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could apple have single-handedly disrupted an entire industry with the

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pro-display xdr cause here's the thing to mere mortals like you or me five

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thousand dollars for a monitor might seem like madness

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but compared to the professional-grade displays that apple has directly in

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their sites here it's a steal of a deal

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so let's experience it together and see for

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starting on the outside the pro display xdr's box is robustly built and like its

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partner in crime the mac pro has a fabric carrying handle that makes the

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whole thing feel decidedly sturdy and premium and that's a good thing because at five

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thousand dollars this thing ain't cheap once you open it up you're greeted by a

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power cable a Thunderbolt cable and a little note saying that you should be

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thankful that you even got that i'm just kidding about the last bit but it is

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true apple stopped their guns in spite of the criticism they faced and included

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no mounting hardware whatsoever in the box let's look at the sold separately

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mounting hardware the 200 vase amount adapter simply slots into place twist

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the lock clockwise to secure it and then you mount it like any normal vasa

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display done i can actually see why apple wanted to do their own mount for

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this because it is seriously easy to use and it's rock solid if you want to roll

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your own monitor ARM we've actually got affiliate links for a couple of

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recommended ones down below the bottom line here is that while it annoys me

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that apple doesn't include anything i can also respect that they didn't want

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to throw in pricey accessories that won't be used and given that they are

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going up against displays that cost tens of thousands of dollars another 300

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bucks isn't going to be a difference maker for a pro who wants a top-tier

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display with great ergonomics then there's also the pro stand option for a

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thousand dollars and the cold hard truth here is that this is a product for

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sucker wannabes who buy pro things to flex on their buddies i mean most of the

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professionals i know are not into less functionality for more money and while

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apple's claims of weightless adjustment and stability

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basically hold up i suspect that most real-world deployments of this display

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are going to use the vase adapter and a proper monitor ARM which is probably why

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apple opted to make this stand available separately at a luxury item price rather

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than just put it in the box but let's take a closer look at it

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anyway since i'm stuck with one now adjustments can be made with a single

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finger if you're a designer who's sick of moving around your imac to show your

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work to curious observers by the way that design lloyd's working on is

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available on lttstore.com but unfortunately there are a few problems

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with this first there's no horizontal adjustment available whatsoever so

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tilting the display left or right is going to require you to move the entire

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stand which can be particularly annoying with a multi-monitor setup especially if

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you need to angle one of them second the height adjust is not on a

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slider it's on a lever instead and this might seem like a non-issue but as you

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adjust the display up and down you're also moving it back and forth which

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means you might need to fiddle with how it sits on your desk it's just not that

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elegant now some people here didn't like the amount of play in the pivot

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mechanism but i didn't mind it you never know when your desk is going to be

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not quite level and i really appreciated the simple latch mechanism smooth

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rotation of the display and the satisfying click when it goes into place

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so that's all fine and good but what's it like to actually use

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on paper out of this world it's factory

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calibrated and apple is one manufacturer i actually trust to do a bang-up job of

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this it's got 576 local dimming zones and it's got

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reference modes for HDR print

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digital cinema and more it boasts incredibly deep blacks with advertised

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sustained brightness of 000 nits and peak brightness of 1600 nits and in

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person honestly it just kind of looks stunning

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the only thing that i felt i needed to change out of the box was true tones

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this is an apple feature that changes the on-screen colors according to

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ambient light and i i get having it supported

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and thankfully it is disabled in any of the reference profiles but i find it

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obnoxious enough on a phone and even for casual computer use i would prefer not

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to have the distraction fortunately it's easy enough to turn

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that off and change any reference modes that you want via the display applet in

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system preferences but that is going to be a problem

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the only way to control this monitor is through apple's system preferences

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there are no buttons or osd whatsoever

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so unlike the apple cinema displays of yesteryear

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on Windows your mileage with this bad boy will vary considerably

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now a mac running bootcamp does allow you to control the display with all the

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features you'd expect as in macOS but

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that little widget is not available for pc scrubs like us what's more the pro

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display xdr's Thunderbolt link makes use of apple's custom timing controller that

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utilizes two simultaneous DisplayPort links on a single type-c cable that's

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how they're achieving that astonishing 6k resolution so just like with lg's

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ultrafine 5k yeah you might be able to

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get it to display a picture with a Thunderbolt equipped pc by jumping

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through some hoops but good luck running full res

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using any of the selling points like all the pre-calibrated mode switching and

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i mean even adjusting the backlight so what that means for a pc shop like us is

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that right out of the gate even though they could have made it work apple has

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eliminated the option of upgrading all of our editing workstations to pro

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display xdrs so then make sure you guys get

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subscribed because we've actually worked out a deal to drop in on a local

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production studio with mac workstations to see what they think of it for today

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though we do have editors of our own and we do have a mac pro so let's see what

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they think so as soon as i opened final cut and it

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loaded all the HDR stuff i was like i'll never be satisfied with

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anything else ever again because this is the first time that i've

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seen like real HDR uh on any system the Windows

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implementation of it is total crap um so i feel jealous

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on this monitor i did not notice any bad fringing around stuff it looked great

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the only thing that really does annoy me about it is off-axis

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on the darker colors it does change brightness quite a lot but overall it's

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really nice no i don't think the color accuracy was

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sacrificed to get the HDR working i mean it's they built it for HDR if Linus

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media group had to start doing HDR

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i mean i guess we already have this monitor so we might as well use it

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but i just i really don't want to have to use macintosh i don't know the system

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very well anymore i don't wanna so there are a couple of things to note

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that we didn't originally plan for in this script it doesn't really like to

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run on a pc the other side of the coin is in macOS it's

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pretty much the only way to get HDR on your machine

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now there are external boxes aja makes

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one but for whatever reason apple's got it locked down and

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that's no good i've seen a couple of pictures showing that

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compared to the higher end displays it's really bad for like halos and rings

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around bright objects but that's only really how it looks on camera to my eye

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and to taran's eye and to most other people it's kind of difficult to notice in the

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HDR proofing mode honestly i can see it being a problem in

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like pin light types of situations that being said the amount of bloom is

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very low objectively there are some problems with

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the pro display xdr first and foremost is uniformity while it's reasonable most

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of the time brightness does taper off pretty noticeably around the edges

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giving it kind of an artificial vignette effect that's especially visible with

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solid colors more disappointingly on a 25 gray tone

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the panel displays a worrying amount of texture on what should just be a solid

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color and that's without the fancy glare reduction coating we opted to leave that

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off so large vertical bars mean that in spite of the panel's deep blacks it'll

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definitely be a little bit more difficult for artists and colorists to do their jobs on darker images

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interestingly this test also shows a pretty big variation in viewing angle on

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these gray tones in spite of apple's claims of super wide viewing angle

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i mean with that said this 25 gray is a

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worst case scenario for the display and most of the time these things aren't

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noticeable but it is there

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thankfully as brightness drops all of these effects become less visible and

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the built-in reference modes all dim the screen accordingly anyway and they do a

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lot more from what we can tell the reference modes do a damn fine job of

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maintaining color accuracy it's worth mentioning that getting accurate results

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out of this thing with a colorimeter or a spectrophotometer is a bit of a chore

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right now but from what we've been able to glean with the tools we have it's

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safe to say that it's as accurate as they say it is with delta ease reliably

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below one in the reference modes now you do lose access to brightness controls

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while running in these modes and the pro display xdr's standard modes are

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definitely going to be better for content consumption even if they

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sacrifice some balls to the wall's accuracy but guys when you flip this

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thing into i'm creating now ladies and gentlemen look at me i'm an artist

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mode you can expect an accurate pro level

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experience so the pro display xtr seems like it lives up to its promises

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and i mean when the competition's price tag has five digits a four digit one

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like this looks pretty darn good but

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apple also isn't alone here trying to disrupt that industry ASUS's pro art

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pa-32ucx costs a thousand dollars less and not only comes with a stand to make

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that 1200 to 2 000 less but it has adobe

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RGB support instead of apple's p3d50 for print work and it has double the number

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of local dimming zones thanks to its mini led backlight it's only really

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missing the pro display xdr's impressive peak brightness and 6k resolution

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so let us know in the comments below if you want us to get ASUS to send one of those over so we can compare this

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against the pc world's pro display xdr

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for today all that's left to say though is

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it's a flawed gem but the flaws are pretty minor and it's

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definitely still a gem so good job apple this product makes

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professional grade HDR mastering more accessible to small and mid-sized

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studios everywhere and that's a great thing well

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