00:00This is Apple's $3,300 Studio Display XDR, and I'm going to unbox it.
00:13I love that these boxes have arrows to tell you exactly where to push out.
00:22Thunderbolt 5 cable. This is for connectivity, but also it will charge your device, I think, up to 100 watts.
00:28And, of course, we have the polishing cloth.
00:34Iconic.
00:47Power cable, attached through here, so it's already connected.
00:50XDR comes with height and tilt adjustment.
00:54Four ports here, two are Thunderbolt 5, and this one here with the circle is an upstream port.
00:59This is how you host onto the monitor when you connect it to your computer, and it's 140-watt charging.
01:04And this is a downstream, still Thunderbolt 5, but it's for high-speed accessories or if you want to daisy
01:09-chain additional displays.
01:11And then these are two USB-C ports that have up to 10 gigabits per second for peripheral storage and
01:16networking.
01:17Now we're going to remove the screen and connect it to my laptop and test it out.
01:21Here we go.
01:36Looks really good. It's really bright, and the black levels are pretty well controlled given that it's a mini-LED.
01:40I don't see much blooming, which is usually the concern there.
01:45Keep in mind, we do have the nanotexture model, so there is an anti-glare display here, but blooming is
01:50very well controlled.
01:56Okay, studio display XDR, $3,300, mini-LED up to 2,000 nits of brightness when used in HDR.
02:02It's a 5K panel with ProMotion, which is a first for Apple.
02:06What do you guys think? Is this overpriced and overhyped, or are there some of you out there, like me,
02:10who actually think this is really cool?
02:12Let me know in the comments.
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