BenQ’s new Mac monitor could be a cheaper alternative to Apple’s new Studio Display

It was first announced past month without pricing aliases readiness details, but BenQ has now shared each the specs for its caller 27-inch 5K show designed for Mac users. The MA270S matches the size and 5,120 x 2,880 solution of the caller Studio Display and Studio Display XDR Apple announced yesterday, including a Nano Gloss aboveground providing improved viewing angles.

The BenQ MA270S will beryllium disposable done the company’s online store and retailers including Amazon this period for $999, making it $600 cheaper than Apple’s caller $1,599 Studio Display. However, it’s not rather arsenic afloat featured arsenic Apple’s latest monitor. The MA270S delivers 99 percent of the P3 colour gamut, but is constricted to 500 nits of brightness, compared to 600 for the Studio Display.

BenQ’s latest besides lacks a webcam, and its brace of 3-watt speakers won’t travel adjacent to outperforming the Studio Display’s “six-speaker sound system.” Instead of Thunderbolt 5, the MA270S is constricted to Thunderbolt 4 speeds and capabilities including daisy-chaining aggregate screens. The show besides includes 2 HDMI and aggregate USB-A and USB-C ports that tin beryllium utilized to link aggregate devices to a machine while besides charging them, moreover while the show is turned off.

Its minimalist creation and guidelines is designed to complement the aesthetics of Apple’s hardware, but the MA270S includes different Mac-focused features. You tin set its measurement and brightness utilizing the buttons connected an Apple keyboard aliases MacBook, aliases you tin group the display’s brightness to sync and lucifer macOS’s automatic brightness adjustments.

We haven’t had a chance to straight comparison the capacity of the BenQ MA270S versus Apple’s caller entry-level Studio Display, but if you’re happy to suffer immoderate bells and whistles to prevention $600, it could beryllium a cheaper replacement without sacrificing image quality.