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  • Apple Studio Display

    I received my Studio Display (Standard stand, standard glass) late Friday evening. Spent a good part of the weekend setting it all up, configuring all the required reference modes I would need.

    The best part: It worked with my Hackintosh with a litte bit of tinkering. And everything works.

    Initial Thoughts

    A13

    The A13 makes absolutely no sense. It handles the camera (which, as you may have already read, is terrible at the moment), handles the spatial audio bit (which is a hit-or-miss especially playing audio through Apple Music) and not much else. Its mere pressence complicates internal wiring so the extent of the display being a Smart Display. It cannot take AirPlay input on its own, or process HDMI signals (it doesn’t even any other input sources), or have anything to do with managing the USB ports on the back panel (that I know of).

    Image Quality

    šŸ¤ÆšŸ”„šŸ’Æ

    Yup, those 3 emojis pretty much sum up my feelings. Combined with the capability to configure various reference modes, it’s the display you should get if you need 5K and everything else this display comes with.

    Did I mention it also works with Windows? And games look incredible on it. I’m most probably spending the upcoming weekend playing Forza.


    The Stand

    The default stand configuration actually is perfect for my personal setup. It’s at the same height (or probably 2cm taller) compared to my previous setup.

    The Bezels

    Why are they so big? Why, Apple! Why!?

    The Build

    The Studio Display is built to last! Or atleast it feels like that. But I’m still going to get AppleCare for it given Apple’s recent track record with hardware and random stuff breaking with OS updates. Considering this monitor ships with an A13 chip, and there has already been an incident (now resolved) of people unable to update the firmware on it, I’m skeptical.

    4.5/5 ā­ļø

    → 9:08 AM, Apr 18
  • A few weeks of using the MacBook Pro 14ā€ regularly and now I’m left wanting for an always-online Mac mini powered by the same chip so I can run Xcode builds for archiving onto it, perhaps even video transcoding for final deliveries.Ā 

    → 11:22 AM, Dec 23
  • One week’s worth of thermal data from using the MacBook Pro 14”. Not bad at all.

    I’m looking forward to testing this again in the Indian summer šŸ˜„

    Screenshot 2021 12 17 at 7 16 18 PM

    → 7:21 PM, Dec 17
  • The MacBook Pro 14ā€ continues to impress me.Ā 

    I now wonder if my wait of 7 weeks was worth the 32GB upgrade. I have not even reached the 16GB threshold after running Sketch, FCP X and Xcode workloads on it (separately).Ā 

    Perhaps once I start a Resolve project in it for colour grading work, I might see it using more RAM.Ā 

    → 11:34 AM, Dec 14
  • First impressions of the MacBook Pro: that display is something else.

    The first image of an HDR clip pinned to 1000 nits (HLG limitation). The rest of the UI is at the brightness set by me (3 stops below 50%).

    I exposed the shot in the camera app such that the brightest spot in the shot does not clip at the highlights. 🤯 7D3EB58F-99CE-457E-8C3D-A110EF5F849E.jpg 50483250-B79E-4D2C-BA86-E0313EA5AF89.jpg

    → 10:49 PM, Dec 11
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