23 inch apple lcd Good or Bad?

[Mr. Anderson]

I used to use dual crts a lot. I love it, especially when I'm working on Lightwave. I can have the modeler in one window and the layout in the other. I also use Desktop Manager, which gives me virtual screens. So if you use it regularly, you get use to it and its hard to go back to one screen.

As for what I'm getting..... the biggest one I can 😀

I just moved and we haven't sold our house back in DC yet....once that happens, I put in the order. Although the closer to January I get, the more I'm thinking of holding out to see if upgrades come along. That or get a slightly cheaper one so I can buy the dual 23" monitors.

It will all depend on when the house sells.

 

[Santiago]

I bought myself an aluminum 23" display last week, and it's great. I certainly haven't noticed any strange tints to it, pink or otherwise. My only complaint, fairly minor, is the one pixel in the upper right quadrant whose blue component is stuck to on. It's only visible when gaming, fortunately, as pretty much anything else is light enough that it's invisible.

 

[Champale]

Paranoid conspiracy

Ok, I was skeptical of the pinkish tint. So I stopped by the Apple store in Troy, MI today.

Pulled up three identical cnn.com pages on the old-style 17", new 20", and new 23" screens.

I was flabbergasted when lo and behold, the 23" screen truly did have a pink cast. All the text boxes which are pure white on the other screens showed a noticeable difference.

My friend who was with me noticed the same thing. Of course, we're both in advertising and he's a graphic designer but still...

The salesguy claimed he couldn't see a difference but admitted he didn't have a sharp eye for such things.

I don't know how you could have missed it...

So yeah, now I believe!

 

[James_C]

I was flabbergasted when lo and behold, the 23" screen truly did have a pink cast. All the text boxes which are pure white on the other screens showed a noticeable difference.

Just to confirm, are you saying that it was the white areas that showed a pink cast, as the 23" that I saw on Friday it was the brushed metal effect round the windows that was a pink tint. The white areas on say a blank word document appeared more pure white than the old style 23" LCD displays, however that may be just because they are brighter.

 

[ijimk]

I know this is slightly off topic but i bought a new 20 inch and it is amazing i would not trade it for the world. I would have got the 23 inch but my wallet was not that deep. I say it is good monitor from what i have seen in apple stores. 😀

 

[Champale]

Clarification

Here's what I mean by the text boxes (pardon me if there's a technical term for it.) On the CNN home page, every section like Politics, US, World, etc. seems to have its own area with what should be white space around it. On the 23" I could discern a noticeable pink tinge in those areas.

However, on the new 20" display as well as the old 17" model, the same areas were pure white.

Hope that helps.

 

[BigEvan23]

I kinda agree

I have a hard time spanning on my powerbook 15 inch and 23 inch cinema hd. They would have to be lined up directly in order make it usable or perhaps just using 15 inch display for palates or something. I just use the pb in mirror mode and have the 23 inch set up as the only active display. Once I get my G5 I think Im going to throw another 23 inch in there and go for the dual 23 setup with the dual g5. DUAL DUAL hmmm...I like the sound of that!

Evan

 

[Diatribe]

< Slightly off topic>

While I know that many people do have a two monitor set-up, and I guess you get use to it, while I was in looking at the 23" monitors in John Lewis we had it connected to my powerbook in dual screen mode to compare the two screens. It was driving me mad opening an application and then dragging the document window to the other screen.

It must drive people nuts setting up all their documents over two screens. As I have not played with this much, perhaps their is an easy way of setting a dual screen system up. How does everyone else do this?

I also found it confusing watch my mouse disappear from one screen to the other. If I lost sight of the mouse, it kept taking me a while to work out which screen it was on.

I am sure you get use to this and it becomes second nature, but I must confess it put me off from getting two screens.

I must admit I hate it when the two screens have different sizes, it drives me nuts. But when they are the same size I absolutely love it. You can do so many different things like keeping all the other stuff like iChat, Safari, iTunes, etc. on one and work on a picture etc. on the main one. Or you can watch TV on one and work on the other. Stuff like that. I adored mine when I had them. Now I am down to a 12" Powerbook... oh well.

 

[Diatribe]

I used to use dual crts a lot. I love it, especially when I'm working on Lightwave. I can have the modeler in one window and the layout in the other. I also use Desktop Manager, which gives me virtual screens. So if you use it regularly, you get use to it and its hard to go back to one screen.

As for what I'm getting..... the biggest one I can 😀

I just moved and we haven't sold our house back in DC yet....once that happens, I put in the order. Although the closer to January I get, the more I'm thinking of holding out to see if upgrades come along. That or get a slightly cheaper one so I can buy the dual 23" monitors.

It will all depend on when the house sells.

I guess I would wait if you are not going to get it in October. It seems pretty obvious that something is coming beginning of next year. That is IF you can wait. If you cannot, just get it. As always 😀
But be sure to be envied 😉

 

[jaromski]

< Slightly off topic>

While I know that many people do have a two monitor set-up, and I guess you get use to it, while I was in looking at the 23" monitors in John Lewis we had it connected to my powerbook in dual screen mode to compare the two screens. It was driving me mad opening an application and then dragging the document window to the other screen.

It must drive people nuts setting up all their documents over two screens. As I have not played with this much, perhaps their is an easy way of setting a dual screen system up. How does everyone else do this?

I also found it confusing watch my mouse disappear from one screen to the other. If I lost sight of the mouse, it kept taking me a while to work out which screen it was on.


I am sure you get use to this and it becomes second nature, but I must confess it put me off from getting two screens.

The best thing I have found for this is the "virtual desktop" concept. It really irks me that OS X doesn't have this concept built into the desktop; it can be found on KDE/Gnome desktops and it is really quite useful. But more importantly I have really become addicted to the virtual desktop concept because it allows me to logically group applications on each desktop. internet apps, cad, financial stuff, etc. all go onto their own desktop. Then you can program hotkeys to toggle between your desktops. The logical extension here is to have the same behavior for "real" desktops. You know quick key between your active desktop rather than moving windows back and forth, etc.

Now I know that OS X has Expose and all that is really neat eye candy but I still don't think it is as uncluttered as the virtual desktop approach. There is some "search" still required to toggle between your apps that you don't have with virtual desktops. I mean if you set up everything on the same desktop all the time then you find yourself memorizing the key combos to get what you need to get without even thinking. And isn't that the whole idea? 🙂


Perhaps I am off topic on your off topic, but what I am trying to get at is that virtual desktops really kill the need for separate displays in my opinion. Why not blow the wad on a 23" cinema and just virtualize your desktop? Unless you have the money to blow (it does add quite a bit to the WOW factor) and you _NEED_ two full desktops concurrently then I think it is overkill. That's not to say I wouldn't do it if I had the cash, but that isn't a good modus operandi when dealing with apple hardware. Can get you in the poor house quick...

jaromski