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15inch LCD Discontinued?

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It would be great if the monitors could swivel 90 degrees as well. Web pages and especially PDFs would be awesome to view that way.

Of course, with a 19" widescreen, you could pretty easily view two side by side pages in the horizontal ratio.

Doesn't seem like it would be that hard to do...they could even tie it in with a cool transition effect using Quartz (transform, rotation, gennie type stuff).

Plus then they can animate the iMac even better in the commercials. ;)
 
I'm amused.

The thread has been talk about both the 15" iMac and 15" Studio Display. Since they are very much two different displays, Apple can discontinue one without discontinuing the other.

Having said that, I suspect the initial scenario will be the 15" & 22" displays will go away with probably an addition of a 19" display. This should also cause price drops on the 17" and 23" displays.

The 15" iMac will take longer to go away possibly. But then again it would be cheaper for them to have one display for the whole product line. A 19" display on the iMac will take longer to appear if it ever does. (IMO)

As a side note, I'm betting on at least a $1000 US price cut in the 23" display before the end of January. I want that plus whatever the first revision is of the powermac made next year.
 
Just to everyone with a frikken money budget:
the 17" is fine. a 19" screen would be over kill.
Killing the 15" for a 17 and 19" replacement is IMO a bad idea.
When schools are leaving you because of price and lack of choice You Don't want to take away models under Any Cost.
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
Just to everyone with a frikken money budget:
the 17" is fine. a 19" screen would be over kill.
Killing the 15" for a 17 and 19" replacement is IMO a bad idea.
When schools are leaving you because of price and lack of choice You Don't want to take away models under Any Cost.
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I can see where you're coming from and you may have a valid point. However, I would imagine schools would go for the eMac as it has less moving parts and kids wont fling it around.

I like the idea of a 19" iMac. I don't think it's too much, I think it's great.
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
Just to everyone with a frikken money budget:
the 17" is fine. a 19" screen would be over kill.
Killing the 15" for a 17 and 19" replacement is IMO a bad idea.
When schools are leaving you because of price and lack of choice You Don't want to take away models under Any Cost.
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How is a 19 overkill?
Broad brush statement like that does not work. It may be overkill for some, for others it helps when they do work like video editing and graphics.

Though I do agree with you dropping the 15" LCD would be a dumb idea. My guess is they are going to have all the LCD displays eventually with the swing arm like the iMacs have. 15"s probably be first.
 
In our district (San Diego Unified) the Macs of choice are the eMac and older CRT iMacs (price being a big issue...these two solutions fit the bill 80% of the time)

Our purchasing dept. hasn't seen any rush on the new iMac (lump stick rectangle) ever since it came out.

At the IT dept., where I work, I'm on a Cinema Display. I'm the only Mac around, and, along with my Think Different posters all over the place, creates quite a sensation and a lot of drooling. How fun to see the IBM and DELL heads go nuts. :p

That said, for home use, I always was attracted to the new iMac, but waited on purpose because I just
*knew* that line up begged for a bigger screen. And it happened, and I'm very pleased. Now, an all-in-one iMac with a 19"? Well, I didn't buy the 17" yet, so we'll see after MacWorld in January...who knows, why not? I had friends who were downright ADAMANT about Apple never going from 15 to 17 on the new iMac (it would look goofy, it would fall over, it would be too expensive, etc.) Well, it doesn't, it didn't, and it's not.:)

My dream? Give me a 19" all-in-one iMac with (dare I say it?) a redesigned base (color?) and it'll be in my house before Steve gets back on his jet.

Oh, heck...even with the base it has now, funny little (big!) igloo white thing that it is.:p
 
15" LCD has been EOL for 6 months!!!

What are you guys tsalking about??? Only now EOL?

It has not been purchasable in Australia since April.... not to mention it has been marked EOL here around the same time...
 
Re: 15" LCD has been EOL for 6 months!!!

Originally posted by digitalrampage
What are you guys tsalking about??? Only now EOL?

It has not been purchasable in Australia since April.... not to mention it has been marked EOL here around the same time...
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Yes, I was just having this discussion with my father but as per Spy Mac it looks like they were available on Apple Store in the US.

Can anyone comfirm if you could by direct from Apple if you were a retail store???
 
Re: Re: 15" LCD has been EOL for 6 months!!!

Originally posted by madamimadam


Yes, I was just having this discussion with my father but as per Spy Mac it looks like they were available on Apple Store in the US.

Can anyone comfirm if you could by direct from Apple if you were a retail store???
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Resellers can not order these monitors anymore. Check out the other thread I started.

iJon
 
Re: Re: Re: 15" LCD has been EOL for 6 months!!!

Originally posted by iJon

Resellers can not order these monitors anymore. Check out the other thread I started.

iJon
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A link to that thread would have been nice
:)
 
The 17" iMac widescreen display is gorgeous. Fits the "widescreen-is-the-future" marketing scheme, is bright, sturdy, easy to read with a great resolution. For a home user it would be more than enough.

A TRUE 16:9 aspect 19" iMac would be a great option for film/video editing (so long as FW keeps advancing in bandwidth and drives gain stability), graphic design (throw pallettes on one side), audio engineering (so long as all audio-related glitches reported in OS X are ironed out and Digi/Motu/Emagic all come together on the Audio Unit plug in standard), and for the affluent for whom money is no object.

There was a poster on a previous thread who mentioned a great idea: have a 19" widescreen monitor-only system on a second dome base/arm set-up. Now this is not as stupid as it might seem at first. The second dome could be connected to the first via Gigabit Ethernet and have additional expansion capabilities (2nd optical drive bay, PCI card slot [would be tight, I know], hard drive, etc). The desktop footprint of the two would be about the same as a tower, but broken up in half. A video editor or recording studio engineer who spends a TON of time working on stuff in a home office environment would love twin displays that are fully articulatable at any height or angle. The system would only draw a few from the tower camp--even with the auxiliary dome, expansion would be far more limited.

Of course, if the next version or two of OS X ships with native clustering capabilities for any multithreaded application (which I pray Apple is either working on themselves or planning to buy out a company that is), then just two 19" 16:9 iMacs clustered via gigabit would do the job quite nicely.

1.25 G4 CPUs, DDR RAM, better video support, and faster mobo with these goes w/o saying...

As far as standard prop-em-up Apple displays go, a true 16:9 19" would be a home run--great for movie watching for the masses, and great for video editing/monitoring @ proper aspect. The industry needs them. Heck, even non-Apple video editors might use them via DVI. If you build it, they will come.

Another series of whispy pipe dreams...
 
Originally posted by D*I*S_Frontman
The 17" iMac widescreen display is gorgeous. Fits the "widescreen-is-the-future" marketing scheme, is bright, sturdy, easy to read with a great resolution. For a home user it would be more than enough.

A TRUE 16:9 aspect 19" iMac would be a great option for film/video editing (so long as FW keeps advancing in bandwidth and drives gain stability), graphic design (throw pallettes on one side), audio engineering (so long as all audio-related glitches reported in OS X are ironed out and Digi/Motu/Emagic all come together on the Audio Unit plug in standard), and for the affluent for whom money is no object.

There was a poster on a previous thread who mentioned a great idea: have a 19" widescreen monitor-only system on a second dome base/arm set-up. Now this is not as stupid as it might seem at first. The second dome could be connected to the first via Gigabit Ethernet and have additional expansion capabilities (2nd optical drive bay, PCI card slot [would be tight, I know], hard drive, etc). The desktop footprint of the two would be about the same as a tower, but broken up in half. A video editor or recording studio engineer who spends a TON of time working on stuff in a home office environment would love twin displays that are fully articulatable at any height or angle. The system would only draw a few from the tower camp--even with the auxiliary dome, expansion would be far more limited.

Of course, if the next version or two of OS X ships with native clustering capabilities for any multithreaded application (which I pray Apple is either working on themselves or planning to buy out a company that is), then just two 19" 16:9 iMacs clustered via gigabit would do the job quite nicely.

1.25 G4 CPUs, DDR RAM, better video support, and faster mobo with these goes w/o saying...

As far as standard prop-em-up Apple displays go, a true 16:9 19" would be a home run--great for movie watching for the masses, and great for video editing/monitoring @ proper aspect. The industry needs them. Heck, even non-Apple video editors might use them via DVI. If you build it, they will come.

Another series of whispy pipe dreams...
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Sounds a bit too costly for my pocket.
 
In Belgium the biggest apple relesser is cleaning out his 15" imac stock, g3 and g4...

No word about the 15" LCD...
 
well....

Considering that You can get a flat panel iMac with CD-RW for $999 at mac mall now, this rumor seems to hold some truth. Sorry if somebody mentioned this already :(

:)
 
When I poked at Apple's website today, the 15" [LCD] Studio Display is no longer available for ordering.

Earlier this week, it was still available. So I guess this confirms this rumor.
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
I STILL think 17" is huuge..
so 19" will be overkill. I say keep the 15" cause the prices are way to high anyway.
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totally agreed

how many have seen the 17 inch? it really is quite a good screen
 
Originally posted by jefhatfield


totally agreed

how many have seen the 17 inch? it really is quite a good screen
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I LOVE my 17" and do not NEED anything more but there are some programs I use that thrive on screen realestate and I really WANT more space.

When the new PowerBooks come out and I get one, I will be running Dual Screen so my problems will be solved
:)
 
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