This may sound weird, but the videos you make are very good to study to! keep it up, so i can keep on passing my exams

Actually, this is genius! If there were more native support for Windows for the displays, I'd absolutely take this into consideration when I ever need a new setup!

I'm the one who wrote the guide on getting bootcamp to work on the mac rumors form, I actually have a variation of this, where I run a windows gaming pc and then stream the full 5k wireless (by using a dummy plug and CRU) to my mac then use moonlight to run my mac and my windows side by side, while retaining the gesture support of my magic trackpad, works pretty well so far. I suppose this solution wouldn't work when you want to use double windows monitors though. hm

The pop top sound effect for the bottle opening was perfection

I've been using a very similar setup for the past two years. It's a great & mostly seamless setup for multi-OS users. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with commitment issues 😅 The main differences are: 1. I use conventional PC displays (One ultra wide, one 16:9). I do not experience any issues when switching between PC & MacBook, however the ultra wide display will occasionally disconnect & reconnect in the span of 1 second. This happens about once per day. The only inconvenience it causes is interrupting screen sharing sessions at work. 2. I use a Logitech MX wireless keyboard & mouse. They support up to 3 Bluetooth targets so this saves me from needing an extra KVM for inputs 3. I use a Kingston Thunderbolt hub for the MacBook instead of plugging cables into it directly

man I cannot wait for Apple to make a tandem oled studio display with promotion

man, if only apple studio display had all 4 usb c ports as thunderbolt. i woudlve got it in a heartbeat. as someone who needs to switch between a PC, and windows laptop, and a mac on daily basis - all that cable replugging will not work.

I've had a 32 inch 4k LG monitor for going on 5 or 6 years now. It's USB-C with 60W of power delivery. I've been trying to find a 27 inch thin bezel second display to put vertically. If these weren't so expensive, I wouldn't hesitate. Great video as always! These experiments are fun to watch.

suzume wallpaper? This guy has some good anime taste! ❤

man ngl this video is the asmr I need to code the productivity and shooting it makes it an immersive experience and gave the outcome to everyone whoever wants to try studio displays for coding in windows or linux including me

Great setup! Personally looking for doing something similar with an OLED UW + other monitor. This is a great look into how I might solve for that. Great production quality as always

You could have gotten a two beautiful oled monitor but you had to waste 3000usd

This sounds like an overengineererd nightmare. One of those adapters will fail and lead you to hrs of troubleshooting .Kiss

the difference between the screens is almost certainly an gamma thing. I would recommend you get a colorimeter, a Datacolor Spyder Pro X or equivalent can help you get these 2 displays perfectly tone matched!

The major problem with connecting a Mac to a display switcher is that if the mac isn't actively on a screen it goes to sleep. Which ruins anything like a plex server that might be running on it. I fiddled with it for so long but there's just no way thanks to mac os it requires an active hdmi to be connected in order to not go to sleep when it's closed even if plugged in. There is no setting to disable this. So be aware.

those usb and display switches usually come with an input for a switch button. I think it would be really cool if you figured out the signal required and connected it to a mechanical key with its own little housing

I've done something fairly similar myself with an '09 imac and gotten it to work pretty seamlessly as if it were a normal display. The displays apple put in their computers are truly killer, and I thought it'd be a shame to never use the display of the imac given it was better than my current one (a cheapo acer, the imac was given to me by someone)

To force your preferred arrangement of multiple displays on macos you can use a software utility called displayplacer

The solution I plan on implementing soon (so this hasn’t been tested) is to have the Mac control everything, but on the Mac have Windows’ native Remote Desktop app to remote control my windows machine. Then have a DAS or NAS act as the main storage for both machines. That way there’s no funky cable and drivers haggling. If both of the computers are connected to a little network switch under the desk, the latency should be minimal. And that way when you leave with your MacBook, you still have access to your full work flow.

I'm loving your videos! Keep doing a great job 😊

Loved this one! Had my attention throughout.

yeah it's pretty much always the cable's fault with display issues. it's a problem for both DisplayPort and HDMI at this point. The high bandwidth needs of top tier displays are not being validated for. very very annoying. I don't think I would ever do my setup like this (I clicked on the video because I do use both a mac mini and windows desktop) But I do think the studio display offers and interesting package. If apple did put in the effort to officially maintain a real (even very basic) windows compatibility that fixes the ridiculous need to power cycle them nobody would argue the capabilities of the setup. (if the bug is caused by the KVM though it's on you 😅)

I use my Macbook Pro with my ProDisplay XDR and for my 3D work I have a Windows workstation with 3x4090 in a room next to my that I control remotly via parsec. I have a 2560x1440 Windows window on my mac and it works flawlessly! Also: I can travel wherever I want and use my Windows workstation, even in hotels with as low as 15 mbit internet speed.

Cheeeese! Great vid thanks for the jangly cable, I have needed something like that for my portable monitor for a one cable solution

Can you please share the mounting bracket used for studio displays?

You could simply use, both monitor on mac, and open remote desktop on mac to use the windows pc.. 😄, same keyboard and mouse without any extra cable or connectors

Correct me if I'm wrong; but wouldn't it be easier (somewhat cheaper) if you just used a Mac Studio / Mac Mini with a M1 / M2 chip and run MacOS with Parallels and then setup two (2) desktops (Windows - 1 monitor desktop / MacOS - 1 monitor desktop). Then you can just use 1 keyboard and 1 mouse and not have any need for a KVM switch and other dongles. Um, because that's what I have been doing since for the last 5 years on my two (2) Mac 27" LED monitors (yes, I did by two thunderbolt to old thunderbolt dongles). Just saying. Happy Tech-ing.

That just looks so sick. Can’t wait to setup my 2 Studio Minitors

the production value of this video is amazing, but this is a seemingly roundabout way of solving a very simple problem. This video is not sharing any good tech advice. My solution to this scenario: 1) Most PC's also have thunderbolt via USB-C. Use a standard usb-c to usb-c cable instead of the jangly cable. Even if you use the jangly cable - this isn't the end of the world. You've got two computers on two screens. 2) Use a software-based KVM like Synergy by Symless. Use the one keyboard and mouse to control both computers including copying/pasting as well as drag/drop between them. 3) Use a common NAS between all the computers. done.

I like the jerryrigged setup, but gosh, it sounds like a huge bother. There are brilliant monitors for less than half the price of the studio display which have built in kvms, but you know that. Overall, nice video.

I mean one of those new 4K 32" QD OLEDS (especially the Asus with it's KVM) would've been a much better setup but hey it's your setup man, burn that budget as you want

Did I miss it in the video but did you ever explain why you chose to use the apple studio displays in the first place? I don't understand it's value proposition at all especially if you were coming from perfect colors on OLED, there are lots of WOLED and QDOLED screens coming out this year that would work better than the massive 48" you had before too

I bought an studio display thinking my job will switch my work machine to a MacBook 🤡 didn’t happened now I’m stuck with the studio display, I have a personal MacBook so it doesn’t bother me, but still it’s very annoying to use with a windows machine, I use the type C included to connect to my dock and it works. Will try brigadier but my take on this is don’t do it, studio display is super cool but unless you need the extra resolution, I’d rather pick an oled gaming monitor or something more cheaper. Great video, super interesting

Thank you for the video. Does the monitor work with its built in spatial speakers when you watch movies from your PC?

The latest Beta version 1.16.0 of TwinkleTray supports Apple Studio Display brightness control in Windows

Not that i want to try it, but my PC has thunderbolt 4 would it "just work" if I plugged it into an apple cinema display?

Honestly, at this point, I'd just use either OS with an emulator for the other OS.

I wish there was a way to use both mac OS and windows OS on a single Operating system using one monitor. By that, I mean if I'm running mac OS, I can quickly switch to windows OS by going to mission control. You can do this already with Parallels for mac but that's virtualization. I don't want to virtualize windows OS on a mac computer, I want to run windows natively from a separate dedicated PC that's more powerful. Before Apple transitioned to silicon chips, you could probably have ran windows OS as a primarily computer and virtualized mac OS using a virtual machine and switch between the operating systems with ease without too much performance loss (since unlike Apple hardware, you can get more powerful PCs for lesser cost). But now that mac OS use ARM architecture now, that's no longer possible. Why do I want to run two Operating systems on a single monitor? I'm not too sure why, but I just find dual monitor setups overwhelming and distracting.

am i the only weirdo who got a macbook pro 16 inch and only uses one screen, no cables, no mouse, the keyboard that comes with it and and an amazing speed... i think im weird maybe

The side flipping seems more like a macOS bug. I don't have these displays but I also have a dual display setup. You can quickly go to settings and flip the status bar over from one display to the other. The black screen issue I personally do not have, however I know for the fact that windows does put the displays into some state where it disables HDCP so that macOS stops playing videos on some streaming services. It could be a somewhat similar issue here as well. Worth comparing HDCP settings in that regard.

Couldn’t you just… use parallels?

Meraviglioso, come sempre ❤

Yea I was thinking about buying 2 of the Pro XDR displays because I wanted the 32in and the display quality but then I saw the pricing. A base Pro XDR display is $5000 but you have to get the stand too which is $1000. Then I always get AppleCare which is $500 pre monitor. Lastly I need 2 so the total is $13000. That is a down payment of a car or the cost of a car back then.😂

I prefer remote desktop these days, but im doing data analysis and light editing so i may be different

Skull 💀 emoji had a second moniter caught me off the Guard 💀💀💀💀💀

I have a setup just like yours w/ dual 5K monitors! You can consider the Kuycon 5k displays - they come with buttons!! (And other inputs)

Awesome. I currently switch between a Mac and a PC on a Studio Display. The main thing that’s bothering me is that with the PC the refresh rate is just 60Hz. Did you found a solution for that?

great content as always

Nice Swiss Appenzeller beer 🔥😂

Idk this seems like a weird way to do this. I would just get a really powerful pc and run VMs of windows and macOS on Linux. Although I'm not sure if that could interfere with the features on the studio display. I just wouldn't get a studio display so that's why I would just run VMs.

I just dont understand how you can use obsidian in light mode

Great Video! But did you try to transfer Data via the Jangly Cable? The Amazon page specificly says that it can't be used for data transfer. I'm using a DELL U2723QE with an included USB hub but it only has one Upstream port for use with a DP (besides the Thunderbolt/USB-C) and I'd like to use two machines with it (Old MacBook, without thunderbolt and a PC)

I did something similar but I find far more useful. 3x 27” displays connected to Apple Studio. Then I have 4 other PCs on my network also. All my Windows boxes are running Windows Pro so I can connect to any of them using Remote Desktop on the Mac. This lets me easily flip beteween any of my machines super easy at any time. Throw in Parallels to run Linux and at any one time I can be able to flip any of my monitors to any one five different pcs and any number of VMs. And it all runs super smoothly and i only need one keyboard and mouse. To do some gaming, which is generally not feasible over Remote Desktop, i have my main Windows machine connected to an alternate input on my middle monitor and i can easily switch to that when i need to. I added a usb switch for my keyboard so i can swap to tha computer when i need to game and my mouse can switch to multiple wireless connections. It might not be a simple click of a button to switch, but im generally either working using RDC or im gaming so its not a big deal. To top it off i have a sound mixer so i pipe the sound from my mac and my main pc into my speakers and can have sound from both at the same time. Great if im playing a movie on one of the side monitors while gaming on the middle. Once i had it all setup i was surprised at how seemless it all is. I have some macro keys to flip through all my full screen apps which makes it super easy to change what im seeing. I can configure RDC to use all my screens for a single connection, but i can still flip each monitor to a different view at any time. I typically have something streaming on the left, a view of my main work pc in the midlle, and on the right i’ll cycle between my Mac to see Messages / mail / etc or a second screen of my main pc, or occasionally a view of a linux vm. And it all just works.

At this point, apple and microsoft data collection centers are in depression

Hi, currently have a 2013 iMac 27" (on my left) and a 2015 iMac 5K 27" (straight ahead). I often 'connect' the 2013 iMac in TDM to use both screens together. My new job will force me to have a 'locked down' windows laptop (13" or 15") - likely to be placed on the right side of my desk. 1). I really want to be able to connect this 'locked down' windows laptop to my 5K iMac. Allowing me to switch between remote working and personal / home use. 2). And still be able to use the 2013 iMac in TDM to use both screens together. Being able to use speakers, webcam, mac wireless keyboard and mac trackpad. If that is not possible. 3). Could I replace the 2013 iMac with a Apple Studio Display (straight ahead) and still be able to connect both the iMac 5K (moved to the left) and this 'locked down' windows laptop to the Apple Studio Display. Any help would be really useful.

I used a much cheaper set up.My M1 mac mini and HP Z1 workstation with 2 27" monitors.Logitech app allows me to drag files from one to the other,but thats as far as I've needed to go for my own needs,I tend to watch instruction videos on one while following on the other for music,art and similar.

This was amazing as this is the exact use-case that I want to replicate. So, to be clear, you have to switch two USB switches to go from the Mac to the PC? ( I need to order a jangly cable )

I do this setup everyday, but the windows machine is a parallels vm. Have to because unfortunately I am stuck using quickbooks, which only really functions on windows.

This was more than fun, I was seriously glued to my single, 38 inch, LG 38GN950P-B ultragear ultrawide monitor... A little mockery never hurt xD But yes, this was absolutely fun to watch and really interesting too. It sort of is what I'd describe as pioneering in our big tech world. Trying to find a solution for a superficial problem, we created by ourselves. But it can lead to maginificent ideas and solutions in the end, just like this experiment did.

bye bye bank account

Try Twinkle Tray for the brightness

Hi, how's it going? Hope everything's fine Great video btw! May I ask the keyboard and keycaps you're using at 0:20? Thanks!

The bottle at the end got me 😂

Thanks for this, I’m trying to do the same. The ‘jangly’ cable says 4K, does it output to 5k from PC to Studio Display?

How’s the color accuracy editing photography?

Brigadier didn't work on my AMD CPU/GPU system and will most likely require Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU.

Good stuff!! I'd love to try it with Linux instead of Windows..

I use a app to integrate periferics that's call synergy,, and a setup o a MacBook on the bottom and a 4k 144hz on top with windows ,, cal digit to the Mac and dp to the 4k and for windows hdmi 2.1, and change on the monitor de imput. and a 3rd monitor to the Mac via dp to

Not sure I understand the USB hub and sharemouse works. Do you still need to click the button on hub to switch inputs between the two computers?

how did you mount your mac under your desk? I've been wanting to do that but not good at 3d printing nor the keywords to look it up

Is 5k acutally working on windows? I can only get 4k with the belkin cable.

I have the same jangly cable but I was just wondering whether you’ve run into issues with windows PC occasionally flickering and turning into a black screen until you do a hard restart where I either need to unplug the cable or turnoff and on the studio display for it to show the screen again. It can happen 20 mins into use or randomly an hour or more. Does this happen to you? I’m on the 2nd cable replacement

What he couldve done was use the Samsung 5k display for the windows machine

ayyy i see an owlab spring

Cool vid

IDK Why not just Remote Desktop to your pc

Use Synergy

Arc Browser !!!! ;)

This is janky and i love it lmfao

crazy interesting but also stupid. I love it!

Does the jangly cable without the dp switcher allow 5k 60 hz on the windows desktop? I’ve been desperately searching for solution that will work on lg 5k monitor without using macOS 😅

What is the game at 7:21?

You should have bought Samsung ViewFinity 5K monitors - same resolution, better webcam (no center stage in macOS though) but it would have removed the need for the special split cable

Congrats , but what a pain of a mess

I mean they're cool monitors but seems like a pain in the ass if you use windows.

Hello! Where did you get the wallet at 2:21 from? 🤔

Game at 7:20?

Like and Sub for the fat cat at 10:24

Hello! I had a question if you don't mind. its about your MacBooks pro battery life. does it the health decrease like 5 or 6% every like 9 months? I got a MacBook Pro m2 Pro 9 months ago, and it is my first MacBook, and I'm curious about how long the battery health lasts. Thank you!!

this idiea sound boss

Honestly these monitors are too much hassles and need to much workaround to be used outside of an Apple machine. fuck apple, once again.

Like for NuPhy

where the fuck is linux

ok cool idea, but why should somebody do this, just why 😝

This looks like a productivity nightmare. Constantly fiddling with various things. You should have just got a better monitor. Rather than this apple shit

Damn, 2 apple studio displays, a huge desk, and a PRS. Are you or your parents millionaire?