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Everything is controlled by software, specifically macOS Catalina 10.15.2.
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What you will not find on the outside of the Pro Display XDR are any buttons at all. This isn’t a huge surprise - pushing that many pixels isn’t easy - but don’t expect to use this thing with a laptop and have things stay cool. After about 45 minutes, the laptop got pretty warm, and the fans had spun up.
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We mostly used the display with our Mac Pro, but we also plugged it into our 16-inch MacBook Pro review unit a few times.
Speaking of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, it got very hot while running the Pro Display XDR.
In any case, I told The Verge’s resident USB soothsayer, Chaim Gartenberg, that the USB-C ports on the back of the Pro Display XDR only run at USB 2 speeds on most computers, and he looked me dead in the eye and said, “This is my nightmare.” So USB-C is going just great. I don’t think that’s a problem $999 monitor stands should have. It’s not floppy or anything, but you will find things out of level quite often just by adjusting the display. That said, I still wouldn’t get the stand, if only because we found it impossible to keep level: the stand can rotate the display to portrait, and there’s a little too much play in the hinge. (The VESA mounting adapter for those setups will cost you an extra $199, however.)
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It makes sense that the $999 Pro Display XDR stand isn’t bundled with the display: professional studio setups often have mounting arms in them, and if you don’t need the stand, you don’t have to buy it. The Mac Pro does not offer video cards that support DSC, in case you’re wondering. The other three USB-C connectors operate at different speeds, depending on your computer: most supported Macs can only run them at USB 2 speeds, but the 16-inch MacBook Pro can run them at the USB 3 speeds because its video card supports a new standard called Display Stream Compression that leaves enough bandwidth on the Thunderbolt bus for faster USB connections. (Or perhaps not, given that USB-C is generally confusing.) One of the USB-C connectors, marked by a lightning bolt icon, is a Thunderbolt 3 port, which is how you plug the display into your Mac. There are four USB-C connections on the back, but they are far more confusing than you’d expect. It’s fair to say no other display has ever looked like this from the rear. What’s there is Apple’s striking new pattern of cooling vents across the back, which looks like overlapping alien heads or the fever dreams of a depressed honeybee that just wants to draw for a living.
The outside of the Pro Display XDR is notable both for what’s there and especially for what’s not there. Even at $6,000 total, that’s substantially less than $43,000, a number Apple certainly wants you to think about to put the price in perspective.Īnd I think maybe everyone would have been better off if Apple had never mentioned that $43,000 Sony at all.īuy for $4,999.00 from Apple Buy for $4,999.99 from Best Buy
The Pro Display XDR costs $4,999, with a $999 optional stand.
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These are all very impressive specs - so impressive that Apple confidently says the Pro Display XDR is the “world’s best pro display.” It’s also so impressive that the company spent a lot of time at the launch event comparing it to a $43,000 Sony reference OLED that is usually used for high-end color grading work in film and TV production.
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It supports true 10-bit color and the full DCI-P3 color gamut, and Apple says that it can hit a million-to-one contrast ratio using certain industry-standard test patterns. The Pro Display XDR is a 32-inch 6K LCD that can hit 1,600 nits of peak brightness, with 1,000 nits of sustained brightness from a full-array local dimming backlight composed of 576 special blue LEDs. (Here’s our Mac Pro review and our 16-inch MacBook Pro review, if you’re interested.) Apple tried to point customers looking for an external display at an LG 5K monitor for a while, but it was fairly buggy, leading the company to promise pro customers a high-end display of its own when it also promised to reboot the Mac Pro in 2017.Īnd now it’s here: the Pro Display XDR, part of Apple’s aggressive retrenchment in the professional market with the new Mac Pro and the 16-inch MacBook Pro. It’s been a long time since Apple made a standalone display the Apple Thunderbolt Display was discontinued in 2016.
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