One of our favorite third-party displays is Alogic's Clarity, a great-looking premium 27-inch 4K monitor that canpivot from landscape to portrait orientations and boasts a back-mounted USB-C hub. Read our full Alogic Clarity Monitor review (fave.co/3Vjy7Eu).
Alogic has now added two new monitors to its Clarity range: the Clarity Pro and Clarity Pro Touch.
The Clarity Pro adds an all-important webcam to the display. The Clarity Pro Touch also has a webcam, but adds a touchscreen display that you can use much like an iPad with on-screen tap, swipe, slide, and pinch.
SCREEN PIXELS AND COLORS
Of course, the most important consideration when buying a display is the picture quality.
As with the original Clarity, the Alogic Clarity Pro and Pro Touch offer a 4K (3840x-2160 pixels) screen, capable of displaying over a billion colors at a 60Hz refresh rate.
Apple's own monitors offer 5K or 6K resolutions, but at a cost-the Apple Studio Display, fave.co/3E5nXk4 (5120 by 2880 resolution) costs a third more than the top-end Clarity Pro Touch and lacks the touchscreen functionality. The Studio Display is twice the price of the entrylevel Clarity.
Apple's Studio Display can go brighter (600 nits versus 400), but Alogic's display supports HDR (High Dynamic Range) 600 content, which means that the whites of the display are very bright and clear, and the blacks are much deeper, giving the same effect as 600 nits.
The Clarity uses QLED (Quantum Dot LED) screen technology, which helps produce brighter and more vibrant colors than usual.
While the Studio Display offers a higher-end screen, the Alogic Clarity screens will be bright and impressive enough for most users.
The Clarity Pro ($999) and Clarity Pro Touch ($1,199) are both cheaper than the Apple Studio, so if 4K is good enough for you, you get a lot of screen for your money with the Clarity range.
This story is from the September 2023 edition of Macworld.
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