These Macs Can't Run the Studio Display XDR at 120Hz

The caller Studio Display XDR features a mini-LED show with up to a 120Hz refresh rate, but you'll request a newer Mac to get enactment for the afloat 120Hz.


According to Apple, Macs that person an M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, M2, oregon M3 volition lone enactment the Studio Display XDR astatine 60Hz. All different features stay available.

For the afloat 120Hz refresh rate, you'll request to person a Mac with 1 of the pursuing chips:

• ‌M2‌ Pro, ‌M2‌ Max, ‌M2‌ Ultra


• M3 Pro, M3 Max, M3 Ultra


• M4 Pro, M4 Max


• M5, M5 Pro, M5 Max

All Macs that person an Apple silicon spot tin beryllium utilized with the Studio Display XDR with the upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update.

As for the iPad, The M5 iPad Pro supports the Studio Display astatine 120Hz, but each different compatible ‌iPad‌ models are constricted to 60Hz. Compatible iPads see the M4 ‌iPad Pro‌, the 3rd-6th procreation 12.9-inch ‌iPad Pro‌, 1st-4th procreation 11-inch ‌iPad Pro‌, the ‌M2‌, M3, and M4 iPad Air models, and the 5th-generation ‌iPad Air‌.

For older Macs and iPads that don't enactment 120Hz, determination is small crushed to prime the much costly Studio Display XDR implicit the modular Studio Display. The Studio Display starts astatine $1,599, portion the XDR exemplary starts astatine $3,299.

The Studio Display XDR volition beryllium disposable for pre-order time astatine 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time, with a motorboat to travel connected March 11.
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