Is The Studio Display Worth BUYING In 2024!?!?

[Music] you know as a content creator I buy a lot of stuff to help make my content better or just to streamline the creation process while we all know that it can turn into a bit of a rabbit hole of buying stuff you really don't need I do think that there's a good amount of stuff that is a good investment and can help bring your workflow to higher Heights the studio display is something I've always wanted because I thought it would help me do that but it is $1,599 starting which is insane there are cheaper alternatives that are almost as good as the studio display why not those should you even get the studio display how much money is worth spending on the studio display and will it make your art better let's talk about [Music] it so really quick if you don't know Apple released a display about 2 years ago 27 in 5K resolution it has speakers it has a face cam with Center Stage it's got all of the bells and whistles it's single cable plug-in Thunderbolt any device you want you're Off to the Races the display is really interesting for a couple reasons as well for one there really isn't anything like it on the market there are some similar displays but they all end up falling short in one way or another with one spec one feature here or there the second reason this display ends up being really interesting for better or worse is it is $15.99 it is really expensive and that's before you get an anti-glare texture or even a height adjustable stand and I never got one because of that price but recently I found a really good discount through Best Buy open box I'll tell you how much I paid for it in a little bit here but first I want to talk about why the display might be worth buying in general but first I want to tell you about the sponsor of today's video mag team is a company that focuses on making highquality cables that also are able to coil with magnets this keeps them out of the way and your desk space super clean I've been really enjoying the handful of them that they sent to me and I've been using this one a ton I'm able to use this cable to plug directly into my studio display and it also has a 20 GB transfer speed all that and it stays clean and out of the way these cables are fast and awesome and they stay out of the way really helps with cable management I highly recommend them thank you so much to mag team for sending them to me and if you guys want to check them out I have a couple of my favorites in the description if you end up buying one it helps out the channel a ton thank you so much let's get back to the video if you're like me or a lot of the creators I know and work with generally you'll find that the normal Workhorse machine that somebody's using is a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro this is great because it allows us to do our work anywhere we go anytime we need to and that's awesome but as much as we'd like to be on the go doing awesome things all the time we end up spending a lot of time at a desk at home or at our like dining room table on the laptop working away video editing doing whatever we do and if you've done any long-term working on a MacBook or a laptop in general you will know that eventually your neck pays for it and all you will want is a display that is at eye level so you can lift your head unfortunately getting a display for a Mac is more obnoxious than it should be Mac OS scales really weird which is why you'll always see apple displays having a little bit more resolution than normal it compensates for the scaling that happens on the OS level this means that getting random displays is generally weird and very uncomfortable it allow always feel a little bit off and eventually you just end up switching back to your laptop display which is generally the better display anyway this fact makes it really difficult to get a display for a Macbook because Apple really pushes the price up to allow you to purchase a larger display that is even comparable to their laptop displays so after a lot of waiting and questioning and looking around I finally splurged and got the Apple Studio display so now I've had it for about a month I've had a couple of my fellow creators use it and just to answer the initial question does this make your art better yes I fully believe that it does now I I do want to point out I did come from my laptop monitor but even if I had came from a LG ultra fine 5K I still think the answer to that question would be yes the screen real estate alone adds so much to my workflow it adds further creative options it allows me to have thicker edits and be able to see the scale of everything the color in the display is incredible it allows me to find more detail in images that I'm editing I I I could go on and on about how much this display has added to my day-to-day creative process and not only is the display beautiful to look at it's also cleaned up a lot of clutter off of my desk up until now on my desk plugged into my laptop I had had an audio interface in a USB hub plugged into my laptop powering speakers and all kinds of other accessories which frankly just sent wires all over my desk since getting the display the speakers have been incredible and they've replaced my old studio monitors which now I've sold and that alone has cleaned up a ton of space on my desk and a ton of wires the display also has a USB C Hub built right into it which is amazing and with the fact that there is fantastic speakers and a great webcam built directly into the display I have less per rules to plug in because I don't have my speakers I don't have my old webcam it's all built into the display and super minimal right now the only things I have consistently plugged in are my steam deck plus which I use for hotkeys for video editing and system control volume n and stuff and my ethernet adapter besides that it's just one Thunderbolt cable straight into my MacBook it varies person to person but I've personally found that a clean desk a simple more minimal desk does so much to assist in my creativity and my productivity and this monitor does an amazing job in that right the solid aluminum construction is amazing the monitor is incredibly minimal and it just cleans up my desk in a massive way and on top of all that it just looks really cool not many monitors look this good I will say there is one thing I wish this monitor really had actually there's technically two things I wish this monitor had one is 120 HZ all the MacBook Pros have promotion displays now even my iPad Pro has promotion display seems really weird that the big premium Apple display doesn't have promotion or 120 HZ Mac OS is already really smooth and I don't do any gaming on this display so I guess it doesn't really matter that much but it would just be kind of nice the big one though that I wish this monitor had was I I really really wish it had the same power adapter as has the current IMAX the studio display power adapter is just a big thick black cord plugs directly into the wall it's nothing special it doesn't unplug from the display itself which is kind of weird it's not a massive issue you can get it out if You Yank It really hard but you're not really supposed to the iMac power cable though it has a power cable that comes out of the computer and goes down to the ground and then it goes into a power brick which then plugs into the wall in this power brick though there is an ethernet port which means power and ethernet come into to the display SL computer through one cable which keeps the ethernet off the desk it would be incredibly nice to clear up a little bit more of the cables off the desk by having the ethernet plugged directly into the power adapter near the wall and it would also clear up one of the USBC ports on my USBC dock in the monitor because right now there is an Ethernet USBC anchor adapter plugged into the display so I get ethernet on my computer and I don't think that will ever change I understand the display was maybe too thin to put an ethernet port in I just would have loved if they' put it into the power adapter like they did with the iMac that way I had more USBC ports for other things right now though I'm doing a ton of work on this display and all I can say is it has been incredibly helpful my video editing has gotten way more complex since getting it because I have more space I can see more of the timeline at scale I can go through effects and do more my photo editing and Photoshop work has gotten way more detailed the attention to detail is wonderful especially when you have such a high resolution Monitor and you can scale in and get every little detail of shots that you've taken all in all the studio display is one of the best investments I think I've ever made in my personal work and my art it just dabbles and helps out in pretty much every aspect of what I do when it's related to computer work and what's awesome about this all just being a display with good speakers and camera and all that stuff is that I can upgrade computers down the line and I'll still get the same horsepower out of this display this display basically turns your laptop into an iMac and it delivers the entire iMac experience down to every little convenient detail if you've never worked on an iMac because they don't make iMac Pros anymore all you need to know is it's easy it's fast and it is beautiful now how much money is that experience worth for me it was $150 open box and I would honestly say that was a really good price for this monitor now I've got the base model but I've never really had an issue with the glare and yeah I'd like a height adjustable stand but honestly I'm just going to get a monitor stand and that will solve the problem for far cheaper than Apple is charging for this base model I cannot recommend it enough if you're getting it for sub $1,200 if you work non-stop computer work freelance dancing running a business whatever you do I cannot recommend getting a nice monitor more it honestly helps out a ton and it opens up a lot more creative mileage than you'd expect the Apple Studio display is going to sit on my desk for a very long time I can promise you it'll probably hang around until Apple announces the studio display 2 and then that display has been out for a couple years and dropped in price it's pretty awesome it's basically an iMac Pro and that's that's awesome if you enjoyed the video today please subscribe I recently started school so my video turnout is slowed way down but I'm working harder on content now to make sure that when it does come out it is something special really excited for my next video if you do want to hear more from me though I am pretty active on Twitter and all my socials are in the description I hope you all have a fantastic day and thank you so much for sitting down and spending some time watching my video have a good one

Channel: Andrew Taylor

Views: 4,071

Keywords: Boogidaball, Boogie, Apple, Macbook, Pro, Studio, M1, M2, M3, M4, Mac, Display, Tech

Id: EB_2IvCiap0

Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Wed May 01 2024