Digital Hub Anyone?
Hasn't anyone seen the Dell plasma screens that they offer as an option with their computers? This 30" screen might be an answer to Dell.
But, the apple display would be better in several ways. First, the Dell plasma screen is really a television screen that hooks up to the computer. Apple's monitor would be a true computer monitor. Second, being a television screen, the Dell plasmas have low resolution. While apple may not have a 3200x2000 resolution on the new 30" screens, they will probably have at least the HD resolution of the 23". Third, with low resolution, the Dell screen can't offer many windows at the same time. With an HD 30" screen, a user could have many apps open at once, good for video work, programming internet sites, or--the Apple digital hub experience. You could have movies (or television) going at the same time that you surfed the internet, wrote email, or did a Keynote presentation. If the monitor were mounted on the living room wall, someone else could watch a movie on part of the screen while you did some work on another part, or you could expand the movie to the full screen, and listen to the 6.1 audio thanks to the Apple's optical digital out. IMHO, this is as much a product meant to put the apple computer into each family's living room as it is targeted at the video/photo/sound/coding professional.
