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I might not be a big fan of Apple, but

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I am a big fan of displays. So, of course, when they unveiled the new

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Studio Display, we had to get one. But,

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hold on, because

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we also had to get the new Studio Display XDR, which notably doesn't have

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Pro in the name anymore for some reason, but who cares because it's allegedly

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very, very nice. And I want to see it for myself before I, you know, complain

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about how much it costs. So, let's unbox these guys. We'll start with the Studio

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Display. This one, to be perfectly frank, is actually really similar to the

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old one. It's 5K, 27 in,

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60 Hz, oh baby, and comes with the stand

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attached. A nice little paper cover. I like how light it is. It's really easy

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to carry. Inside here, we've just got what looks

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to be a USB-C cable. This is a 1 m Thunderbolt 5 Pro cable. The Pro comes

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from the sleeving and whatnot. This is expensive. For the 1 m version, it is a

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very nice $69 US. Uh so, you're getting

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that in the box. Considering the monitor is expensive, good. We'll get to price

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later. Let's take a look at what else we've got cuz there's some kind of box

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strapped to the back of this. This just holds the cable.

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You know, that's kind of fun. A little pointless and wasteful, uh but I

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actually really enjoyed just unraveling the cable out of the box as I pulled it

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away. I don't know why, but I did. And then this just pulls out because it's,

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you know, it's got these indents here so you can actually put it back in nicely

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without ruining the packaging again. I love and hate this at the same time.

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I'll take the fancy peel off with the

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paper, and it just comes off so nicely

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and you can actually keep this nice and pretty if you ever want to sell your

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display later or put it away nicely or something, you know. I'm just going to

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set this over here. Ooh.

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Also stays in very nice shape and becomes very easy to reapply. This is

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something I would love TV and monitor

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manufacturers to do because, you know, you already save Well, I don't know

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about you guys, I tend to save my boxes in case I have to move. I hate that I

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can't reapply the peel. And the foam wrap that comes with a lot of displays,

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it's nice, but this makes me feel a bit more comfortable. All you get is tilt.

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That's it. Anything else, you got to move the whole monitor around. You can

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get the upgraded stand, but it's going to cost you like $400. And if you do it

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after the fact, I don't know how easy it is to see on camera, but this is like very integrated. I don't trust myself to

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take this apart and put the new one on here. So, you're going to have to send it to Apple. It's going to cost you more

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money. Make the decision before you order it from the store. I mean, the

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reality is, you know, it's pretty light and it's easy to rotate around. So, like this isn't the end of the world. My main

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issue is height adjustment. There is zero height adjustment on this thing out

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of the box, and like that's a big deal. Oh, you can't pivot

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it either. But like, those things are nice to have, but if you don't have

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height adjustment, that's kind of make or break, at least in my opinion. She's

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kind of thick, but you know, it's also not OLED, so this is actually pretty

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reasonable. And this is the regular coating one. The XDR that we're going to

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look at later, we did get the nano texture glass. So, we'll take a look at those side by side so you can decide for

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yourself what coating you want. Let's take a look at everything else. The only

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other major upgrade we've got is the uh

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new camera. It's still the same 12-megapixel Center Stage camera, but

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now we've got the desk view. How much you'll actually use the desk view, I

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don't really know. It seems more of something that they kind of just tacked on during production. We've got

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ventilation at the top here. I don't know if these are speaker grills or not.

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There's no more cheese grater mesh at the back that a lot of people are, you

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know, love or hate on. So, that's gone. Nice Apple logo on the back here.

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Everything's just clean. I'll give Apple that. Their design is very, very clean

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and like user neutral. I don't even want to say user friendly, at least in terms

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of just aesthetics. It's like user neutral. On the back, we've got not one,

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not two, but four USB-C ports. These are

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both Thunderbolt 5. One's for your display in, and the other's meant for

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daisy chaining if you want to hook up multiple monitors off of like one cable

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solution. You could also use it for a dock considering, you know, these don't have KVMs built in. Especially cuz

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there's no USB-A ports

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anywhere. Another main difference between the regular Studio Display and

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the XDR is that the power delivery on this guy's only 96 W. So, while that is

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going to charge most of your devices, you might struggle a bit if you're

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trying to both charge the battery at the same time as you're trying to do some

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kind of like really intense workload. You know, it'll work and it'll trickle charge, but

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you're not going to get the full fat. But, enough about the less expensive,

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but still expensive option. Let's take a look at the one we've all

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been waiting for, the Studio Display XDR.

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Oh, wow. Okay, this is a way better experience if you follow the instructions. Okay, pull that back,

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and then push this forward with the arrows.

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Wow, and then this opens right up. Inside, we've got nice monitor.

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Oh, baby. We've got the same

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Thunderbolt 5 Pro cable, and the same Oh, no, there's something

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else here. You get the fancy Apple polishing cloth

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when you get the nano texture glass on a device.

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I think you should get it anyway. It costs $20, which is also kind of wild.

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And they even have a compatibility list to show you just what it's compatible

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with. It's a microfiber cloth. It's compatible with everything. There's

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nothing else in the box despite being, you know, there's multiple other boxes.

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Like there's nothing in here. On the one hand, yeah, sure. It feels very

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protective, especially for a display that costs as much as this one does. But

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on the other hand, like really, you guys? Like this just seems

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kind of wasteful to me, and um I get that it's recyclable, which is which is

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good. There's no foam in here, but it just still seems like a lot of waste.

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Oh, well. Let's look at the monitor. We've got more box around the back here, even more

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packaging. Unlike most of our other packaging, I mean, I guess that has a purpose, too. But this has a purpose,

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you know, it's to make sure that this doesn't just kind of

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spring up on its own during shipment.

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This one also had a peel. You know, we had a few complications

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when we're taking it off, but that's okay. It will come protected when it shows up at your doorstep. Brad likes

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the matte coating. I don't. I'm a very much a glossy kind of boy, and um I

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instantly dislike this compared to the other one, at least with no content on.

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Content displaying, this is going to look way better. We're talking mini LED

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with like over 2,000 local dimming zones. It hits like 2,000 nits peak, and

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it can do about 1,000 nits sustained full screen. So, it costs a pretty

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penny, but I'm actually pretty excited for this. The stand is much better in

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the sense that it has height adjustment, which is good. I'm kind of sad that

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that's like a selling feature, but here we are. One of the main advantages

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though of this stand is that it doesn't cost $1,000. So, this time,

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if you're buying your Studio Display XDR, you don't have to just look at the

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price and then do mental math of a thousand plus dollars if you want it to

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come with the stand. So, thanks, Apple. That's cool. And then it's got that same

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cable box on the back that I enjoy unraveling. Wow, look at me go, papa. It

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looks basically identical to the other one. I mean, you can't You still can't

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rotate it. You still can't pivot, but at least we have height adjustment now. And

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uh can we angle? We can still angle, so that's pretty cool. Still got the same

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cable coming out the back that doesn't want to disconnect on its own.

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Otherwise, yeah, it's the same IO on the back here. Just four USB Type-C, but

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these two here are Thunderbolt 5 again. This time with the max rating of 140 W

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power delivery. And yeah, otherwise, it really is just almost the exact same.

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Let me get this side by side cuz I want to look at the nano

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coating. The XDR is ever so slightly

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thicker. We are talking about like millimeters here, people. The only other

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major difference is the grills here. Like this has about twice the speaker

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grills as this one does, or cooling. Still not sure, but either way, oh, it

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probably is cooling cuz this is going to go to like 2,000 nits versus this is

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only doing about 600. But I still haven't seen the coating.

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Yeah, like I'm sure with content, it'll be a little different. The glossy still

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does have an anti-reflective coating on it. It's not doing a whole lot of

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anti-reflecting, whereas the nano texture glass, I got to say, zero

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basically zero reflection here. You get the cloth, I guess,

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but it's an extra $300 for the nano

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texture and a $20 cloth. So, you make your own decision. I definitely

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think that there is a use case for either. I'm not going to know which one

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I like more though until I turn them on and actually watch content on each of

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If you don't have any source material, they don't show anything except for this, which tells you, "Hey, plug

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something in." As someone who wants to troubleshoot things, I don't like that.

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There's also like zero uh navigation for an OSD or anything because it's all done

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through software. As a person who loves PCs and normal displays that have all

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that stuff on board, um it's a little disappointing to see that. What happens

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if both your devices break? You don't know for sure if it's the

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monitor or not. You want to just test one thing at a time. You can't do that. So, you got to take it to the Apple

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Store and spend more money. Alas. Let's uh daisy chain these bad boys so that we

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can look at the same content on both of them at the same time. We've got our

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MacBook plugged in. I will say, this is just the lock screen, you know, so we

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get some cool motion effects. But I do prefer the regular glossy display over

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the nano texture glass. Uh you know, with both displays set to

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whatever brightness they're at and they're pretty matched up right now. Yeah, I kind of like the one on the left

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more. I I don't know. But let's put uh let's put some more content on them.

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Let's watch some HDR footage. These are both set to HDR and running HDR content,

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but there's a little bit of a problem here. The

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XDR is using Apple's 2026 CMF.

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So it's going to be running at a slightly different white point than the

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1931 CIE that's going to be on this guy

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and frankly most displays. Aside from that, this one looks way better. I mean,

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it should. It's a significantly more expensive display. But when you get

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dimming zones involved, um like this is HDR, but like it's really not cuz it's

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just, you know, full screen brightness, whatever. Uh whereas this actually has

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like highlights and dark zones and um IT

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JUST HOWEVER, ALL OF THE ACTUAL REFERENCE

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modes on the XDR are still using CIE 1931, which is the most common one that

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you're going to find on pretty much every other display except

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for I think the Sony Bravia that we tested like a couple months back.

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They're trying to do their own thing, too. But I've really got to say that uh

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it's kind of no contest, right? The XDR just looks so much better. I mean, the

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blues look more vibrant on this building. You get actual dimming zones.

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Oh, I want to see if I can spot them now in like content. No, it's a lot harder

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on an actual video. Like I mentioned before, these are both 5K displays. So

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we're getting a solid 218 PPI, which is

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actually really good. They've also both got speakers, which is always a plus.

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And they're using the A19 chips with the A19 Pro going in the XDR just for the,

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you know, some better image processing. The other major downside if you're

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trying to decide between these two displays and you think, well, you know,

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I could save a couple grand. Unfortunately, what you're also not getting when you

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save that money is higher refresh rate cuz this guy caps out at 60 hertz and it

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also caps out around 600 nits of brightness, which is a little

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disappointing. Whereas with the XDR,

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you're getting 120 hertz and you're getting that sweet sweet 2000 nit peak

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brightness I mentioned earlier. And when you spend a bit extra on the X Well,

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when you spend a lot extra on the XDR, you're also getting Adobe RGB and DICOM

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for anyone who's, you know, in the medical field. It might not matter to

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you, but for professionals buying these displays, that's probably going to be a

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big make or break part of the decision. Now, as for color accuracy, I'm happy to

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say that they're both relatively color accurate. In internet and web sRGB

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reference mode, our studio display

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regular measured a delta E average of under one, which is very impressive. And

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then the max was under two. It was like 1.81. And then as for the XDR, we got

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almost the same results. A little bit higher on the average, a little bit less

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on the max. Still well under the delta E 2000 of two that you want to get. As for

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HDR, the studio display it supports HDR, but it doesn't really

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do it. Um you don't have dimming zones.

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It's going to be a bad experience. We did not measure it. But the XDR display,

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we measured HDR video reference mode and we got a delta E ITP measurement average

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of 2.35 with a max of under five. That's

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impressive. The only thing that we've ever measured that's better than that is

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the iPad with the tandem OLED display. It's certainly not perfect, you know,

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it's only going to do 2000 nits, which I mean, sure, that's still pretty good for

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a monitor these days. Uh but there are other displays coming

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out that are getting even brighter. It actually does have quite good contrast.

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It's not an OLED killer, but you know, it's pretty solid. I would like more

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dimming zones. 2000 is still a lot for a display this size, but like

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it's just tough to beat OLED when they've got per pixel dimming. But I digress. What I really want to know is,

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can I game on the 120 hertz

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Apple Studio Display XDR? Of course I can. Let's do it. One problem with using

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this with a Windows device instead of Apple is

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I can't really adjust anything anymore. So if you have a MacBook, you can plug

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that in, change things, and then hook it up to your computer and it will keep all

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of those settings, which is on one hand kind of cool. On the other hand, it's

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infuriating that there's not just physical buttons I can sit here and

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fiddle with to fix whatever brightness settings I want to change. Another minor

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thing is like HDR is just acting kind of funky with Windows. Steam, I don't know

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if you can really pick this up on camera, but the Steam overlay like

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flickers a little bit when I change Windows. So let's just load up Cyberpunk

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and see how it looks. All right, here we go. Cyberpunk, it's at 4K. We're using

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uh pretty janky adapter, but that's all right. We still got 4K 120. Everything's

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working and it is beautiful.

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Like straight up. It's it's a really good HDR experience. The screen is very

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bright. It's very vibrant. It looks absolutely stunning. I think we measured

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something like a 12 millisecond gray to gray, which is not great. But like this

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is gameable, especially if I wasn't playing a first-person shooter and I was

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playing something more third-person or just a little less, you know, fast-paced

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than Cyberpunk. At 120 hertz, we measured um just a couple milliseconds

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over the theoretical perfect. So it's still getting, you know, there's not a

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whole lot of extra latency, which is always great. I definitely wish the motion was better. As someone who is

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spoiled, I notice it. But the highlights

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on the gun, the highlights on the car, the sky, the colors, like the HDR

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experience is genuinely fantastic on a display like

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this. Let's talk about the price now because you're paying a lot for it. For

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the regular studio display, you're paying about $1600.

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Admittedly, it's 5K on a 27-in panel, so that's, you know, 218 PPI. But

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considering it's 2026 and you're paying over a thousand dollars, I really would

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have liked to see 120 hertz. It just

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it feels bad. I don't care if there's a camera built in. I don't care if there's

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speakers built in. 60 hertz spending over that like that

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kind of No, that's just unacceptable. The XDR has 120 hertz. The XDR costs

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about twice as much at $3300.

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Our model with the nano texture glass cost a little more than that. Uh I'm

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just glad they don't cost $5000 plus an extra grand for the stand. It's nice to

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see not only the display tech get better by quite a bit, to be frank, while also

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seeing a price cut. But 3300 bucks still

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feels like a lot in this day and age. I don't know you guys. The reality is

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Apple's still going to sell a ton of both the XDR and the non-XDR model and I

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can't say I blame them cuz they're pretty nice. They're just, you know, they're overpriced. But if you're

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already an Apple user, you know, you want to stay in the ecosystem, I guess.

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Can I recommend it? No, I can't. Like the price is just astronomical. Can I

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tell you it's a good display? Absolutely. Both of them. They both look

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really good. They both tested well. I just, you know, I can't put my rubber

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stamp on that and not when the price is so high. Thanks for watching, guys. This is the

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Studio Display and Studio Display XDR. If you want to see another video, um

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look at the one of the tandem OLEDs I

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checked out recently. Those are pretty nice, too. And hey, they're coming down in price.

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You can get an OLED gaming monitor for a lot less than a thousand dollars these

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days.