Apple's new Studio Display is an iOS computer with 64GB of storage and a chip that can power a Mac, iPad or iPhone.
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In fact, it once powered an iPhone . The monitor’s A13 Bionic chip is the same chip that’s inside the iPhone 11 and the 2021 iPad. And remember the Mac DTK, the Mac mini that had an iPad chip inside so developers could build on Apple Silicon before the M1 Macs? That was running on an even older chip. So why is Apple using iPhone chips in a monitor?
"Apple Silicon will undoubtedly make it easier to add software updates to the Studio Display," Simon Bacher, a business and computer science specialist, told Lifewire via email. "For example, it runs iOS 15.4. It enables special camera features and also supports audio features. [FaceTime] Portrait mode and Spatial Audio effects, for example."
The Studio Display is technically powerful enough to be a low-end iMac, but those chips are used for more mundane purposes. They drive the sound system and the webcam. That is, they pull Spatial Audio and Center Stage from the iPad and put it on a monitor.
