The top hinges are used to lock in the angle at which your keyboard sits. The Curve Flex has two sets of hinges, one to adjust the height of the laptop stand from 2 to 11 inches. The Pro Display XDR comes out in Fall.The Twelve South Curve Flex might be a bit on the expensive side but it is so stylish and adaptive that I still consider it the best MacBook Pro stand I’ve tried. It can connect to the desktop using a Thunderbolt 3 cable. The Pro Display XDR was announced along with the Mac Pro desktop. If the Pro Stand doesn’t seem useful, there’s a VESA mount adapter worth $199 also being sold. It supports tilt and height adjustment, and the display can also be rotated to a portrait mode. It consists of a counterbalancer that ensures the display feels almost weightless. The display has an anti-reflective coating and it also comes in a matte finish option that has a nano-texture glass coating.Īpart from the display panel, Apple is selling a Pro Stand separately for $999. Not only does it look but it also acts as a heatsink, reduces the weight and ensure better airflow. To ensure heat dissipation is done efficiently, Apple created the lattice pattern on the aluminium enclosure. There’s a timing controller (TCON) chip that takes care of reproducing the images by controlling the LED array and the LCD pixels.ĭealing with so many pixels and high-intensity light naturally heats up the display. There are more unique layers in between that reflects, mixes and produces all the appropriate colours for the final output. It’s illuminated with an array of 576 blue LEDs modulated by 12 controllers to ensure the right amount of brightness is delivered instantly.

The Pro Display DXR has several layers that lead up to the final picture on the display. It boasts of a “superwide viewing angle” with a different polariser technology while maintaining colour accuracy and contrast. The backlight control implemented on the display ensures high contrast and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. With about 1,000 nits of brightness possible on the display, Apple says that it can peak to up to 1,600 nits. This indicates that it’s capable of reproducing a wide palette of colours with high accuracy. The display comes with a P3 wide colour gamut and a 10-bit colour depth. Starting with the ‘XDR’ naming, it stands for extreme dynamic range. There are several features and design choices that do point it towards that direction. The company is calling it the “world’s best pro display”. Apple Pro Display XDR announced at WWDC 2019.

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