It's nothing compared to the XDR. I have no idea why this person thinks the XDR is bad for everyday users.
- I got one as a programmer who mostly looks at text. If you didn't tell me it has HDR always enabled I wouldn't have known, they've done an excellent job with managing bloom on non-HDR content.
- The resolution makes text milky smooth in a way that I always though 4k was this whole time
- 60hz has never bothered me despite regularly switching between this, the 144hz monitor, and a 360hz monitor....
- Accelerometer is neat enough, I have mine on a gas spring monitor arm and can be occasionally helpful to rotate
- Build quality is unmatched by all the gamer aesthetic stuff out there. Remove "backlight bleed" from your vocabulary.
I got Dell's "5k" ultrawide before the XDR, and at the time M1 Macbooks couldn't do fractional scaling at that high of a resolution.
The result was essentially a wider 32" 1080p screen. And while the text was crisp, the space efficiency was absolutely awful.
I can't even imagine the 16:9 version of that...
