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Adventures in Using an Apple Studio Display as a Gaming Monitor

Adventures in Using an Apple Studio Display as a Gaming Monitor

If you listened to last week’s Club MacStories+ Town Hall podcast, then you heard the gang dogpile on me for my questionable life choice of connecting an Apple Studio Display to a gaming PC. Naturally, I must now take to the Monthly Log to explain myself and defend my honor.

Before we begin, let’s get the obvious out of the way: the Apple Studio Display is not a gaming monitor. It is not good at the things that gaming monitors are supposed to be good at. Its frame rate is too low, its resolution is unnecessarily high, and it only connects via Thunderbolt. If you are in the market specifically for a gaming monitor, do not buy an Apple Studio Display.

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