Apple's unveiling of the Mac Studio had a monitor twist to it, in the form of the brand new Studio Display. This is a 27" 5K panel with a front-facing camera, hi-fi audio and, of course, a steep price. Let's dive in. The Studio Display comes with a built-in stand which lets you tilt it up to 30 degrees. Optionally, you can get a tilt and height adjustable stand with a counterbalancing arm, and a VESA mount adapter which supports both landscape and portrait orientation.
The screen itself is a 27" 5K panel
with 14.7 million pixels, 600 nits of brightness, Display P3 wide color gamut,
and support for over a billion colors. True Tone tech is incorporated as well,
automatically adjusting the color temperature as the environment around
changes. The Studio Display has "an industry-leading anti-reflective
coating" for "incredibly low reflectivity" for better comfort
and readability.
For workspaces with bright light sources
there's a nano-texture glass option. This glass, first introduced on the Apple
Pro Display XDR, scatters light to further minimize glare while still
delivering great image quality. The Studio Display has the A13 Bionic SoC built
into it to enable some "amazing experiences with its highly advanced
camera and audio system". There's a 12MP ultrawide camera with Center
Stage, the feature that automatically keeps you centered in the frame as you
move around.
There's also a "studio-quality"
three microphone array with a low noise floor "for crystal-clear calls and
voice recordings". But wait, there's more! A high-fidelity six-speaker
sound system built right in, which Apple calls "the best ever created for
Mac". Of those six speakers, four are force-cancelling woofers, which
minimize distortion to produce "bold, articulate bass", while the two
tweeters "create accurate mids and crisp highs". The speakers support
spatial audio for music and video with Dolby Atmos, for a "truly cinematic
viewing experience". Apple proudly boasts that the Studio Display has the
best combination of camera and audio ever put in a desktop monitor.
It has three 10GBps USB-C ports. A
Thunderbolt port lets you connect the Studio Display and any peripherals to
your Mac with a single cable, and the same cable can also deliver 96W of power
to a Mac laptop. In fact, the Studio Display will even fast-charge your
14" MacBook Pro. And you can connect up to three Studio Displays to one
MacBook Pro, if money is no object whatsoever.
Speaking of money, the Studio Display is
priced at US$ 1,599 for its base configuration. The nano-texture glass adds US$ 300
on top, while the more advanced stand pushes the total to US$ 2,299. In Europe
that translates to a starting price of € 1,749 and a top model version costing
€ 2,459. That's a lot, but hey - did you know that it uses 100% rare earth
elements in all magnets and recycled tin in the solder of its main logic board
and recycled aluminum and plastic in various other components? The Studio
Display is available to order today, and will make its debut in stores on March
18.
