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this is the apple studio display also known as the lg ultrafine 5k expensive

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edition it's basically the same specs it's the

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same resolution it's got slightly brighter max brightness i think it's got

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the same io i think it's basically an lg ultrafine 5k but with a twist not only

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does it have apple's wonderful industrial design but it also has what

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is it an a13 bionic in it it's apple silicon in the display

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why would you need that well it's well basically it's a giant ipad

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apparently it even runs iOS like iOS 15.4

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which is ridiculous you got to like activate that savior with it

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you can do that anyway with a standard microphone it doesn't matter you don't

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have to use an a13 bionic in your

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display in order to activate siri anyway let's

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get into it in this case this box design is amazing

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so what you do is you just grab these give them a little push

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yeah it's like this for the pro display xdr as well so it gets everything out of

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your way and you can just grab it okay so let's see what else is in here this is

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probably the power cable uh no that is the Thunderbolt cable which

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can supply power i think it can do up to 95 watts and we got

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the apple stuff we got studio display pamphlets

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uh nice black apple logos uh where's the power

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it's not in the box oh

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so they managed to put it

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it's actually a nice cable uh does it come out

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oh is it hard what please don't

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don't tell me it's hardwired please tell me that i'm just like running into

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resistance from this being tight over it i don't remember now what the back

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looked like in fact i don't remember if they showed the full back

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uh oh oh that's in there that's not

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removable that's that's not removable

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not at all this thing is attached oh yeah

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last time i saw power permanently attached to a monitor

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it was a tube

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even then some of them had detachable cables so if your cat or your dog or

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your vacuum cleaner chews up this cable

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you are s-o-l now i know why they put it there they

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didn't have any choice buy the applecare let's let's forget

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about this for now and move on to the rest of the i o such

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as it is we've got a single Thunderbolt input that's it and then you get three

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usb type cs i think these are each 10 gigabits per second if i'm not mistaken

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so apple clearly doesn't want you to daisy chain these displays in order to

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get multiple of these you need to take up each one of your ports and you have to

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plug them in individually each time like what

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why is it Thunderbolt 3 oh i can think of why because they put the a13 bionic

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in there and the a13 bionic doesn't have the bandwidth for it for a 1600 product

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you would expect it to be as seamless as possible especially for something that

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apple like keeps talking about oh well look at how simple it is you just plug

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everything into your monitor and

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wait it's built in oh yeah if you think about how the the back plug on an imac

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looks i thought for sure oh that's just

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a similar sort of plug with the crazy magnetic connection you would think so

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because this is like more expensive than the base my mac

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this is obviously not the nano texture glass

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oh that is a very nice peel though it feels real nice the nana texture glass

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compared to this would be i'm not going to say extremely matte but it would be

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very much less reflective like i'm pretty sure if i turned it this way you

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just straight up see the camera this is not removable either just in

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case you were wondering this is the the tilt stand there is

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nothing else to it it just does this so in the factory you need to have either

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the vasa mount if you have an ARM that you want to put this on or

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this or the height and tilt that's 400

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the pro display xdr stand at least had the courtesy of having a quick detach

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mechanism that was really nice this has nothing it's literally just the

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stand this is unacceptable

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i don't think it will be however in order for us to find out i'm gonna

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on thing does it do anything does it show anything does it oh it does it's

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off with the easiest to i guess start off with the ipad plug

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that in there it is charging

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i don't know what's happening oh now my touches just went through that

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was fun let's try that again

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oh hey there we go that was weird oh that's interesting so you get

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separate controls for the brightness of the external display and the ipad but

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the brightness of the external display doesn't adjust uh

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okay so yeah the general brightness in normal viewing conditions is more or

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less the same and the color accuracy looks pretty decent compared to the um

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the ipad itself as well sharpness seems okay even though this is a different

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kind of signal uh like it's just actually getting scaled oh right it's

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got those super amazing speakers let's crab rave it

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and wait where's my volume control oh that is oh okay this looks very much

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like two brightness controls is it not that's what i thought that was

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it's the speakers

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it's a bit harsh on the top end the base is pretty good as you might expect from

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the speaker arrangement that's similar to the imac 24 inch but man that top end

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was really rough like it was actually a little bit

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fuzzy

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it's more balanced it sounds better at the top end

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like it's it's way tighter uh the bass obviously isn't as strong

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uh or quite as nuanced but bass isn't everything i want

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to find something good about this display aside from the fact that it's like

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similar in terms of brightness and color accuracy to the ipad at least in

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standard content let's find some HDR content uh you know it actually doesn't

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look terrible the blacks are actually really good for an lcd

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like this is a mini led array that is

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far superior and it's similar in terms of

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black performance well i guess it's a little bit worse on the studio display

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actually the HDR tone mapping does look really good though even though it's not

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actually an HDR display now it's time for the

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mac experience i expect will be a little better i mean obviously this is what

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it's kind of designed for the ipad won't even output the right resolution so i

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can adjust the brightness here it also has automatic brightness adjustment i

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can adjust the color presets yeah the HDR tone mapping

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looks real good though and the color vibrancy is really good is it 1600 good

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um you can get similar performance or better

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out of monitors from other companies what apple is

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really doing here that is different it does the webcam and microphone and

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everything on the display so let's try that all right so now we

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are recording from the studio display

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the webcam light has lit up looks pretty good like i'm

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in pretty good focus here and you can see everything in the background as well

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and if we look closer yeah there's a little bit of noise in the image

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but like that's that background detail is

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well a it's in shadow and b it's very much in the background

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this is the webcam that's built into the macbook pro oh yeah there's less noise

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in the background okay now there may be less detail in the background too i

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don't know i haven't compared these side by side other than just kind of looking

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at them while we're doing this recording

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i want to see if this actually has similar video and audio quality with the

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Intel mac wow is quicktime just like not loading or something uh i can't tell if

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that's better or worse it might be the same so it might actually be getting the

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same processing as the m1 mac was getting as well

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tell me what you feel about the uh power cord

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are you serious right now i am on a two-week streak of having no hot takes

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on the WAN Show and i'm afraid that it is about to end because i am angry yeah

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okay got him

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every person that walks by hey hey tell me how you feel about this connection to

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the monitor back there in the power cable wait what

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you can't unplug it

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is the processor cool yeah like there's so much stuff you could do with a

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processor built into the display you could like do ai upscaling for lower resolution

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content you could denoise uh internet streams because you're

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talking directly to the operating system they have a channel of communication

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there's no airplay there's no apple tv there's there's nothing it's supposedly

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running iOS 15.4 in there and i don't understand how they dropped the

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ball this badly i wanted i went into this thing being like oh yeah well it's

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basically this other monitor but it's got these other cool features

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but holy crap did this disappoint me are you ready for the weekend i i think i'm

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