

One of the more impressive features is the sound quality that comes from the high-fidelity six-speaker system and force-cancelling woofers.Īpple's own Spatial Audio is supported as well as Dolby Atmos for videos, and I'm simply not used to hearing such a true audio experience from a thin screen like this. There are an additional four ports on the Display, three USB-C and one Thunderbolt 3, all on the rear. The 27-inch 5K retina display offers a resolution of 5120x2880 pixels at 218 pixels per inch (ppi), and a maximum of around 600 nits of brightness.Įven in a well-lit room I was able to enjoy the brilliant picture and the deep colours without having to adjust anything. The Studio Display is a brilliant companion to the Mac Studio.

It is, without doubt, the fastest and most capable computer I've ever used and it made me dread having to send it back. Not only was there no spinning colourful circle indicating hangs, there was no real heat output either. With the M1 Max onboard and 64GB RAM there was nothing I could do to cause the Studio to have to think hard at all about what it was doing. If I was a good-guy hacker in a spy movie, this would be my set-up, with scrolling green code everywhere, hacked surveillance cameras showing me the mean streets of Auckland, a real-time plot of the antagonist's movements and still enough space on the monitors for social media, Netflix, a game or two and my internet browser. That's enough ports to power up to FIVE displays at once - four Pro Display XDRs at 6K resolution over USB-C and one 4K display over HDMI - as well as change your phone and your keyboard at the same time. If that's not enough, then throw in the SDXC card reader and, on my version, two USB-C ports on the front (the M1 Ultra version has two extra Thunderbolt 4 ports there instead). It measures just 7.7-inches square at the bottom and 3.7-inches high but has more than enough room on the back for four Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 10GB ethernet port, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port and audio jack.

The cooling fan alone on my gaming desktop isn't that much smaller than the Studio.
