Apple went out of the way to engineer the power cord to not be user removable and also engineered a special tool to remove it.

I'm surprised they didn't offer a 'Studio stand' with cutouts allowing you to place the Mac Studio on the base of the stand and thread all the cables through it... for $399 extra dollars

I think Apple fixed all of what they consider mistakes from the last display. Removable cable, removable stand, vesa mounting, any user repairability or customizability that might have snuck through

As a professional photographer & filmmaker considering this product for my production team, this definitely helped me make the decision to NOT move forward on picking this "studio" monitor up yet. You made great points on the features that you'd expect in 2022 for the price range....and Apple has delivered an underwhelming product on this one. If you have a bunch of cash to burn, this might be a fun purchase. Otherwise, you can move the needle for you and your business a lot more by investing the same money towards something else.

Apple marketing logic: "We don't send chargers with the iPhones anymore, because of environmental reasons." "If your power cable breaks, you have to send in the whole thing!" (I would even consider myself a fan boy. But some stuff they do makes me puke. It's just greedy.)

The nonremovable power cable is absolutely absurd. They actually went out of their way, and spent R&D money, to design a new, worse cable when they already had multiple options for something good.

You got my thumb’s up on the last sentence. 😂 Great review.

Thank you UKposts algorithm for sending me Marques. Your reviews seem to be truly unbiased, sharing the good and bad in a very clear, concise way that I really enjoy. Well done sir!

I love how he's avoiding "It's not a good deal" so hard and I was almost angry that he's so diplomatic, just to end the video with "No, it's not a good deal.". :D

The fact that the M1 iMac 24in with a 4.5k display exist for $1,300, which is a full computer makes this a terrible deal. I was at an apple store and my sister said "So this display is more than that computer? That makes no sense".

I like mine. I agree about the power cord - don't know why they couldn't have used the same design they did with the new iMacs - with a magnetic closure. But it works great with my Mac Mini, I like the additional USB-C ports and it's worked out great for me.

Great presentation and I agree with the fails on no mini-led, no ProMotion, power cord not removable, stand not upgradable, poor quality web cam, and no Face ID given it has a A13 chip even if it was used for 2FA. I also think they missed an opportunity to have multiple monitors work in tandem with audio and possibly even the web cam. This is the company that comes up with great useful features, although neglects a lot of them, and this crazy expensive monitor really only has some trivial additions. It's like the team that designed the Studio Display was designing the old MBP which took away man things Pros, and frankly even general users, wanted while not long ago a different team created the new MBP with things Pros do want and the Studio Display team ignored it all. This display is the victim of the same thing that gave us the Touch Bar. i.e. Apple ignored it, then had to come up with something to say they weren't ignoring the Mac, look the new MBP, it's all the things that no one asked for or wanted in a MBP. Yes I'm aware that had some exaggeration. However, I equate these things to the one button mouse desuional logic which is like a virus Apple can't cure, it always pops up somewhere. Frankly $400 for a single not uncommon function is where Apple shows itself as a greedy corporation like that $19 display cleaning cloth or the $1000 stand. Yes people pay for elegant designs, but there is a point when you're just milking customers because you can. If the stand had more of the functionality of RA-HS3111, which lets you control the position of a monitor in 3 dimensions independently, but they gave it Apple style and the one thing missing, fine tune height adjustment, I'd be OK with $400 - $550. There is actually another thing missing from the RA-HS3111, a quick release at the VESA connection to the monitor, but I've given up on Apple making monitors or AIOs with removal stands. Thanks for the sanity MKBHD!

Unremovable cable is ridiculous, it's almost like apple wants right to repair regulation to come into law. It truly serves no purpose

It seems like Apple is testing what people are willing to pay for at this point… the fact that it costs nearly the same as an iMac 5k did is laughable.

thanks for such a honest review! I keep my late 2013 imac for now..great colors and experience even if its not even a retina....(but costs only 10%)

Love your commentaries. Thank you

I love the brutal honesty in this one! 👊🏻 Without ProMotion and mini LED, it’s a hard pass. And that’s a shame, because the monitor itself is beautifully designed. It’s a very “Apple” product, I suppose.

The old 27" iMac retailed for $1799 and had the same identical panel (just a 500 nits instead of 600) as the Studio display which costs $1599. For an extra $200 you got an entire computer plus keyboard and mouse. The price of the Studio display is ridiculous, shouldn't be more than $1000.

WOW. I am a fool for thinking that the adjustable factor came with the display..only for you to say its a $400 upgrade fee associated to have it do that..I'm floored lol. I highkey was thinking of getting this to add to my apple eco-system lol, but after watching this, I am definitely going to be thinking this over for a while. THANK YOU for your honest review!

Thanks for this video! You did a great job dumbing it down and keeping it engaging! Are there other monitors with similar specs that have built-in speakers? I have a weird desk setup and the thought of adding more cable clutter to it with speakers is enough to make me go with the studio display.

that ending was actually hilarious when he looks us straight in the eye and says "yea.....its not a good deal" LOL I cannot believe people actually call him an Apple fanboy. He is objective. He doesn't tell you to buy it, he just tells his experience. Love it

LTT summarized the Apple Studio Display pretty nicely - "an LG Ultra Fine 5k Display Expensive Edition". 😆

Great review as usual, Marques. This has been as always helpful. Still sticking with iMac for now.

I have one of these, mainly because apple colour on the screen is really accurate if you work in print like I do. I wish they would have given us just 2 more inches though, it does feel smaller compared to my old iMac 27 because that was taller. Great review, thanks

Great breakdown of why it’s not for you and why it might be for some people. It really makes me want to skip them though for my setup

Missed opportunity: Apple could have priced this at $2500 and sold the exact same number of units. Anyone crazy enough to spend $1600 would be crazy enough to spend $2500.

Thank you for this Video @MKBHD because I was on the fence and didn't know which way to go!!!

After 1 year of owning two of these displays, I have to say they are the best displays I ever owned. In our office I am the only one with this display, others all have an HP panorama display that‘s about as expensive. Funny thing: Whenever I‘m in my HomeOffice my colleagues use my Apple display instead of their larger HP. I don’t know wether it’s because of the higher resolution (despite being smaller) or the better colors or the uniform lighting without light speckles or the joy of using a display that doesn’t wiggle whenever you touch the table. A solid aluminum display with an excellent screen seems to be worth something.

😂😂 Best ending ever.

Waiting for apple to make speakers with a non removable lightning cable and you will have to buy lightning to 3.5 mm jack or XLRs for additional 200 dollars.

Love your channel bro! Do you happen to have recommendations for color accurate monitors ?

I have been passively watching your content for years and something about your delivery in this video finally prompted me to subscribe. Thanks.

This video perfectly shows my main BIG problem with this monitor (and some other decisions apple made in the last years). Everything that stands out as particularly "great/good" are things that don't actually matter for the monitor as a monitor. Build quality, feel, a build in UI with a good chip, good speakers... all nice, but everything that matters for the actual product as a MONITOR is just not good enough for the price (and the add-on prices) Apple is asking for. Yes it feels good, but i almost never touch my monitor, yes it sounds good, but for a desktop i always use external speakers or headphones, yes it's well made (except the cable), but i never had a monitor breaking because it's plastic... what i actually want in a high standard productivity monitor is amazing peak brightness, a higher refresh rate for more pleasant reading and scrolling (let's be honest, gaming is not what apple is focussing on), an amazing panel with accurate colors and close to the best blacks and maybe some comfort features like tilt, swivel, height adjust and rotation if you don't put it on an arm... and none of that is what this monitor stands out for. It honestly feels like Apple spend tons of time and money to develope a shiny new product with lots of features, but failed to develope the core feature set to a point that actually feels well done. It's like a bog standard monitor with with some Apple-Glitter slapped on it.

Fun fact: the Studio Display can detect which orientation it’s in and switch the content to portrait automatically, but neither of the stands let you rotate it

Amazing review. Literally I don't need to do any more research now. I won't get it for now because I need the money to pack all the juice I can into the mac studio. Funny how the Dell alternative you listed only cost around 100 bucks more than the stand upgrade for the studio monitor. So that killed it for me. I'm a big fan of the apple design functionality and I couldn't have put it better my self when your describing apples combination of unique features on products. But for this piece of kit that price is too high right now to pay for lovely apple niceness with the design functionality and also the power cable is absurd but ultimately I could get over that.

Cool video Marques! Would love to hear you more on resolution scaling

On the verge of QD-OLED and considering the utterly insane stand vs VESA mount stuff Apple does, this monitor is just an absolute joke. I feel like you should have been much more angry about the attached power cable too. It's just completely unacceptable.

If you take into account the $400 stand option for height and tilt adjust, you find yourself comparing a $1999 monitor with a $1299 and $589 option.

Great review. Love your style and the points you make. You opened my eyes!

Your videos are a pleasure to watch, thank you.

I was really impressed with this monitor but I can't get past how much of a horrible deal this is now.

It's a monitor for Apple fans. If you open your options to non-Apple displays, there are so many capable options to choose from. Non-removable cable is not a thumbs down, it's silly.

Bro your reviews are always spot on! you special with this.

So if this is not a good deal which monitor is best for the studio?

$399 for a stand? Wow! Looks like a GREAT deal😂

I can’t agree more. You can get an iMac 24” with the same display technology with less money. *AND ITS A WHOLE COMPUTER WITH PROCESSOR KEYBOARD MOUSE AND STUFF*

I decided to go for the EIZO CS2740. For me the colours (100%-ish adobe rgb) and especially the bit depth (true 10) is most important.

This is one of the best reviews I have seen on anything. Excellent example of being actually non biased and open to being honest about the product. Very helpful in making sure people don't make the ridiculous decision to buy something that is way way way below the standard. I have been a Mac fan for the last 13 years now and most of what I have experienced with Apple has been stellar. There are the obvious things to hate about the company Apple which I hate just as much as anyone. For the most part, when the products are weighed in the balances the upside outbalances the down side. In regards to this monitor, the downsides totally outbalance any upside hands down!! I had already placed the order for the Apple Studio Display to pick up the next day in Toronto on April 16 when I was browsing around and kept running into other review comparisons that showed clearly to avoid this piece of garbage. I simply cancelled the Apply order. After buying a Samsung on the 16th that I found barely used on Kijiji, spending a lot less money and getting a 5X bang for the buck over the Apple, I then also saw this review today. This one completely seals the deal 100% about NOT buying the Apple Studio Display and I hope that anyone who has purchased one of these returns it asap. Marques is one of the best out there period and I only just heard of him this morning. I just subscribed today and wish I would have seen his youtube well before this. Thank-you!

Amazing what Apple can get away with sometimes. They make some great products, but some others represent a clear abuse of brand loyalty lol.

This guy gets invited to apple events, gets exclusive interviews with people from apple and still has what it takes to give out genuine impressions about products like these!!! That is why he is my number 1 source for all tech related things!!

Can you recommend a great 4K monitor to go with the Mac Studio I just ordered? I’d like 32” or larger. Just had an IMac for so long that I’m not even sure what to look for. I’m a photographer/videographer.

I have this monitor for a few months now and it’s been great so far. Amazing colors, the brightness is really strong, good sound from the speakers. I do graphic design and it’s a very powerful tool.

For this to be a good deal, I think it'd need to be 120 Hz (or higher), have height adjustment in the base model, a better camera (not necessarily an excellent one, but something better than that), and of course a removable power cord. Considering Apple's done all of this before I don't think that's a huge ask, it just needs to be put in one device

The fact that Apple wants 400$ for a standard "upgrade" feature that even my old 100$ monitor had is astounding. This company is just giving every consumer the middle finger. Holy crap.

Really good review!

Great review. You are a star!! Hard working man and so honest. I just love this guy

As someone who owned an Apple Thunderbolt Display with an unremovable cable, it gives anxiety to know such an expensive display also has one. The cable on mine deteriorated over time for no reason to a point where the display would constantly lose signal. Had to throw it away since it was out of warranty and the amount Apple was asking to fix it could be used to buy a non-Apple display brand new.

For me, the 400$ stand convinced me to buy another monitor. Such a basic feature that's actually mandatory if you don't wanna develop health problems, should be included in the base version. Buying another, I discovered other monitors look like shit on Apple unless you trick the computer to think it's an Apple display through software. Nice.

Happy to watch your video and keep myself away from a bad choice.. thx a lot and greetings from Germany!

Good review. It would great to see a comparison review with competitors.

Imagine paying $1600 for a monitor without High Refresh Rate or HDR.

The $1000 stand still ranks as one of the most “wtf” things apple has ever done. Unless the engineering on that thing rivals NASA’s tech, i don’t get it.

This is actually the only option if you want a glossy desktop monitor, which in itself is pretty mind blowing. Why aren’t other manufacturers filling this gap in the market?!!

It's worth noting that you can control screen brightness from your keyboard which is something most other non-mac monitors don't support. If you work in a bright environment during the day and then use the same screen at night it's nice to be able to tone down the display.

This has been my fundamental problem with Apple's design philosophy through the dark ages (butterfly keyboard era). They're intentionally choosing to under-design a product that _could_ be insanely competitive despite the fact that they'd still be able to line their pockets if they just made something better. Every power user is just going to be resentful of the limitations here despite them being the very demographic they're targeting. They finally made Macbook Pros a legitimately compelling product again, and this feels like a huge step backwards. How are they selling an _entire_ Macbook Pro with better screen tech for $2k and then turning around and selling this monitor for $1600? Their pricing/spec philosophy is conflicting with itself. Sure, it's a "nice" monitor overall, but the design decisions to get it here are clearly shady and minimally competitive. Ultimately, I hope this product fails so that Apple does better next time. $400 for a few inches of height adjustment? Get the absolute fuck outta here. Just _make a great monitor_ and charge the typical Apple price for it.

12:11 killed it!! ROFL that was hilarious!

I love how honest this guy is

I think that apple should make speakers too, but I think the intention of them is to include good speakers into their everyday devices like iPad, iPhone and so on, in order to not have to bring an extra speaker if you wanted to listen to high quality music.

I don't even want to talk about how sad it is that Apple is ripping customers off just for simple features like an adjustable stand. When you can get OLED monitors for less than half the base price, anyone would have to be mad to buy this.

The biggest thing for me was the 60hz refresh rate. For $1600 you can get a G9 which is 240hz and way bigger

Great video. It’s the build quality that makes it difficult for me to bother upgrading my display which is Apple’s LED Thunderbolt 27” display. That’s built the same way, all metal . . . built in speakers, camera, etc. Oh and I can remove the power cable. LOL

Oh, I was so close to buying one of these. I am so glad that you're review popped up in my feed between the power cord that crappy WebCam and honestly the price especially if you want to go for an adjustable up and stand I gotta start looking for something else if anybody has a suggestion, please let me know.

Even when critical I love how honest and objective you are, it’s not over the top, it is what it is, no fluff or fake clickbait. It’s so refreshing

The power cable doesn't come out the back... and the LG version has a removable power cable (standard IEC). I'd say the LG Ultra Fine is worth it for that alone.

Excellent video and that is SUPER WEIRD about the power cable being non-removable.

got me thinking today when i watched your mac mini review, you should do 'the best apple monitor alternatives' piece :)

8:13 lol, i see what you did there 😂😂

I thinkApple know the market position of this display is not meant to sell good , it is there to boost the sales of current iMac 🖥 and the next 27 iMac 🤣

that sigh of frustration at 3:25 made my day.

That basketball star comparison was hilarious! Great video

man, the QUALITY of this kind of videos, solid 11/10 for me. also, imagine paying almost 2 grand for 60Hz in 2022. hurts.

Imagine you have a iPad, iPhone and MacBook 120hz and than a studio display with 60hz….for that price

4:02 Marques, I love your videos and all, but why do you use Final Cut without the magnetic timeline? It’s FCP’s best feature and it sets it apart from Premiere. Why???!!!

Great review; thanks for the info and depth of assessment.

You almost had me on the first half with that closing argument about whether it is a good deal 😂 That’s how you end a review, honesty above all!

Honestly I loved this video, the only thing I find difficult to swallow is the lack of VESA mention. Getting a VESA at the store should be the default choice for anybody practical or even not experienced with IT. Monitor that charges money for a height adjustable mount in a world, where we fill landfills with Dell height-adjustable VESA stands.

I prefer to spend that bit extra for a decent monitor. I have the LG 5K which works great for me but I need another and was looking at this monitor. However, the non removable power cable is a deal breaker for me.

I always enjoy your reviews. Fantastic job.

$2K for 60HZ LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

For that extra $400, I can buy a extremely superior arm mount with more actuation action...this whole monitor, even from a monitor buying stand-point, IS AN AWFUL DEAL.

My interest in the studio display and apples studio computer was for photography, as I thought it would be colour calibrated the best . I’ve also wondered about how text looks, as we can only see the screen saver at our local Staples in my area

They used to make a speaker. It was like a boombox/iPad dock with auxiliary port that could run off of like 6 D batteries or be plugged in. I had it. It was loud enough, supper heavy; I liked it.

It never fails to amaze me how eloquent, informed, reflective and subtly hilarious your videos are man. You are without a doubt, the voice I look to hear on any new product. You managed to articulate a lot of my concerns while also acknowledging the very real desire to have one. Appreciate you so much MKB!

Just a disclaimer, the webcam that Marques was promoting, he's a shareholder in that company. But I agree, the built-in webcam quality isn't what I expect it to be. I'm not in the market for this type monitor anyway, I cant afford it. I can't afford the LG too. They're just not for me. The Dell, maybe.

Thank you. I was on the fence about buying a Mac Studio and watched several "middle of the road" reviews. This was wholly accurate, backed with receipts. Sorry Apple - I'll wait.

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Alright, so let me get this straight. Apple took an iMac 27", ripped out all the PC hardware, and sells that for roughly the same price. Yeah, this may be the only monitor for its very specific usecase, but lets not pretend your not getting screwed over here. This isn't a monitor that's worth $1600. Also, its kinda laughable to say that the UltraFine 5K is "5 years old" and then pretend like this display is a new thing when it is later - rightfully - pointed out that this is just the same display panel Apple has been using for years.

60hz LCD for that price is an absolute joke. Apple laughing all the way to the bank

This is the best review I have seen of this monitor and I agree with all points. Thanks a lot!

That last line & last second of the video was just so satisfying, lmao.