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Apple Studio Display Runs Full Version of iOS 15.4

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24 pointsBrajeshwar10 comments

I decided to buy one, it's on my desk now. I had a work-provided Lenovo 32'' 4k (t32-20p or something), but never liked it much. The Lenovo works well over USB, but image quality is much better on the apple.

Is it worth th money? Probably no, not really. However it has exactly the feature set I needed - I can get rid of a camera and my VC setup finally works well. External speakers + mic on camera always produced echo and people were complaining about how they couldn't understand what I'm saying.

So now, an overpriced monitor later, I think I have a setup I can live with for a long time. Th smaller monitor size does not bother me as much as I feared and leaves more space on my desk. I can free myself of headphones, which always annoyed me when wearing them for a long time. And I have a nice high resolution display, where text looks better then on any other monitor I ever had.

I wholeheartedly agree with your longevity sentiment. I have Apple Thunderbolt displays from 2014 I’m still using without any issue, even with M1 hardware (using an adapter). Looking forward to my studio display arriving!

This could easily be an iMac Lite, if Apple was amenable to it.

That seems excessive unless the monitor also has Wi-Fi and future updates allow for wireless streaming/docking. Let’s see what ifixit find!

They should have put tvOS instead. That way you could use the monitor as a TV without a Mac.

You still need network access which the ASD lacks.

In theory couldn't it tunnel ethernet over the TB4 cable?

if you're connecting the display to a machine, why not just use the machine's OS at that point?

You could plug the monitor to a router through a Thunderbolt or USC-C to Ethernet adapter. An A13 SOC just for image and audio processing feels overkill, and making the screen autonomous would have been a great way to justify it.

Although making a new user interface on top of iOS is a lot of work. Bare iOS SpringBoard on a $1.6k display won't cut it. tvOS would've been great if the monitor had wireless, but now you need to bump the price, and it feels like you're selling a very overpriced 27 inch smart TV. And I don't think the A13 can smoothly drive a 5k display.

You could run the iOS Apple TV app for that

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