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I think the Mac Studio replaced it, which makes sense- its target market is more likely to want to bring their own display
by brundolf 3y ago
I think the Mac Studio replaced it, which makes sense- its target market is more likely to want to bring their own display
- yreg 3y ago> its target market is more likely I dont know about this part. Whoever wanted to BYOD has been using MacBook Pros. Vast majority of 27" iMac users seems to want to get another large iMac. And there aren't even great monitor choices. Studio display costs as much as a low end iMac used to cost. Samsung Ultrafine is horrible (if its even still produced). And other 3rd party monitors usually don't have 5k at 27".
- macintux 3y ago> And there aren't even great monitor choices. Studio display costs as much as a low end iMac used to cost. Samsung Ultrafine is horrible (if its even still produced). And other 3rd party monitors usually don't have 5k at 27". I recall when the first modern iMac came out with a...25" display, I think? The joke at the time was that it was a monitor, and the computer came for free, because no one else was making a monitor of that size and quality, and the price seemed about right for a standalone display.
- yreg 3y agoWell that joke has held, I have a 2019 one and a 5k monitor that nice was probably worth close to the price of the machine. I was sad that the target display mode went away, because I presumed that I would like to keep using the screen for longer than the computer.
- AceJohnny2 3y agoRIP Target Display Mode. The hilarious thing is that the Studio Display is basically just a stealth Target Display Mode device, considering how it's running a trimmed down OS on a phone chip.