GoKawiilThe desire to own an Apple Studio Display has probably been hanging over most Mac desktop users since time immemorial (well, since 1998 at least, but most people are more familiar with the “modern” 2022-era look) for two reasons:
It defines what a desktop Mac display should, ideally, look like–a black-edged, aluminium-backed slab with zero frills and impeccable image quality.
It has, traditionally, been hilariously expensive along every single dimension, including polishing cloths, until the historic date of August 27th this year.
And I, too, have always wanted one. But economics and insularity are part of the reason I never got one, although that hasn’t stopped me: I’ve always been curious about what it would be like to use a credible approximation of one, but with a twist: I like taller displays.
And now, I can confirm that this is probably the best single monitor set-up I’ve used for a long while:
The P20 on my living room desk.
Disclaimer: Kuycon supplied me with a P20 free of charge (well, actually two, but that’s part of the story) and this follows my review policy.
Getting here took several months. The first panel flickered, and pressing on a corner of the monitor improved things. I suspected a partially disconnected internal connector, but couldn’t confirm the cause, although I very strongly suspect shipment damage.
I returned the first unit, but the replacement arrived without a stand, so I couldn’t use it for many weeks. And then I went on vacation, and that further delayed things…
I finally set it up (again) on our living room desk (the space I now retire to whenever I’m not working, either due to needing clear separation from work or to my 3D printers making the office too noisy) and have now been using it properly for a few weeks.
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