One of our favorite third-party displays is Alogic’s Clarity, a great-looking premium 27-inch 4K monitor that can pivot from landscape to portrait orientations and boasts a back-mounted USB-C hub. Read our full Alogic Clarity Monitor review. 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 (3840-x-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 (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 entry-level Clarity.
Apple’s Studio Display can go brighter (600 nits versus 400), but Alogic’s
