Apple’s Studio Display has performance specs comparable to the latest iPad, despite simply being a monitor.
Much like the tiny-but-beastly Mac Studio, the Apple Studio Display is the type of device only Apple could make. No, I’m not talking about the fancy metallic design,5K resolution, nor its sextuple speaker system. Nor am I even making fun of the $1,600 price tag. Instead, I’m talking about the sheer flex of building a display that, for some reason, is basically as powerful as the company’s latest entry-level iPad. Apple would have probably helped many more users by making a really nice $500 monitor instead, but no, it just had to make an absurdly overpowered monitor instead. Apple already confirmed the monitor is using Apple’s A13 processor — the same chip used in the 2021 iPad. Although that processor was released in 2019 with the iPhone 11, Apple’s lead in mobile chip design means it still goes toe-to-toe with the latest chips from Qualcomm and Google. It also uses a similar 12MP front-facing camera for extra-nice video calls with Center Stage support.
