The video discusses the Apple Pro Display XDR, highlighting its cost-effectiveness compared to other professional-grade displays despite its high price. It features a robust design, easy-to-use mounting hardware, and impressive technical specifications like factory calibration, 576 local dimming zones, and various reference modes. However, it lacks horizontal adjustment and has some uniformity issues. The Pro Display XDR is praised for making professional-grade HDR mastering more accessible but is noted to be best suited for use with macOS due to system compatibility limitations.
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1. The Apple Pro Display XDR costs $5,000.
2. The display's box is robustly built and has a fabric carrying handle.
3. The box contains a power cable, a Thunderbolt cable, and a note, but no mounting hardware.
4. Apple sells a VESA mount adapter for the display, which costs $200.
5. The Pro Stand for the display costs $1,000.
6. The display has 576 local dimming zones and reference modes for HDR, print, digital cinema, and more.
7. It boasts incredibly deep blacks with advertised sustained brightness of 1,000 nits and peak brightness of 1,600 nits.
8. The display has a 6K resolution and uses Apple's custom timing controller with two simultaneous DisplayPort links on a single Type-C cable.
9. The display is not compatible with PCs, and its Thunderbolt link only works with Macs.
10. The display has a limited viewing angle, and its brightness drops off noticeably around the edges.
11. The display's panel shows a worrying amount of texture on solid colors, especially in darker images.
12. The display's reference modes do a fine job of maintaining color accuracy, with delta-E reliability below 1.
13. The Asus ProArt PA-32UCX costs $1,000 less than the Apple Pro Display XDR and has Adobe RGB support, double the number of local dimming zones, and a mini-LED backlight.
14. The Asus display is missing the Apple display's impressive peak brightness and 6K resolution.
15. The Apple Pro Display XDR is not compatible with PCs, and its features are only accessible on Macs running macOS.