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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by geerlingguy on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:33AM (#47232943)
Regular consumers probably don't buy these displays in bulk, when you can get very nice displays for less than half the price that are 98% the same on specs.

So targeting checkbox-compliance for places like hospital systems is probably an easy win to generating / keeping some long term contracts.

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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by sbrother on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:00AM (#47233406)
> you can get very nice displays for less than half the price that are 98% the same on specs.

Can you recommend any displays with PPI and brightness equivalent to the studio display, with 120Hz+ refresh rates? I was waiting for this announcement to buy a studio display because I thought they might bring 120Hz to the base model, but $3300 is a lot to spend on a single display. I have an original studio display and a high refresh rate 4K OLED monitor, and they are both compromises unfortunately.

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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by themacguffinman on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:46AM (#47235103)
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-rog-strix-27-dual-mode-...

I haven't found a glossy competitor, or even one with the same HDR spec, but this is the closest I could find so far.

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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by rscrawfo on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:38AM (#47234982)
The price point is super painful. 2k would have been bad enough but I would have considered it. It’s a no go at $3,300 for me.
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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by AdamN on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:38AM (#47233020)
I don't think you can get a DICOM-certified display at 5K and 27" for half the price. Probably like $1k less but that's it - and if you're a radiologist making $300k+ you're not going to want to cheap out on a display.
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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by geerlingguy on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:40AM (#47233073)
No I'm saying regular consumers don't care about DICOM certification. They care about the other 98% of the specs, and can find a suitable alternative.
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Re:Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Displ... by danudey on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:16PM (#47237329)
If you're a radiologist making $300k+ you're going to want to use certified displays so that you don't get sued for using non-approved devices for diagnostic use, and that's going to cost you maybe $6k for a 21" monitor.

https://www.monitors.com/products/jvc-cl-s500-rn?variant=427...

$3300 for a 27" display is ridiculous in comparison.

(Acknowledging that the link I provided is for a pair of monitors, but also those monitors are half price because they're refurbished)

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