"The Apple Studio Display is a Bad Deal"

Apple went out of the way to engineer the power cord to not be user removable and also engineered a special tool to remove it.

I'm surprised they didn't offer a 'Studio stand' with cutouts allowing you to place the Mac Studio on the base of the stand and thread all the cables through it... for $399 extra dollars

Apple marketing logic: "We don't send chargers with the iPhones anymore, because of environmental reasons." "If your power cable breaks, you have to send in the whole thing!" (I would even consider myself a fan boy. But some stuff they do makes me puke. It's just greedy.)

The nonremovable power cable is absolutely absurd. They actually went out of their way, and spent R&D money, to design a new, worse cable when they already had multiple options for something good.

It seems like Apple is testing what people are willing to pay for at this point… the fact that it costs nearly the same as an iMac 5k did is laughable.

The fact that the M1 iMac 24in with a 4.5k display exist for $1,300, which is a full computer makes this a terrible deal. I was at an apple store and my sister said "So this display is more than that computer? That makes no sense".

Unremovable cable is ridiculous, it's almost like apple wants right to repair regulation to come into law. It truly serves no purpose

I think Apple fixed all of what they consider mistakes from the last display. Removable cable, removable stand, vesa mounting, any user repairability or customizability that might have snuck through

Missed opportunity: Apple could have priced this at $2500 and sold the exact same number of units. Anyone crazy enough to spend $1600 would be crazy enough to spend $2500.

You got my thumb’s up on the last sentence. 😂 Great review.