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I haven't heard of that monitor, but looked it up as looked interesting - people say it has burn in, that it randomly turns off when using M1 Mac Mini, that you can't get full resolution on some Macs (though maybe they used wrong cables) and that can only update the firmware via Windows.

I think this is where Apple 'just does stuff right' - you know if you buy the Studio Monitor that it will just work, having built in webcam is really nice, I presume it will charge a laptop etc.

Price is steep though.

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FireBeyond|4 years ago

> that you can't get full resolution on some Macs

This is one area that Apple definitely does not "just do stuff right". Display Stream Compression has been broken (for Intel Macs) - and by broken I don't mean 'suboptimal', but "completely nonfunctional" ever since the first beta of Big Sur, and is to this day - is a well-known, documented issue (many users, multiple GPUs, differing monitors), though Apple has yet to acknowledge it.

My 2019 Mac Pro cheesegrater could, under Catalina, drive 4K monitors in 10 bit HDR at 144Hz.

As soon as Big Sur was installed, your options became HDR@60Hz or SDR@95Hz. Turn off DSC in the monitor and you get the DP1.2 bandwidth.

GekkePrutser|4 years ago

All IPS displays have some "burn in" but it's not permanent. It's image persistence. It was also commented on a lot with the first IPS MacBooks. It's a bit annoying but not a serious issue like (or CRT) burn in. And we have a good existing way of preventing it, the screen saver. Even if it does happen it goes away in a couple hours.

I think the studio display is really poor value though as previously you would get a whole computer included for pretty much the same price. The little extras really have to be in your corner to be worth it.