this is the apple studio display also known as the lg ultrafine 5k expensive
edition it's basically the same specs it's the
same resolution it's got slightly brighter max brightness i think it's got
the same io i think it's basically an lg ultrafine 5k but with a twist not only
does it have apple's wonderful industrial design but it also has what
is it an a13 bionic in it it's apple silicon in the display
why would you need that well it's well basically it's a giant ipad
apparently it even runs iOS like iOS 15.4
which is ridiculous you got to like activate that savior with it
you can do that anyway with a standard microphone it doesn't matter you don't
have to use an a13 bionic in your
display in order to activate siri anyway let's
get into it in this case this box design is amazing
so what you do is you just grab these give them a little push
yeah it's like this for the pro display xdr as well so it gets everything out of
your way and you can just grab it okay so let's see what else is in here this is
probably the power cable uh no that is the Thunderbolt cable which
can supply power i think it can do up to 95 watts and we got
the apple stuff we got studio display pamphlets
uh nice black apple logos uh where's the power
it's not in the box oh
so they managed to put it
it's actually a nice cable uh does it come out
oh is it hard what please don't
don't tell me it's hardwired please tell me that i'm just like running into
resistance from this being tight over it i don't remember now what the back
looked like in fact i don't remember if they showed the full back
uh oh oh that's in there that's not
removable that's that's not removable
not at all this thing is attached oh yeah
last time i saw power permanently attached to a monitor
it was a tube
even then some of them had detachable cables so if your cat or your dog or
your vacuum cleaner chews up this cable
you are s-o-l now i know why they put it there they
didn't have any choice buy the applecare let's let's forget
about this for now and move on to the rest of the i o such
as it is we've got a single Thunderbolt input that's it and then you get three
usb type cs i think these are each 10 gigabits per second if i'm not mistaken
so apple clearly doesn't want you to daisy chain these displays in order to
get multiple of these you need to take up each one of your ports and you have to
plug them in individually each time like what
why is it Thunderbolt 3 oh i can think of why because they put the a13 bionic
in there and the a13 bionic doesn't have the bandwidth for it for a 1600 product
you would expect it to be as seamless as possible especially for something that
apple like keeps talking about oh well look at how simple it is you just plug
everything into your monitor and
wait it's built in oh yeah if you think about how the the back plug on an imac
looks i thought for sure oh that's just
a similar sort of plug with the crazy magnetic connection you would think so
because this is like more expensive than the base my mac
this is obviously not the nano texture glass
oh that is a very nice peel though it feels real nice the nana texture glass
compared to this would be i'm not going to say extremely matte but it would be
very much less reflective like i'm pretty sure if i turned it this way you
just straight up see the camera this is not removable either just in
case you were wondering this is the the tilt stand there is
nothing else to it it just does this so in the factory you need to have either
the vasa mount if you have an ARM that you want to put this on or
this or the height and tilt that's 400
the pro display xdr stand at least had the courtesy of having a quick detach
mechanism that was really nice this has nothing it's literally just the
stand this is unacceptable
i don't think it will be however in order for us to find out i'm gonna
have to turn it on and before i do that i'm going to talk to you about our sponsor devolution thanks to devolutions
for sponsoring this video it pros disagree on a bunch of things like kirk
vs picard or dc versus marvel and how
can we forget Windows versus mac am i right
there is one thing that millions of it pros around the world agree on they
trust devolution's server to manage all of their privileged accounts and remote
desktop manager to centralize all their remote connections and credentials on a
single platform which is securely shared between users and across the entire team
with devolutions you don't have to choose between productivity and security
you can have both learn more and launch a free trial at devolutions.net or at
the link below does it do a display
on thing does it do anything does it show anything does it oh it does it's
booting iOS how interesting oh there's fingerprints all over it already the
most expensive microfiber cloth well it works pretty well i guess let's start
off with the easiest to i guess start off with the ipad plug
that in there it is charging
i don't know what's happening oh now my touches just went through that
was fun let's try that again
oh hey there we go that was weird oh that's interesting so you get
separate controls for the brightness of the external display and the ipad but
the brightness of the external display doesn't adjust uh
okay so yeah the general brightness in normal viewing conditions is more or
less the same and the color accuracy looks pretty decent compared to the um
the ipad itself as well sharpness seems okay even though this is a different
kind of signal uh like it's just actually getting scaled oh right it's
got those super amazing speakers let's crab rave it
and wait where's my volume control oh that is oh okay this looks very much
like two brightness controls is it not that's what i thought that was
it's the speakers
it's a bit harsh on the top end the base is pretty good as you might expect from
the speaker arrangement that's similar to the imac 24 inch but man that top end
was really rough like it was actually a little bit
fuzzy
it's more balanced it sounds better at the top end
like it's it's way tighter uh the bass obviously isn't as strong
uh or quite as nuanced but bass isn't everything i want
to find something good about this display aside from the fact that it's like
similar in terms of brightness and color accuracy to the ipad at least in
standard content let's find some HDR content uh you know it actually doesn't
look terrible the blacks are actually really good for an lcd
like this is a mini led array that is
far superior and it's similar in terms of
black performance well i guess it's a little bit worse on the studio display
actually the HDR tone mapping does look really good though even though it's not
actually an HDR display now it's time for the
mac experience i expect will be a little better i mean obviously this is what
it's kind of designed for the ipad won't even output the right resolution so i
can adjust the brightness here it also has automatic brightness adjustment i
can adjust the color presets yeah the HDR tone mapping
looks real good though and the color vibrancy is really good is it 1600 good
um you can get similar performance or better
out of monitors from other companies what apple is
really doing here that is different it does the webcam and microphone and
everything on the display so let's try that all right so now we
are recording from the studio display
the webcam light has lit up looks pretty good like i'm
in pretty good focus here and you can see everything in the background as well
and if we look closer yeah there's a little bit of noise in the image
but like that's that background detail is
well a it's in shadow and b it's very much in the background
this is the webcam that's built into the macbook pro oh yeah there's less noise
in the background okay now there may be less detail in the background too i
don't know i haven't compared these side by side other than just kind of looking
at them while we're doing this recording
i want to see if this actually has similar video and audio quality with the
Intel mac wow is quicktime just like not loading or something uh i can't tell if
that's better or worse it might be the same so it might actually be getting the
same processing as the m1 mac was getting as well
tell me what you feel about the uh power cord
are you serious right now i am on a two-week streak of having no hot takes
on the WAN Show and i'm afraid that it is about to end because i am angry yeah
okay got him
every person that walks by hey hey tell me how you feel about this connection to
the monitor back there in the power cable wait what
you can't unplug it
is the processor cool yeah like there's so much stuff you could do with a
processor built into the display you could like do ai upscaling for lower resolution
content you could denoise uh internet streams because you're
talking directly to the operating system they have a channel of communication
there's no airplay there's no apple tv there's there's nothing it's supposedly
running iOS 15.4 in there and i don't understand how they dropped the
ball this badly i wanted i went into this thing being like oh yeah well it's
basically this other monitor but it's got these other cool features
but holy crap did this disappoint me are you ready for the weekend i i think i'm
ready for the weekend too if you're ready for the weekend make sure you get subscribed to ShortCircuit because we
release videos like this all the time and you're not quite as angry as this
but videos like this all the time