Cut Pro, it's going to be a dream machine for you

It's just going to, because Final Cut Pro will take advantage of all the extra cores

and give you that time savings because you have all that extra computational power

And there's a lot of benchmarks in all these reviews. I won't dive into all of them right now. You guys can go and watch them yourself

But if you are a video editor or you're doing a lot of image editing or something like that

then these extra cores are probably going to benefit you in a big way In fact you probably won even get close to maxing out this machine anytime soon because it just way more power than even even even high volume YouTube

creators need at this point, which I was surprised to find out. I thought surely someone like

MKBHD or someone who's creating like really high end videos, high pixel videos, long videos

is going to be able to max this machine out and and even creators like that are getting nowhere

near the capabilities of the Mac Studio. So I'm super excited for mine

The one thing I will mention is two things about the Mac Studio that you probably would

want to know is, first of all, the HDMI port on the back is only HDMI 2.0

So if you have a higher refresh rate display, the Mac Studio won't be able to power that

higher refresh rate. It's locked at 60 hertz. So there's that for you

So even if the studio display, was promotion, the Mac Studio couldn't take advantage of that extra refresh rate because

it's what people are using then? The, the H.GMI port, you wouldn't want to plug it into a

thunderbolt port? Oh, you know what? That's actually a good point. Yeah. So if you're using a

Thunderbolt port, I'm not sure what capability that has for refresh rate. That's a great point

I didn't even think about that. I'm not sure why. I figured the HGMI was like output it to a TV or something

Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're right. So if you plug it into Thunderbolt port, I'm glad that you brought that up. It probably is a lot higher. I'm not sure. I haven't heard anyone speak to that. The other thing I would mention is it seems like the amount of power you get out of the M1 Max in the Macs studio is actually higher than the MacBul Pro. And credit to Max Tech for talking about this is when you're looking at the keynotes between the

the M1 Max in the MacBook Pro and the M1 Max in the Mac Studio

the Mac Studio M1Mex is using more power, which is interesting. Why would it use more power

Well, to me, that indicates that's because they're able to run it at a faster clock

so they have to give it more power, and they're able to cool it better. So you get more power out of an M1 Max in the Macs studio

than you do in the MacBook Pro. Now, that's not confirmed. I'm not totally sure if that's going to be the case

but that looks to be the case at this point, which is really interesting. That means that they are nerfing the Macs Studio

or the M1 Max and the MacBook Pro because they just can't cool it well enough

to really give you all the power that chip is capable of

So I'll be really curious to see when the benchmarks come out of the M1 Max Max Studio versus the M1 Max MacBook Pro

I can't believe I said that without fumbling over my words. Right, exactly. impressive

Does that make sense? So it looks like if you get the M1 Max, not only or in the Mac Studio

not only is it going to cost you less than it would be if it were in the MacBook Pro

but it might actually be faster, which would be pretty insane. I mean, that would just increase the value even more because I think I said last week

an M1 Max, Mac Studio is $2,400. And the same power in the MacBook Pro is $3,500

Now you get a lot more with the MacBook Pro. You get the display, the keyboard, and everything, right

So there's more to it. But if you just need the power and you already have a keyboard and you already have a display

then the M1 Max Studio, Mac Studio, is a really great deal

because you're getting the same power, possibly even more, for $1,000 less