So I have got the apple mac studio and along with that i've got the studio display
however what was if i told you i managed to get the display for under 300 well i'm gonna explain
how i've done this but first let's go over some features about the studio display so alongside
the actual mac studio apple announced a brand new studio display what is a 5k panel and funny enough
this is the exact same panel that we've had in the 27 inch imacs for the last few years in that 5k 27
inch version with the studio maxo you get some extra features we now actually have six speakers
built inside it we also have a center stage camera 12 megapixel camera and also there's an a13 bionic
sort of control bits and pieces like siri and also that center stage camera on top of this as well on
the rear we also have a thunderbolt 3 port what can be hooked up to the likes of your mac studio
your mac mini all your macbooks or any kind of mac that you have out there or even say an ipad what
has a usbc port and talk about usbc ports they're free on the back that allows you to connect things
like hard drives bits and pieces like this up to 10 gigabytes per second for each usbc port
was really really amazing the screen does come in though at a hefty price at 1 600 us dollars so it
is quite expensive so you're probably wondering at this stage why am i talking about 1 600
the video title says three hundred dollars so matt i want to know how you done that well let
me tell you a little secret and how i've managed to get this monitor for three hundred dollars
and that secret is this monitor is not the monitor i'm talking about there is another apple monitor
out there what you can get for less than three hundred dollars and basically it does almost
everything the same as what this monitor does right now let me introduce you to the
thunderbolt monitor it cost me 220 pounds what is less than 300 us dollars putting the thunderbolt
monitor next to the studio display yes you can see a few differences first of all the bezels
are about a third thicker on the thunderbolt display and that's probably the most obvious
thing however what was i told you that the thunderbolt monitor has such features like a
facetime camera for example also it has built-in speakers it actually has three speakers built in
and it's fully compatible with the likes of the mac studio and also the likes of the brand
new macbook pros out there with using this adapter converting it to a thunderbolt free
port the monitor always has other abilities like it can actually charge your macbook pro at 85
watts whereas the studio display actually charges at 96 watts so we're only talking 11 watts in it
also the fact that it has usb ports on the rear and these are standard sized ones as well so
so far this monitor is shaping up pretty good to be fair and for under 300 you can't really
go wrong but there's got to be a catch here hasn't there especially the new monitor cost
1 600 and this is under 300 so what are the key differences well let me explain them well
the first difference i want to talk about is the actual camera what's in the center of the display
on the thunderbolt one you get a 720p camera and then on the actual brand new cinema studio display
you actually get a 12 megapixel center stage camera well obviously is far more superior
but then having said that are you really going to be using center stage on this monitor and
would you pay 1 600 just for that you'd actually be better at buying the cheapest ipad out there
for 320 and you get center stage and the 12 megapixel camera inside that so another difference
is the speakers that are in both of these monitors so with the thunderbolt monitor we actually get
three speakers inside it we get one on the left we get one on the right and also we have an extra one
that gives out more sort of bassy noises where with the brand new cinema studio display we
actually have six speakers and apple have got some special bits and pieces going on there to make
that sound sound really really rich and that's helped with the a13 bionic what's actually inside
the actual monitor but to be deadly honest there isn't that much difference in the actual sound
quality have a listen here first of all i'll do the studio display with its six speakers
to play around with the last day or so it's been absolutely amazing i have loved the performance
on this but to be definitely honest with using this ipad air and now here's the thunderbolt
monitor with its free speakers to play around with it the last day or so it's been absolutely
amazing i have loved the performance on this but to be definitely honest with using this ipad air
can you even tell the difference well recording it i guess on the microphone i have right here is
not probably the best quality out there to pick up all the sounds and richness but i can tell you now
i cannot really tell the difference that much and by the way just to let you know
i did have my hearing tested about three months ago i've been told my hearing's absolutely fine
so generally there isn't that much in it so apple boasting it has got six speakers inside it yeah it
probably goes a little bit more louder than the other monitor but generally the actual quality
is superb in both of these monitors now next is the screen resolution if i show you both of the
monitors side by side here you cannot probably tell the difference whatsoever but i can tell
you this that the actual studio display has a 5k panel inside it and like i said this is the same
as the 27 inch imac that has been around for the last few years but the actual thunderbolt monitor
actually only has a 2k display inside there and straight away you're thinking well then that's the
reason why it's so much cheaper and that's why you should get the 5k panel but as i've been using the
5k panel over the last few days i've actually realized being that it's a 27 inch monitor
and my face isn't pressed up right against it and i have it a bit of a distance away from me
i cannot actually really tell the difference between both of these monitors i can actually
see there is an ever so slight difference with the new studio display but apart from that i wouldn't
really notice if you didn't tell me the actual thunderbolt display with that 2k display built
inside it is still really really amazing even in 2020 and as i said you're not going to be pressing
the screen right up to it looking for the pixels it is a genuinely really good panel and remember
the thing that i always come back to the studio display cost 1 dollars whereas the thunderbolt
monitor cost three hundred dollars there is a big difference in price there and yet the quality what
you get with that thunderbolt display for three hundred dollars is absolutely superb and it's
really really amazing so next i want to talk about ports but before i do that i want to talk about
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go back to the video so looking at the rear of the studio display you can see there's only four ports
on here one of those ports is a thunderbolt free port and this is the port that you hook up to your
mac studio or you hook up to say your macbook whatever mac you've got the other three ports
are allowed to be used to be plugged into say hard drive usb things bits and pieces and the
transfer speeds for each of those ports are 10 gigabits so it's really impressive and in line
in 2022 but switching over to the thunderbolt monitor what ports do we have on here well on
the back of this monitor what you actually have is a load of different ports first of all you
may have noticed we have an ethernet port and that ethernet port transfers data at one gigabyte per
second or one gigabit per second even and you may have noticed on the back there are three usb ports
and this is probably the little bit of the downer of this monitor these three ports are usb 2.0 but
don't let that discourage you right away remember if you have got yourself a mac studio for example
on the front you have usb c ports and there are also usb c ports on the rear of the mac studio
just like they're on the rear of the monitor of the cinema display or the studio display and again
you would have to still put your hand around and hook up devices into this so really there isn't
much difference there the same also if you've got yourself a macbook and you connect this up to this
thunderbolt display you will also still have your usb c ports on your actual macbook where you can
plug in your sort of really speedy hard drives or usb bits and pieces as well now as i did mention
at the beginning of this video to hook up this display to your mac studio or to the likes of your
macbook pro you will need to get an adapter to convert this from a thunderbolt 2 to a thunderbolt
3 and these cost around about 20 on amazon and in fact i'll hook one up in the description below
but you also have the ability to use a magsafe charger and again you can also buy an adapter
on the likes of ebay what will convert this mag save into usbc and again you can charge the likes
of say your macbook pros or your macbook air with this display and that is absolutely fantastic that
you can do this so in conclusion the new studio display is absolutely amazing however there is
an alternative for far far cheaper and it's also made by apple i do love the studio display but
the cost of it at 1 600 is quite a lot of money if this display came out at say about 500 or say 600
i probably would actually definitely say i'm definitely gonna keep this monitor but because
of the price tag it has got it's making me think do i even keep this monitor maybe this thunderbolt
monitor i should just keep this instead it's far cheaper it does everything i need it to do and
even buying those extras and adapters and bits and pieces like that it's not going to cost much more
to keep it and run this but i do still love that studio display i'm really really like i said on
the fence about this one so really i'm going to put it out to you guys what do you think do you
think i should keep the studio display or do you think i should keep my thunderbolt monitor yes
like i said the studio display is shiny it's new but in the day i'm not really probably gonna get
the full advantage out of it and the thunderbolt monitor can do exactly the same but there again
it's not shiny and new i'd love to know your thoughts in the comments below and let me know
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