But with Apple we have to pay a $199 premium, but the funny part is if you pay $199 for the stand and buy one of the best VESA stands / monitor arms it will still cost less than their stand! The $6,000 Mac ProĪpple also announced a $6,000 (to start) Mac Pro computer. Also notice that the $199 VESA mount adapter got its own slide, but the Apple Monitor stand shares a slide with it.Īlso why are we paying $199 for a VESA adapter? The reason we have standards like VESA is so we can use whatever stand we want with our monitor if we choose to do so. I single hole in the stand and no real cable routing in the back? So again please tell me why this stand is $999?!Įven when the Apple rep was talking about the stand during their press event he said the price so quickly and skipped to the next slide, even fumbled his words a little bit. All things that a $100 monitor arm can do! Also look at the cable management, its horrible. It allows you to adjust the monitor up and down, adjust the angle, and switch the monitor into portrait mode. Yes you are reading that headline correctly, Apple is trying to sell us a $999 monitor stand! Yesterday at their WWDC 2019 event Apple announced their new Mac Pro, Pro XDR Display, and yes a $999 monitor stand! Let’s just skip over the fact that the monitor itself is $4999 (without a stand), but please tell me how you justify a monitor stand being $999?įrom what it looks like the stand is a piece of metal.