Samsung on Tuesdayrevealedan update to its Smart Monitor M8 , a stand - alone computer display ( the previous genesis of which features in our round up of theBest Mac monitors ) . For customers search for a high - solvent display but unable to afford Apple ’s 5KStudio Display , the Smart Monitor M8 is an attractive selection ( on newspaper publisher ) if you ’re willing to make some compromises .
For $ 700 ( 32 inch ) or $ 650 ( 27 inches , which is a new offering ) , the M8 will be available in June . It has the follow specs :
Apple ’s Studio Display is better for contented creation since it supports the P3 color gamut , has higher brightness , and True Tone . The Studio Display also has a more rich phone system , a built - in webcam , and a nano - grain glass option . But as an low-cost oecumenical - function display , the M8 checks the boxwood , and then some – it has Samsung ’s SmartTV sport that make the show do double duty as a stand - alone amusement mall . SmartTV includes television cyclosis apps such as Amazon Prime Video , Netflix , and YouTube , and it also has built - in support for Bixby and Amazon Alexa .
The M8 supports AirPlay so you may well out from an iPhone , iPad or Mac . If you ’re using the M8 as a Mac display , AirPlay funding may not be that big of a quite a little , but it ’s a handy feature to have .
An iMac doppelgänger
get ’s finally cover the elephant in the room : The M8 looks like aniMac . It does n’t have a Kuki like an iMac , but the stand ( which has adjustable height , swivel , and tilt , and can swivel ) look like the iMac ’s . The M8 is even uncommitted in four people of color that would fit right in with the iMac ’s color pallette . I actually care Apple designed the iMac to be more like the M8 .
With a dead body heaviness of 11.38 millimeters , the M8 is more or less thin than the iMac ’s 11.5 mm , but I ’d be fine with making the iMac duncish if it helps decimate the chin , as well as planetary house the iMac ’s six gamy - fidelity speakers with force - scratch woofers .
Samsung made a figure determination that most users will differ with : an external webcam that magnetically mount on top of the video display . This is a via media made to keep a slender upper bezel . Apple handle this on its MacBooks by comprise a nick , but on the iMac and Studio Display , the top bezel is bigger . Why not notch the iMac ?
Apple ’s 24 - inch iMac is only two years old , so it ’s not going to be redesign anytime soon . But rumors have floated around that Apple is developing a replacement for the27 - in iMacor theiMac Pro ; a heavy iMac that ’s a stride up spec - wise from the current iMac . It ’d be middling nerveless if Apple did n’t just take the current iMac and make it bigger but offer a design variation that ’s similar to Samsung ’s M8 . That would be an iMac to get really aroused about .
