Oh no, Apple definitely won't like this

要点：

• Apple目前是唯一出售6K显示器的公司
• 新款显示器尝试模仿Pro Display XDR的设计
• 6K分辨率极其出色，带来更清晰的画面
• 新款显示器的价格相比Pro Display XDR更为亲民
• 作为一款高端监视器，性价比令人惊叹

Okay. I want people to understand how. I mean it's not insane, but how crazy it is that they right now Apple are really the only other company that sell a 6K display. The Pro Display XDR. That Pro Display XDR has been on sale since 2020, 2021, something like that. Since then, there has pretty much been no one else that sells a 6K display. Until now, that is.

To be fully honest with you, I don't know if this is the exact same panel in the Pro Display XDR. There are a few big differences. Most notably being that this is an IPS panel, not a mini LED panel like the Display XDR. I can't really find any answers anywhere. Let's just see what it's like. Because I have a feeling that it is the same exact display.

I am pretty excited to unbox this. I need to actually stabilize the desk because like I said, I've been waiting for a 6K competitor for obviously ever since the Pro Display XDR. I bought the Pro Display XDR because there was nothing else out there like it. There's no other display that's 6K resolution. And 6K resolution is one of those things there. Once you try it, once you use it, you realize how insanely useful 6K is.

There is a box within a box in here. Let's get the monitor out. There we go. And then I assume this is. Yep, this is the monitor stand. Okay. This box here is much nicer though. That actually looks a lot nicer. You can see they are trying to copy this sort of Apple style here. I think it looks pretty good on the side.

We can see that it's the Koikcon G32P resolution. It actually has a resolution on here 6144 by 3456. I'm not sure if that's actually the same resolution as the Pro Display XDR. I think that might be a few pixels difference there. So maybe it's not the same panel. It can't be. If it's not the same resolution, must be a different one.

So this is 32 inches in size. So it is a big monitor. Bigger than the average monitor that most people would have in their setup. Re good to go underneath here. We do indeed have the monitor itself. If we've open this up. Wow. Okay. Wow. I've got to show you this, guys.

So we can see they have tried to imitate the Pro Display XDR sort of back of the display. It's not very good. I'll be honest with you. I don't think it looks very good because it doesn't have the depth that the Pro Display XDR does. The Pro Display XDR, the actual holes are a lot deeper and they're sort of curved. This is more sort of flat. That's the best way I can explain it.

But what is nice to see is the connectivity. We have two HDMI ports, we have a display port, and then we have three USB C ports. This USB C port here will be for connecting to your Mac. And then we have a three pin power connection in, which is nice because that is easily replaceable. So if you have a damaged cable or whatever, you can easily replace that.

Oh, of course we have a 3.5 millimeter jack. Other than the odd imitation, the aluminium is very high quality. It feels very nicely finished. Feels premium. It feels like an expensive product. There is a VESA mount adapter included which is useful so you can mount it to a monitor arm you don't have to use the standard they include.

And it's also nice to see that included, including the price. Because with Apple you either have to pay for the VESA mount adapter or you have to pay for the monitor stand. Neither are included, which is just crazy, really. We have HDMI cable, DisplayPort cable, and a little remote. I like remotes.

I know some people don't like the idea of remotes, but I actually really do like having a remote. So then I don't have to reach around the back of the monitor to change anything. We do have a USB C cable included, which is nice. This will be used for connecting a one cable setup to your Mac. The other great thing with a one cable setup like this is that it will charge your machine. So this can charge up to 100 watts as far as I can tell.

Next we need to get into the actual stand of this thing. So this is different from the other stand that I got. We get the base plate here for it. Super nice and easy. We just have this stand here. Solid aluminum stand. Feels very high quality. It's very, very similar to the other stand that I had in the other video for the 5K version of this monitor. Monitor mounting time monitor is mounted to the stand.

We can rotate it to be portrait. But oh, it's so close to the bottom. It's literally millimeters away from the bottom there. But yes, we can rotate it so we can have a fully portrait 6K monitor for watching TikToks and Instagram Reels. What an absolute waste of time that would be. And I don't know why you would buy a monitor just for that.

Whoa. There's actually lots of movement in this. Holy moley. I don't like all the sounds it's making, but there is tons of movement here to get the monitor at the angle that you would like. You can move it up and down too, which is nice. I have already noticed some odd parts here though. Let me show you guys actually.

So I don't know if you guys can see that, but there is a sort of residue here which I assume is some sort of glue from where they've obviously had to put the monitor together. Yeah, it's not exactly ideal. I can even feel it sort of peeling off in my fingers. Ugh, just one of those things, I guess. You know, when you're not paying that sort of Apple Premium, you can't expect the Apple premium-ness as well, I guess.

Okie dokie. Now is the time to peel the screen protector. O okay. This is gonna take a while because it's not peeling off nicely. One eternity later. Okay, we are nearly at the end now. Wow, you can really see those fingerprints. I've got to get those off. I think it still looks really good. Like it still does look incredible.

Just very minimal, very clean, no branding or anything. I do like that. You know, I think if you had that on your desk and people didn't see the back of it, they would think that's an Apple display. Like it really does look like a display that Apple makes right now, whether it's the pseudo display or the Pro Display XDR.

So before we plug it in, I just want to look at the back of it again just to show you guys what it looks like at the back. I do think it looks good. It's not exactly like a Pro Display XDR, but it's pretty close. I think if someone hadn't seen the Pro Display XDR in person, they would think that this looks nearly exactly the same.

Like they would probably think that it's a Pro Display XDR. I think from the back it's good, it looks good. I think it's a nice-looking monitor. I think they've done a good job here of trying to imitate what Apple has when it comes to thinness. Yeah, I mean, it's not exactly a thin monitor, but it's not too thick either. I'm impressed.

So far. We'll see what it's like once I plug it in. And what the display quality, what the panel quality is actually like. Boom, we're in. It looks really good, actually, so far. Default resolution, which is 3072 by 1728, which I think is exactly half of the actual resolution, which is what we want because then it scales it perfectly.

From first glance, the colors look good, maybe a bit bluer than they should be, but from first glance, they do look good.

Oh, wait, that turns it off. Okay, amazing. I've got the remote working now, so the infrared sensor I use under here, I can press the menu button on the remote. And these are some of the settings that we see. We can adjust the brightness in here because you cannot adjust the brightness through the Mac display, as far as I can tell.

What I do like to see here, though, is the ability to change the color temperature and the color mode. Like these are useful options to have because if you want to get the color right for the monitor, you of course need to adjust these settings. So I'm glad they've put these in here.

By the way, if you're interested in the wallpaper, I will leave a link to the wallpapers that I'm using as part of the new palette pack that I've just launched. But yeah, looking at the colors, like when I look at the colors on my Mac and I look at the colors on the display, they are very, very close.

This is an IPS panel, so I can tell that the blacks are raised compared to the blacks on my Mac. They're not as deep as a mini LED display like they are on the Mac or on the Pro Display XDR. From looking at it here, there's like a bluey, purpley tinge. So maybe with some adjustment, I can get it to look a bit more white, but the colors look good other than that.

And it's so sharp, like the 6K resolution. It just looks so sharp. Like, it's hard for me to explain how good 6K resolution is until you use it yourself. You realize how much more screen estate you have, how much more things you can fit on the display all at one time.

You know, some people will get multiple displays or ultra wide displays so they can fit more on the display, but when you do that, you lose a lot of clarity, a lot of sharpness because the displays aren't sort of true Retina Quality. This is a true Retina display where you have a 6K resolution in a 32-inch size. So the text, the images, and everything just looks so sharp.

The UI elements look incredible. Yeah. Looking at the colors here on my store as well for the wallpapers and stuff. Yeah, it does look good. It does look good. I can easily already see this being a good display when you've calibrated it, of course. But I can see this being a good display for photo editing, video editing, because it is a 10-bit panel.

I'm impressed. I'm impressed so far. And you have additional ports on the back. So you can connect a PC through the display port. You can connect a PS5 or games console through the HDMI port. Now, of course, a games console isn't going to be 6K resolution.

It will most likely just be 4K upscaled. But there won't be any sort of proper upscaling. It will kind of just fit it to the display. But when connected to a PC, you'll have a true 6K resolution with a PC. Now, that was pretty much unheard of before. Like it just wasn't a thing.

You could connect the Pro Display XDR, but you couldn't adjust any of the settings because the settings for the Pro Display XDR were built into macOS. With this, you now have the remote so you can adjust any settings independently regardless of what device you have connected.

So I've got the light in the room open here and yeah, the image just looks so good, man. Like 6K resolution. Damn, the images look so, so good.

Okay, we have the Pro Display XDR as well here now looking at them side by side though, very, very quickly before I turn it on. Like I said, the bezels are definitely thinner on the Pro Display XDR, but now that they're side by side. Oh, I really don't think most people are even gonna be able to tell the difference.

They're so close. When you're looking at them like this though, they actually look like the same display. Like it's actually quite scary. Even the stand looks near enough exactly the same. This is surprisingly closer than I expected. A lot closer than I expected.

To my eye, when looking at these two displays, holy moly. They look so, so close. Like it's weird. Okay folks, I've just come to the realization that the Koikcon G32P has a higher resolution than the Pro Display XDR. It's not by much, but it is higher resolution.

The Pro Display XDR is 6016 by 3384, Koikcon G32P is 6144 by 3456. I put the resolutions on the screen so that you guys can see. When I have a window completely open, the edges are actually really, really good. They are a little bit dark, but not noticeably so, unless you're actually looking for it.

I found that the edges on the Pro Display XDR are dark anyway. Like that's just a given. With this sort of type of display, you're not going to have it completely perfect because obviously they're not OLED panels. But with this being mini LED, it definitely I can already tell that the blacks are just a lot blacker, a lot darker on this display.

This is where I see the biggest difference though. When I have two Figma files open, two designs on the camera, I don't think you're going to be able to see. But I can see it here, the Pro Display XDR, it just feels like I can see the shadows, I can see the details of my design here a bit better. The whites and the gray background, they look more sort of true, more realistic.

On the Koikcon, everything just has a tinge to it. Right now it looks like it has like a purpley tinge. The texture shot, the UI elements are sharp, but it just doesn't have that same finesse and same clarity that the Pro Display XDR has.

However, this is something you've got to keep in mind. The price difference between the two. The Pro Display XDR without a stand, without a VESA mount, nothing like that is what, like, four and a half thousand dollars? $4,000, something like that. Can't remember the exact price. That's so much money. That's a ridiculous amount of money.

And then for the stand I have here, that's an extra thousand dollars. So technically this is a $5,000 package right here for just this setup. This however, including the monitor stand, including the VESA mount, the cables, everything, so it works straight out of the box, is $1,800.

So it is less than half the price of the Pro Display XDR. And I say you are getting 80% of the experience. 80%. Because the Pro Display XDR obviously has a lot more functionality than just the resolution. Right.

I need to minimize these colors because I feel like they're so bright. But this is a high-end, almost business-grade product. This isn't really technically for consumers, it's for people who are doing high-end video work, high-end photo editing work. I've seen a lots of reviews and a lot of people compare this to monitors that are $20,000, $30,000 in the sort of film industry, knowing that you get the same experience on a $5,000 monitor was just unheard of at the time.

You are not going to get the same experience here. This isn't a mini LED display. It doesn't have the calibration like the Pro Display XDR has. Apple obviously makes sure that the Pro Display XDR is calibrated perfectly out of the box.

I think with this monitor, what you're really paying for is the resolution, the 32-inch size. Because there is literally nothing else out there right now like it. I know LG, I know Asus do have 6K resolution monitors coming out soon, but they're not out yet. They're not available to buy. You can't go out and buy them on the Internet.

With this monitor you can actually go buy it right now and get it shipped right now. So really, this is the only competitor to the Pro Display XDR. Another huge difference between these two monitors is the brightness. The Pro Display XDR can do up to 1600 nits.

Like I don't think people understand how bright 1600 nits is. It's outrageously bright. The Koikcon monitor can only do 500 nits. So huge difference there. And I can definitely tell when I'm watching HDR movies, HDR content.

On the Pro Display XDR, the experience is unreal. Like it's so hard to explain until you actually see it. But that sort of brightness with HDR content, the way it just is so striking on the display, there's nothing else like it. You are not going to get that experience on the Koikcon monitor.

I want to show you guys a quick side by side here of the two monitors. Could you tell the difference? Like I. If you didn't already know that this was the Pro Display XDR, and then this one was the Koikcon monitor, would you be able to tell the difference?

I don't think you can. I'll be fully honest with you. They look so, so similar from the front. So this is a really good copy. A really, really good copy. Let's go around the back. So here we are around the back of the monitors and you can see the differences now.

They still look very similar, of course, but you can really see the difference in the sort of design here. You can see the Pro Display XDR finish and the sort of design of. I don't even know what this design actually is. I forgot what it's called.

But you can see it's a lot more three-dimensional compared to the Koikcon monitor. The Koikcon monitor is very flat from the side profile. They're actually near enough exactly the same thickness. Maybe there's a couple millimeter difference, but they are very, very similar.

One thing I don't know if you guys can see is that the Pro Display XDR, the edge, like there is no seal, but you can see on the Koikcon there is a seal. You can also just see here the difference in the sort of finishing. You’re paying for that premium with the Apple product.

I do wonder what Apple are thinking because here's a company coming out with what is a monitor that does like 70, 80% of what the Pro Display XDR does at half, well, less than half the price. Do I recommend it? Should you go out and buy the Koikcon G32P?

That really depends on you. If you're someone who has been interested in the Pro Display XDR, you don't want to spend $5,000, you don't care too much about the sort of high-end functionality of like the color profiles, the video editing stuff, and the amazing color accuracy. But you want the 6K resolution and stuff then.

Yeah. I actually think this is a monitor I would recommend, but I would recommend it sort of. It's one of those things where I'd be wary, right? Because you're buying it from a manufacturer where you're not going to get the same level of support as you would from a more sort of popular, a more established manufacturer.

You know, companies like Apple, Asus, LG, these sorts of companies, they provide very good customer service. You're not just paying for the product, you're also paying for the experience after you've bought the product. You're not going to get that same experience here.

I don't think like if there's any issues with it, you're sort of just going to have to live with it. But considering the massive price difference here and how this is $1,800 compared to $4,000, $5,000, it's just, it's such good saving.

Like you can buy two of them for the same amount that you buy one of these, which is just crazy to me. Like this is a 6K resolution monitor, it is 60Hz, both of them are 60Hz. So if you're looking for a high refresh rate monitor, then look away. This is not the place.

Like if that's what you care about, there are so many other better 4K 240Hz, 480Hz monitors out there. This isn't for high refresh rate. This is for people who just value purely that resolution. The screen estate, having all that screen estate to work with, having a large 32-inch monitor, one monitor that could pretty much do everything.

And the advantage of the Koikcon monitor over the Apple monitor is that you can connect other devices, you can connect your games console, you can connect your PC, you can have multiple devices connected to it at any one time. So this can truly be your one monitor for everything.

With the Pro Display XDR, that is not the case. You can just only connect your Mac, really your Mac. That's it. You can't really connect anything else. You can try to, but you can't adjust any other settings or anything like that.

So that is one advantage which surprisingly has over the Pro Display XDR. Now obviously I already have the Pro Display XDR so I'm going to continue using it. But I think what is something that I wasn't expecting to say as I was recording this video and as I was using this monitor is that if I didn't have the Pro Display XDR and this had come out and I knew it was $1,800, I would go out and buy this over that right now.

Like I just would. The sort of Pro video functionality, the Pro video features and stuff of this and the sort of color profiles and stuff, they're really great, they're really, really nice. But I don't use them that much.

The color accuracy, sure, it's absolutely top notch. It's one of the best in the industry. But considering I'm making YouTube videos, I'm editing photos in Lightroom and stuff for Instagram and stuff, they're not, I guess you could say super commercial grade.

Like, you know, I'm not doing commercials for bloody cinema and TV, I'm just doing stuff on YouTube. I'm doing stuff for creator stuff. This would be good enough. Like I would just calibrate it. I'd get a calibrator colorimeter, I'd adjust the settings in macOS and just get the colors just the way I like them.

And I would probably be completely happy. And I think most other people will be as well. Yeah, I'm actually surprised that I am actually recommending this monitor because I was fully expecting not to recommend it because I was expecting to find a lot of flaws.

Obviously it's not perfect. You know, there are sort of like residue along the top, the bezels aren't as thick, it doesn't have the brightness, and the color isn't exactly perfect out of the box. There are these minor sort of issues, but considering how much money you're saving, like it's just.

Yeah, it's just crazy to me that you can buy two of them for the price of the Pro Display XDR. So hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments your thoughts. I'm sure a lot of people will have a lot of thoughts about this monitor, Pro Display XDR, and everything else that's going on.

What I really want actually is a 6K resolution display like this that I can do 120Hz. Like I do want that higher refresh rate but I don't need it necessarily. It's why I've been happy to stick with 60Hz because 120Hz for the stuff I do it's really not gonna make a difference.

But the 6K resolution that does make a difference. Anyway, I'm babbling on. There's just so much to talk about with these monitors. I'll leave a link to everything down in the description. Make sure to check out my wallpaper packs. It's a great way to support build the channel and yeah, hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe for more.