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Apple Studio Display - Owners Thread
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When I check in the system settings, I get 44,99$/year, or 119$ for 3 years (in $CAD). Maybe this is just for the Mac, and don't cover the ASD? It's not clear yet.
EDIT: Hmmm, this may be just for the computer itself. I don't see any reference to the ASD.
I believe when I got mine I had to buy it using the serial number. It's hard to remember now though.
I got it considering the ridiculous expense this monitor has been. I don't even care if it (likely) ends up just being free money into Apple's pocket. Too much money to risk.
Not according to
What’s new in firmware updates for Apple Studio Display - Apple Support
Learn about changes and features included in the firmware updates for your display.
Sorry, I've asked this at least once before, but for the life of me can't find the answer. Which monitor arm is this? HX Dual?Same here.
I still wouldn’t settle for the ASD speakers, though. (Or the ASD stand, for that matter. Or camera. Or microphone.)
Any complaints or are you still happy with it?
I've been using the HX for my ASDs, but have just bought another one and the monitor is too light for it to stay in position. I spoke with Ergotron who have confirmed that its not faulty, but that the ASD is too light for use with the HX, so they've no idea how the other two I have are working.
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I have one HX Desk Dual:
Heavy Duty Dual Monitor Arm | Ergotron HX Desk Monitor Mount
Choose a monitor arm that’s as adaptable as you. With the HX Desk Dual Monitor Arm, you can easily reposition two 32" monitors while still enhancing your workspace with a sleek design.
www.ergotron.com
And one HX Wall:
Heavy Duty Wall Mounted Monitor Arm | Ergotron HX Wall Mount
Choose a monitor arm that’s as adaptable as you. With the HX Wall Monitor Arm, you can reposition large monitors weighing up to 42 lbs (19.1 kg) while still enhancing your workspace with a sleek design.
www.ergotron.com
I have swapped the top parts between them a few times. In both cases they have been fine, and I am actually using the dual arm with a single ASD currently by simply removing the side arms and mounting the monitor in the middle instead. This also works perfectly fine, and I am happy with it, no complaints.
(Possibly moving it requires more force than intended because the ASD is light and I have the screw a little tight. At most it is a little annoying, but definitely not a problem.)
Thanks @Arctic Moose!I have one HX Desk Dual:
Heavy Duty Dual Monitor Arm | Ergotron HX Desk Monitor Mount
Choose a monitor arm that’s as adaptable as you. With the HX Desk Dual Monitor Arm, you can easily reposition two 32" monitors while still enhancing your workspace with a sleek design.
And one HX Wall:
Heavy Duty Wall Mounted Monitor Arm | Ergotron HX Wall Mount
Choose a monitor arm that’s as adaptable as you. With the HX Wall Monitor Arm, you can reposition large monitors weighing up to 42 lbs (19.1 kg) while still enhancing your workspace with a sleek design.
I have swapped the top parts between them a few times. In both cases they have been fine, and I am actually using the dual arm with a single ASD currently by simply removing the side arms and mounting the monitor in the middle instead. This also works perfectly fine, and I am happy with it, no complaints.
(Possibly moving it requires more force than intended because the ASD is light and I have the screw a little tight. At most it is a little annoying, but definitely not a problem.)
I'm going to order one of those dual mounts I think, tidy things up a bit and have both screens mounted uniformly.
I'm still struggling with my setup and working out what's best - even coming back to thinking a single screen might be the best, if that's 27" then so be it, but I just wish Apple would make the ASD in a variety of sizes.
I switched to a single ASD in two different locations, primarily because I switched from a MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air, which of course lacks dual-monitor support without ugly hacks.
However, I am finding I rarely miss the second monitor, and having only one reduces a lot of cognitive stress caused by the poor handling of multiple monitors in macOS.
Same here. I really hate how multiple displays are handled on Mac OS. I am back to using only 1 display in my work from home setup.
Here are just a few I can think of without fiddling with it:
- If you have "Displays have separate Spaces" enabled it seems you cannot have a full-screen app on each screen, and if it is not enabled the menu bar only shows on the primary monitor, making it cumbersome to reach menu items from the secondary display.
- The system is extremely bad at determining reasonable window placement. If I am working on something on one monitor and open a tool palette, often it will appear on the other one. There are a thousand different variations of this.
- If you activate search (command-space) from one monitor and select an app to open, more often than not it appears on a different monitor. I realize it is opening it where it was last open, and maybe this is a reasonable default, but I'd like a setting for more flexibility.
- The brightness and True Tone settings only work for the primary monitor. Before I figured this out I thought one ASD was faulty, because one was a crisp blue and the other a murky tobacco.
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This one is partly incorrect.
If "separate spaces" is enabled, you can have different full-screen apps on each display. If it's not enabled, then the second display just goes black when something is blown up to full screen.
It is true, however, that the menu bar only shows on both if "separate spaces" is enabled. If disabled, the menu bar shows only on the primary display.
What I find somewhat irritating is that when separate spaces is turned on, an app window cannot span both displays, not even temporarily. So I cannot widen a spreadsheet window to cross from one display to the other.
I have a MBP M2pro, battery operated with AlDente, with plugged an external monitor (LG 27' Ultrafine 5K).
Using windows 11 with parallels desktop, the battery consumption is around 50% in 5 hours (10% per hour).
I tryed to plug in an old 24' monitor and the battery consumption was only 10% in 5 hours!
Looking over the internet, the high battery consumption when using 5k external monitor is related to the higher GPU usage.
I wonder if the battery consumption with ASD is the same with LG 5K ultrafine (perhaps ASD has better MacOS integration or uses A13 to support GPU): does anybody have experience with these two monitors and checked a different battery consumption?
Before buy expensive ASD, i wait for yours feedback! tks
Using windows 11 with parallels desktop, the battery consumption is around 50% in 5 hours (10% per hour).
I tryed to plug in an old 24' monitor and the battery consumption was only 10% in 5 hours!
Looking over the internet, the high battery consumption when using 5k external monitor is related to the higher GPU usage.
I wonder if the battery consumption with ASD is the same with LG 5K ultrafine (perhaps ASD has better MacOS integration or uses A13 to support GPU): does anybody have experience with these two monitors and checked a different battery consumption?
Before buy expensive ASD, i wait for yours feedback! tks
I don't understand your question. The ASD provides 96W of charging to the MBP when it's connected to the monitor. Why would there be any "battery consumption"?
Note: I ran my MBP14 this way for a long time w/ no issues. I now have the ASDs hooked to a Studio
When using the MBP, the charging (with power cable or monitor) is stopped with AlDente to save battery life. at the end of the day, when i turn off the MBP, the charging turn on (so at the begining of the day is 100 % charge)
Sorry, I confused the two settings. Anyhow, I am amazed that there is a mode where there is no option to use two fullscreen apps on two different displays. (I cannot recall now why I needed to turn off "separate spaces", but there was a good reason at the time.)
Yes, this is also really annoying!
This doesn't make sense to me. Are you sure you have Al Dente set up right? I use it and it holds at 80% when powered, runs the battery down when on battery and charges back to 80% when necessary. It shouldn't ever go to 100% unless that's what you want - in which case why use Al Dente?
Still I don't see what this has to do with the ASD.
Let's forget Al Dente.
More simply, i'm asking if anybody has compared the battery consumption of mbp with ASD connected rather than with LG 5K (while charging of mbp is prevented)
More simply, i'm asking if anybody has compared the battery consumption of mbp with ASD connected rather than with LG 5K (while charging of mbp is prevented)
You cut part of my quote:
Where by "there is a mode" I mean that having separate spaces off, for whatever reason, means you have a dead second monitor if you want to use fullscreen apps. I am amazed that you cannot both have separate spaces off, and also use two fullscreen apps.
Finally joined the ASD crew and it's an absolute dream, a couple of questions have come to mind that I can't seem to find anywhere on the web or forum;
With the tilt and height adjustable stand is there any particular way to move the display? Only reason I'm asking this is that I might change the cable for the 1.8m thunderbolt 4 cable, but trying to pick the display up makes me worry I'll damage the stand
Also if the display is used infrequently is it best just leaving it on and ready for use or would switch it on / off at the mains benefit it more? I'm just conscious of longevity etc
Thanks all in advance
With the tilt and height adjustable stand is there any particular way to move the display? Only reason I'm asking this is that I might change the cable for the 1.8m thunderbolt 4 cable, but trying to pick the display up makes me worry I'll damage the stand
Also if the display is used infrequently is it best just leaving it on and ready for use or would switch it on / off at the mains benefit it more? I'm just conscious of longevity etc
Thanks all in advance
I think carefully and slowly lifting by the display itself should be ok. The back of the display can support the weight of the stand (since the stand supports the weight of the display).
Some people are very particular about turning the power off to the display since there is a fan in there. But honestly, I don't think it's an issue.