John Siracusa

They distinguish the ports by putting like a dot, like a little like bullet next to the one that is the charging port, essentially.

And the other one is the daisy chain, like the upstream port has a dot on it.

So, I mean, there's four ports in the back.

So two have lightning bolts or thunderbolts or whatever.

The two with little lightning bolt symbols are the thunderbolt ports.

The one that has a lightning bolt and also a dot, that is the charging upstream one.

And the other one is the daisy chaining one.

Yeah.

And it's and by the way, it's differentiated that as well, because remember, the other one has an A19.

This one has an A19 Pro.

I'm not entirely sure why it needs the A19 Pro, maybe to handle the dynamic backlighting stuff, because it's the same number of pixels, same, you know, everything.

But maybe it's controlling the backlight displays.

But that is a difference.

There is, especially with display stream compression.

But there are, like, as you're about to read, the compatibility specs for this are not entirely based on hardware features.

and mac os tahoe 26.3.1 or later sorry anyone who doesn't want to update the tahoe this monitor requires tahoe presumably because of display drivers that are only part of tahoe but that's a that's a software choice by apple and only supporting apple silicon is probably hardware based because i imagine the intel ones might not be able to handle the adaptive sync stuff or whatever they just didn't write drivers for it but anyway these are not

ridiculous requirements the os one is a little bit ridiculous like you need the latest latest latest operating system to use a monitor really that's kind of silly but it's the truth and apple silicon like whatever like that's most macs anyway so it's fine

Yeah, it's confusing, but like do read the things because you don't want to spend the money of this monitor and only be able to drive it at 60 hertz.

Like if you have like an M1 Ultra and you're like this really fancy computer that you bought, you know, a Mac Studio M1 Ultra ages ago, you're like, I'm going to get this fancy new monitor and I'm going to get 120 hertz.

You're not.