hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this is the new apple studio display
this arrived yesterday in the mail so i thought i'd show you what it looks like
when you unbox it from the mail as well so let's go ahead and pull this pull tab
there we go and there's the display itself so it looks like we can lay this down and then the box
just sort of opens up so looks like it opens up like that and that's how it comes from the mail so
let's go ahead and take the box itself out and then we'll take a closer look around it as you can
see it says studio display and i actually picked up the cheapest one the 1599 dollar version now
this can come in a couple different configurations up to 18.99 with the nano texture glass
and then you can also add an additional 400 to get a height adjustable tilt display so this just has
the standard display it's 15.99 now let's go ahead and open it up just pull this little tab here
and let's see what we've got so we lay it down just like this this is very similar to an imac
open it up and you can see it says studio display so studio display you've got some arrows we'll
push out on these there we go it opens up and i guess we just pull out the display like this
so we'll set that aside here just over there let's see what we've got as far as
paperwork so inside here i guess we've got some paperwork right here just says studio display
sort of a quick start guide and then we've got two black apple stickers so sort of the pro apple
stickers and you've just got a couple little things in here talking about warranty and more
set that down and you can see it includes a thunderbolt cable so
these are always nice you just pull them no plastic or anything like that
and then this just comes out like that this is a nice braided thunderbolt cable as well
so it's braided around the outside edge and then just thunderbolt so it's about three feet or so
or a meter and they will offer a longer one later you do get a longer cable with the pro
display xdr as well so the display weighs 13.9 pounds or 6.3 kilograms
now if you get the tilt adjustable one it's 16.9 pounds or 7.7 kilograms so it's fairly heavy now
let's go ahead and see if we can remove this cover so on the back here i guess we just pull this off
so remove this
see if we can get around it there we go and then this just pulls off the top then we've
got a little backpack on the back see we just pull it like this there we go and one of the
interesting things is this actually doesn't have a detachable power cord so unlike a lot of
apple's other products they didn't use mag safe or anything else they just gave you this power cord
which is attached now it is nice and braided so as you can see it's the typical braided cord but
it's not detachable so as you can see you can't remove it and then of course we have our ports
we have a thunderbolt port and then three usbc on the bottom before we take the cover off the screen
we just have a vent across the entire bottom where it actually is for probably ventilation as well as
the speakers that are internal so we've got a tilt adjustable display so it's tilt adjustable
and you could have the height adjustable one but i normally put this on a monitor stand anyway
let's take off the front panel here the front plastic and see what we've got
and there we go now you can see it's a glossy display and i didn't go for the matte or nano
texture finish because i actually like the glossy display as long as you don't have windows behind
you so i don't have any windows behind me in fact they're in front of me and this is actually a 27
inch display so 5k retina display 5120 by 2880 at 218 pixels per inch it goes up to 600 nits
of brightness up to 1 billion colors wide color p3 and has true tone but not hdr it also has a bunch
of reference modes we'll take a look at when we connect it and then of course we have our webcam
here at the top now it's a 12 megapixel camera with a field of view of 122 degrees it's an f 2.4
aperture and supports center stage now obviously if you've seen some of the other reviews people
have been saying that it's not that great so we'll check that out in a moment but apple is saying
that they're going to update this as well one other thing i wanted to mention is compatibility
so whether you have an ipad pro like this one or maybe another ipad there is some compatible ipads
but it starts with the ipad air 5th generation that just came out also the ipad pro 11 inch
and ipad pro 12.9 third generation or later that's what's supported as far as ipads when it comes to
max you can see them here so basically from 2017 and later depending on the mac so imac pro 2017
2017 or later 21.5 inch imac and so on and then of course the mac pros and then 13 inch macbook pro
2016 and later and 15 inch 2016 and later so the ipads kind of lose out here a bit but for the most
part it should be pretty good let me go ahead and plug this in and we'll take a look at it now the
first thing i wanted to try is the ipad air 5th gen since it's supported i'm on the latest version
let's go ahead and plug it in and see what happens it does say that it's supported it made a sound
let me rotate it here and you can see it does not fill the entire screen but it actually works just
like you would expect so it does work with that maybe if we go into the webcam let's do that
spin it around and it's actually showing the webcam from the ipad so if i put my thumb
over it you can see that so it doesn't use the webcam from the studio display and if we go home
of course you can just use your ipad like this now also if we maybe play sound through it let's see
what that sounds like so i brought up my youtube video about this ipad air and the sound comes
through the speakers of the studio display so if i hit play this is the ipad here i have the brand
new blue color but we also have a few other color options space gray pink purple so it does work
just like you would expect that way but the webcam doesn't go through the ipad now let's plug in a
macbook so here i have the 14-inch macbook pro the latest version let's go ahead and plug it in
just like that and let's push it back here just a little bit and then i'll get my keyboard and
mouse we have the studio display connected to the macbook pro and it works seamlessly like you
would expect so we can use the brightness keys on the keyboard to go up and down up to 600 nits of
brightness and it's actually plenty bright but doesn't have hdr modes so if we turn this down
a little bit you'll see what it looks like there and then also we have volume control as well so
it's always nice to have that directly from your keyboard and integrated directly into your display
now if we go into the system preferences there should be some display modes as well so if we
go to displays and then under displays you'll see it says studio display and what it's connected to
and then of course we have scaled here so we can change the scale and then also we have some
presets so you can see all the different presets here from the p3 to 600 nits to digital cinema
photography internet and web and of course you can customize those as well to whatever you'd like
we do have true tone i tend to turn that off because i want it to look true to life
not the white of what the ambient light sensor is picking up but in general it looks great as far
as that goes and of course now we have universal control where we can use that with an ipad as well
so you can adjust this to whatever you'd like and of course automatically adjust brightness if you'd
like as well but no hdr modes unfortunately so let's see if we can watch an hdr video and then
also let's take a listen to the speakers and so as you can see here i have one of my hdr videos so
if we click on hdr we actually have the option for 2160p hdr so you can watch hdr it just won't be in
its full brightness necessarily that you get with say an iphone or one of the latest ipads pro or
pro display xdr now also let's take a listen to the speakers since many people are saying
they're quite good so here is one of my comparison videos i did just showing the 10r versus the 11
so take a listen to the speakers during the sort of photo montage or comparison
the speakers sound surprisingly good they're quite loud and i'm pretty impressed by them they're
definitely the best speakers of any display that apple has made so it has six speakers internally
and sounds really great now of course there's the webcam we need to take a look at that and
see what that looks like as well now here is the webcam with center stage so if i move over here
it will follow me around and if someone walks into the frame it will zoom out so you can
see everybody so it works pretty well i've been using center stage for a while with the ipad pro
and finally it's on a mac or at least a mac display anyway and this is great to have so
this is something i really appreciate them adding but as far as the quality of the webcam well it
actually looks okay it's not amazing but i wanted to have you see and hear what it sounds like as
well so let me switch to something where i can record it so here's the camera from the studio
display now i expect the microphones to sound great and of course let me know what you think
about them in the comments below but typically they've done a great job on the macbooks and more
with their studio mics within the different products that they have so the display and
the macbook and more but this webcam does not look great it's actually very grainy
and we're on maximum recording settings so it should be the highest quality possible right now
now apple did say they're going to update this a little bit later and fix this and i expect
they can do that since we have better quality from a same megapixel camera on an iphone so
i would expect them to do that but right now it doesn't look great hopefully they'll fix this
pretty quickly with an update and the studio display is said to be running ios 15.4 or some
version of it since it's using the a13 bionic so they definitely could just push an update
and hopefully we'll see that very soon the studio display is 27 inches where the pro display is 32.
this gives you an idea of size difference with real estate between both of them so you have the
same size window i opened it on the studio display opened a new one and just dragged it over to the
pro display so you definitely get some more real estate as far as the overall display goes
of course it's 6k versus 5k as well so it's a little bit nicer as far as that part goes and the
studio display looks good but the pro display is leaps better and should be for its cost now both
of these are 60 hertz and there's some complaints about this as well so scrolling is nice and smooth
it's what you would expect on these displays the same is true for the pro display xdr 60 hertz
so we don't have 120 hertz refresh rate or anything like that i expect apple will release
maybe an updated pro display xdr with that sort of feature with maybe 120 hertz however if you're
editing video or photos that doesn't make too much of a difference as we're typically editing at 24
30 or 60 frames per second so most people don't even do 60 frames most are in 24-30 so for editing
video like that it really makes no difference whatsoever but if you were to play games of course
or just scrolling in general it definitely makes a difference so that's something that
we haven't seen it's a little bit disappointing but maybe we'll see that in future revisions but
for the price it's something i would have hoped they'd included as well as maybe a
little bit brighter but maybe we'll see that in future revisions now with the lights dimmed
you can see that the studio display has sort of a light gray background i have the same background
on the pro display xdr it just looks like it's turned off until i drag my mouse over here so
you can see local dimming zones as it follows the mouse cursor around but other than that it looks
completely dark or black and as we go over to the studio display it looks a little bit more of a
light gray now i don't see a lot of bleed around the outside edges as far as light getting through
so it looks like it's built pretty well maybe a little bit down in the bottom left but in general
it's what you would expect with basically the lg 5k display as well and here's another example
another wallpaper or black background i created that shows the difference between both displays so
again a light gray background on the studio display the pro display xdr is completely dark
with the exception of right around the edges of the line that i created here and of course the
circles as well so that gives you an idea of the difference between both displays one quick thing
to know is that the polishing cloth was not in the box with my studio display i noticed it was
in some other unboxings and i think that's because they had the nano texture display so i'm thinking
it doesn't come with the base one this is actually from the pro display xdr so it looks like with the
base model if you need that cloth you can buy it separately but it doesn't come with the base
model at least so if you did get it i'd love to hear from you in the comments below now i've been
thinking for the past few days while i was waiting for the studio display who this is really for and
why are so many people frustrated by this no it doesn't have 60 hertz no it's not a thousand nits
but it has some great benefits the 5k ultra fine is 300 less expensive than the base model of this
one but the build quality is terrible at least in my experience i used one in fact i had two
of them i returned them because i didn't like the way they looked they were buggy and i just
decided they weren't for me so i ended up getting something else an wide at that time and they just
weren't for me they looked okay and the display here looks great but the build was terrible
this has great speakers it's seamless it just plugs in and it works so that's enough for me
to upgrade from that to this model you get apple's sort of uniformity and just simplicity you've got
speakers and more but it's an expensive display so it's not for everyone it's for someone that wants
a seamless experience you plug it in it charges your mac and you're good to go otherwise there's
other options out there in this video you may have already seen a monitor in the background when i
was testing out the webcam that's a thousand nit monitor that can do 144 hertz so you can use it
for gaming and it goes super bright but it's not plug and play and it's not seamless and you can't
control it from your keyboard as far as brightness and sound so there's benefits back and forth and
what matters most to you i think a lot of people with mac studio will be happy with the display and
if they want they can step up to a pro display xdr there's lots of options out there though if that's
not what you like if you don't care about the design well then there's plenty of other options
if you care about all the things i've already mentioned well then the studio displays for you
i think it's that simple so if you want one pick one up i think they're great i'll be using it
in a different studio i use my pro display xdr here i'll use that one where i was using a benq
monitor before where it was just a bit of a pain the brightness wasn't right and it wasn't 100 as
accurate as far as adjusting it all the time it was just a little bit of a pain for me compared
to this where it's just more simple so i'm used to this it's what i like it's what i'll use but again
there's a ton of different options out there so i'd love to hear what you think about the studio
display are you picking one up what do you think about it as far as value and more i'd love to hear
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