John Siracusa

There are only ones that are about the same for less money.

And we call that a win in the world of Apple monitors.

We call that a win because you're paying the premium, but you're getting a premium monitor that looks really good and has modern specs, modern ish specs.

Like again, 120 Hertz, there are ones with higher rates than that, but this is not a gaming monitor.

Like over 120 Hertz is kind of wasted on you scrolling your windows for the most of the times.

you're not playing a video game where you want 144 or whatever, or like, you know, three 40 or whatever.

So like for its purposes as a color accurate, uh, high quality, well-made Mac native monitor, the features of this are good.

And I give a thumbs up.

The price is not so good, but what do you expect?

It's the highest of the high end.

And I say, again, it is still less egregious than the XDR was.

And certainly less egregious than the XDR was, uh,

two days ago when it was still for sale with the same specs from like six years ago.

So the XDR needed to be discontinued, like to be clear, like it needed to either be price reduced, which is not a thing that Apple's super into or discontinued.

And so it was discontinued.

I don't hold a grudge on that.

I do continue to hope that someday Apple will release, like bring it back at the same price, like a higher end monitor that is essentially like this, but XDR sized and just do it at XDR.

Like, look at the price.

This is 3,600 bucks.

$5,000, $6,000 for an XDR with these specs, that's in line with these prices.