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Intro

One of these is a computer. And one is Apple’s new Studio Display. But which is which? We invited several iFixiters who have never seen the insides of these devices to guess.  

Last week we got a little ahead of ourselves and popped the Studio Display open during our Mac Studio teardown—we’ve got the link in the description if you missed it—but we’re back for a deeper dive into this dense display.

Opening Procedure

This Display doesn’t just look like an iMac, it opens like one too. An iMac opening tool makes short work of the splittable foam adhesive, and, just like the M1 iMac, there’s no “chin” to rest the display on. 

Safely on its back, let’s use some heavy duty suction cups to lift the display just enough to free the display connectors. And here’s the reason so many were fooled, it looks a lot like an Intel iMac in here.

Camera

Like a kid in a candy store, I’m not sure where to start, but since everyone is talking about it, let’s grab that disappointing webcam first. Every single review says the camera quality is terrible. It’s easy to blame the hardware. But is it really the camera’s fault? Little plastic shield, some copper tape, and this 12MP Ultra Wide camera pops right out. 

The iPhone 11 selfie camera from a couple years ago is also a 12MP Ultrawide and they look… pretty much identical. Hardware-wise, a 3-year-old sensor is perfectly capable of packing a better punch than all these reviewers are seeing—megapixels aren’t all that matter. Apple says they’re working on a fix, and it’s entirely possib