Studio display does not work with older versions of MacOS

[Cashmonee]

A monitor that requires an OS to run is pretty silly. A monitor should just do what's its told: display the image given to it. Anything more is nice but it should fail/fallback gracefully. A hard pass on that for sure.

I completely agree with this. The A13 and iOS are not really doing anything all that great to justify all the issues that come with running a complex operating system. Spatial audio in this application is silly and unnecessary. A web cam built into a monitor is already a big compromise (since you have to tilt the whole monitor to adjust the vertical limits of the frame). And Hey Siri is well, Siri... Apple would have been much better off ditching the A13, Center Stage (it is a desktop monitor, who is moving around?), and Spatial Audio and pricing the monitor at a more reasonable point.

 

[dugbug]

A monitor that requires an OS to run is pretty silly. A monitor should just do what's its told: display the image given to it. Anything more is nice but it should fail/fallback gracefully. A hard pass on that for sure.

this is what drives the surround audio and center stage and hey siri for older macs

 

[SpotOnT]

this is what drives the surround audio and center stage and hey siri for older macs

None of those features are desirable for me. I would rather have a well built 5k monitor that just always worked. Regardless of what version of macOS I was using.

 

[PeterLiu]

Hello everyone
I have a Mac Pro 2019 computer (Catalina 10.15.7)with a RUNNING W5700X graphics card

I want to buy a Studio Dispaly,
Does anyone confirmed it work?
(Apple website：Studio Display is compatible with the following Mac models running macOS Monterey 12.3 or later:）

Thanx

 

[lcubed]

it works, just don't expect any control of the webcam (not implemented until monterey)

 

[PeterLiu]

it works, just don't expect any control of the webcam (not implemented until monterey)

I donot need the webcam, Thank you so much.

Hope you have a great day.

 

[Lihp8270]

Does it work with PC running 10? If so that’d be incredible whack that it doesn’t run on Macs with older macOSs.

You can’t adjust brightness etc.

You have to connect to Mac, adjust brightness.

The disconnect it and plug into a windows machine (as it only has 1 input) and then use it locked at the preset brightness.

 

[xraydoc]

I donot need the webcam, Thank you so much.

Hope you have a great day.

Expect problems on Catalina. Including the inability to update the display’s firmware.
If you try it, make sure you can return the display if it’s unsatisfactory.
Apple lists a minimum OS as a requirement for a reason.

 

[PeterLiu]

Expect problems on Catalina. Including the inability to update the display’s firmware.
If you try it, make sure you can return the display if it’s unsatisfactory.
Apple lists a minimum OS as a requirement for a reason.

Okay,youre right.
I got it and appreciate

 

[crowe-t]

I'll be setting up 2 Mac Minis and need to run both on one monitor with a KVM switch. One Mini will be the upcoming M2 Mini and the other is a 2018 Mini running Mojave.

I'd like to use an Apple 27" Studio Display but I do need to use the 2018 Mini at times with Mojave.

Has anyone gotten the Apple 27" Studio Display to work with Mojave?

 

[joevt]

Has anyone gotten the Apple 27" Studio Display to work with Mojave?

It might work for 4K. I think DSC is supported in Catalina but not Mojave therefore it will need to be connected using Thunderbolt to get 5K unless you can get 5K to work with a custom timing at lower refresh rate (somewhere between 39Hz and 47Hz). Actually, the Mac mini 2018's iGPU doesn't support DSC and width > 4K for single tile (single DisplayPort connection) is only supported in Big Sur and later #1 . An eGPU can do DSC in Catalina and later and can support width > 4K.

With Thunderbolt, to get 5K60 (uses dual tile mode using two DisplayPort connections over Thunderbolt), you may also need the Apple Studio (ae3a,ae3b,ae3e,ae3f) override files from Monterey or later macOS versions (override files contain scaled resolutions, display-rotation-policy, display-contrast, mtdd, denylist). I don't think anyway has tried this though?

 

[joevt]

But you can't do Thunderbolt 3 KVM at 40 Gbps so you may need to limit yourself to single DisplayPort connection over USB-C.