After what appeared like endlessly, Apple on Tuesday lastly up to date its line of standalone shows. When you’ve been ready for one, you’ll have the ability to preorder tomorrow for supply subsequent week. However earlier than you drop a pair grand on one, there are essential compatibility points it’s essential learn about—specifically, your Mac or iPad could not work with the brand new shows.
First, Apple states that the Studio Show and the Studio Show XDR work solely with Apple silicon-based Macs and iPads. Second, your Apple silicon Mac or iPad must be working macOS/iPadOS 26.3.1 or later. Listed below are the compatibility lists, as proven on Apple.com.
- 16-inch MacBook Professional (2021 and later)
- 14-inch MacBook Professional (2021 and later)
- 13-inch MacBook Professional (M1, 2020 and later)
- 15-inch MacBook Air (2023 and later)
- 13-inch MacBook Air (M1, 2020 and later)
- Mac Studio (2022 and later)
- Mac mini (2020 and later)
- Mac Professional (2023 and later)
- 24-inch iMac (2021 and later)
- iPad Professional (M4 and M5)
- iPad Professional 12.9-inch (third–sixth technology)
- iPad Professional 11-inch (1st–4th technology)
- iPad Air (M2, M3, and M4)
- iPad Air (fifth technology)
Nonetheless, there are some additional caveats to the Studio XDR compatibility. All the M1-series Mac lineup, in addition to Macs with a base M2 chip or M3 chip, are usually not able to working ProMotion on the XDR show. These Macs will keep locked at 60Hz, which considerably defeats the aim of shopping for a $3,299 Studio Show XDR.
The same limitation applies to the iPads. Solely the M5 iPad Professional can run the Studio Show XDR at 120Hz. All different iPads will stay at 60Hz.
We’ve contacted Apple, and we’ll replace this text with extra clarification on what works with the Studio Shows.
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