Prone to Scratches These utensils, even though they are made from the highest quality of materials, are still prone to getting scratches from time to time. Selling a monitor without a stand seems like madness, but if Apple included the Pro Stand and bumped the XDR's price by $1,000, anyone who instead wanted to wall-mount their monitor – which, given that a lot of Mac Pros are going to end up in editing suites and the like, could be quite a proportion of the market – would be rightly annoyed at being charged for an unwanted high-end stand. Price Even though the price of this one is a little bit lower than that of the thermal pro, it is still expensive compared to other alternatives. And it depends on what you compare them to - other golf balls or to what premium balls used to cost. But hey, that's Apple we suspect that this would be an inelegant solution in its view. Answer (1 of 2): Why are Titleist Pro V1 golf balls so expensive I guess it depends on how you count. Of course, what Apple could have done is ship the XDR with a basic stand like the one on an iMac, with the Pro Stand as an optional extra. We've had a bit of a look around, though, and there doesn't seem to be any sort of VESA stand that looks as good or works anything like as nicely as the Pro Stand does. If you're not sold on the Pro Stand then there is of course another option: the $199 VESA mount that you can use to attach your Pro Display XDR to the wall mount or desk stand of your choice.
Still, though, selling a $5,000 monitor that doesn't have a stand at all feels like a bit of a misfire.
