Apple Studio Display
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Mine's still on it's way, as I opted for the VESA mount option without realising it would mean a 2 week delay with a nice new Studio Max sitting in the corner.
Not expecting it to look much different in use to my 2014 27" 5K iMac to be honest, but that's only getting replaced because it's getting a bit creaky on heavierPowerpointPhotoshop/InDesign/Quark workloads.
Was simply expecting to replace it with a new 27"+ iMac with M1 Max processor, but that didn't appear, so this is the next best option. I also considered getting a different monitor completely to use for both work and gaming and was considering paying £3300 for the LG 32EP950-B 32" 4k OLED monitor, even though it is only a 60Hz too.
Perfect solution would have been for the Studio Display to have been OLED of some sort, but if LGs price is over £3k for a 4k panel, I really don't want to think what Apple's price would have been for a 5k model with iPad internals.
Not expecting it to look much different in use to my 2014 27" 5K iMac to be honest, but that's only getting replaced because it's getting a bit creaky on heavier
Was simply expecting to replace it with a new 27"+ iMac with M1 Max processor, but that didn't appear, so this is the next best option. I also considered getting a different monitor completely to use for both work and gaming and was considering paying £3300 for the LG 32EP950-B 32" 4k OLED monitor, even though it is only a 60Hz too.
Perfect solution would have been for the Studio Display to have been OLED of some sort, but if LGs price is over £3k for a 4k panel, I really don't want to think what Apple's price would have been for a 5k model with iPad internals.
Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 24th March 09:26
F31Simon said:
Slightly off-topic, but how do you find the Mac Studio?
Only used it for an hour or so to ensure it wasn't DOA and to set it all up, as I'm waiting for my monitor. The small 1440p screen I used to set it up obviously didn't affect it's performance, but it looked terrible on that screen.In the limited playing I did with Photoshop and InDesign on 2GB files, it was very snappy. Hadn't noticed how 'slow' the Finder had become on my old machine as it was such a gradual slow-down at each OS upgrade.
Just got to decide whether I really need a new Thunderbolt 4 RAID (and maybe increase it to 6-bays), or just use the 4-bay TB2 one I currently have with an adapter.
I ran a few quick tests in Geekbench and Cinebench, which showed the single-core perf was about 2x, and multi-core about 4x that of my 4.0ghz i7.
This shows the CPU performance compared to my late 2014 iMac and modern gaming PC...
This shows the graphics performance comparison - which despite Apple's claims does not come anywhere near a 250-300w RTX3070 or 3080Ti in OpenCL:
Edited by mmm-five on Thursday 24th March 09:44
Congrats on the purchases! 
( I have the Lg 5K Ultrafine - and it is an amazing monitor. ( inbuilt web cam less impressive ) - but I have the green eyed monster over the Apple monitor.
Q/Is there a simple way to determine what Mac apps are multicore?
My little M1 Macbook Air can hold it's own on single core with every M1 variant out there now including the Ultra.
But I can't determine what apps job pulic would use that utilise Multicore - that would mean when it's time to change....... which machine do I go for.
Any advice welcome
( I have the Lg 5K Ultrafine - and it is an amazing monitor. ( inbuilt web cam less impressive ) - but I have the green eyed monster over the Apple monitor.
Q/Is there a simple way to determine what Mac apps are multicore?
My little M1 Macbook Air can hold it's own on single core with every M1 variant out there now including the Ultra.
But I can't determine what apps job pulic would use that utilise Multicore - that would mean when it's time to change....... which machine do I go for.
Any advice welcome
Can't speak for the Apple specifically but would only buy it with Apple care and hope for the best.
The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
theboss said:
Can't speak for the Apple specifically but would only buy it with Apple care and hope for the best.
The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
Dell will refund you if you have a fourth warranty repair request. The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
shopper150 said:
theboss said:
Can't speak for the Apple specifically but would only buy it with Apple care and hope for the best.
The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
Dell will refund you if you have a fourth warranty repair request. The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
Anyway my point was just to be wary of expensive monitors because they are black boxes from a support point of view, nothing is user-serviceable and if they go pop they get scrapped.
theboss said:
I've given up trying to get anywhere tbh. Support just throw me round in circles. Warranty has now lapsed but I raised a support request beforehand which was unacknowledged. Will be the last product I buy from them unfortunately and I write that from a top spec Precision rig with umpteen poweredge servers in various places.
I know it’s frustrating, but knowing how to deal with tech support robots and pushing for the outcome you need is part of being a tech user. I personally find Dell better than Apple because they have policies which they do adhere to, but you need to push hard.Was it purchased through their business division or home?
How far out of warranty are you?
lastexile69 said:
It still wouldn't surprise me if at some point a new generation 27 or 30" iMac appears.
Personally I don’t see it happening for another ‘generation’ of hardware. It’s more profitable for them to sell displays and computers separately.Edited by shopper150 on Thursday 24th March 20:31
theboss said:
Can't speak for the Apple specifically but would only buy it with Apple care and hope for the best.
The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
I've never bothered with Applecare, and the last time I had issue with any of my Apple products that required a repair was my octo-core 2008 MacPro which needed a new CPU about 2 weeks after I'd bought it (and is still being used by my brother-in-law with the Cinema Display until he gets my 2014 iMac). I started using them in 1989.The LG at £3-odd-k with 2 years warranty, a risky purchase.
I say this as somebody who is taking an exquisite Dell UP3218K - the third warranty placement in as many years which has given up - and throwing it in the tip. 2 years use for £3.5k and then endless amounts of dicking about getting swapouts which subsequently failed. Dell support don't want to know.
If you're a creativity professional needing the colour accuracy drop your £3-4k on an Eizo with 5 year warranty and chances are it will still be going strong in 10 years time.
(iPhone, iPad, MacMini, iMac, Mac Pro, Apple Cinema Display, Quadra, Centris, Mac IIvx, Mac IIcx, MacSE)
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