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27-Inch LED Cinema Display Coming Tomorrow Alongside iMacs and Mac Pros?
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It may be overpriced now, but when it first came out, it was quite competitively priced.
I'll second that. I don't recall having any reflection issues with my old Nanao monitor.
In October 2009, they released an entirely new iMac redesign w/o a media event. Last month the released the first major redesign of the MacMini in 5 years, again w/o a media event - even though it could have been done during WWDC (aka WWiOSDC).
This is the new Apple Consumer Electronics, they only use their 'magic bullets' to get the word out about iDevices and iOS. Everything else it seems is excrement under their fingernails. It has been 18 months since they had a media event for non iDevices, and that was the minor introduction of the 17 inch MacBook Pro.
Finally planning to buy a Mac desktop... I'm really hoping that they're not raising prices and/or handicapping the entry-level iMac with another Core 2 chip. 
...I might have to save a little more if that happens. I also hope the new trackpad tech doesn't slip past like the new AppleTV rumors did at WWDC.
...I might have to save a little more if that happens. I also hope the new trackpad tech doesn't slip past like the new AppleTV rumors did at WWDC.
Again, stocks of these machines are running low NOW. You're talking about two entire product lines being unavailable for an entire quarter.
Maybe it won't be tomorrow, but it will be closer to a week or two than a month or two.
WOW! Can't hardly believe someone has never heard of the renowned Starcraft before. It has been one of the most successful franchise titles ever. In fact, there was a story on TWIT podcast about how most of S. Korea and some others are just bonkers over it like most people are with WoW.
Starcraft 2 already has over 800,000 pre-orders for it. Just wait and watch this be another HUGE hit.
do we really need a 27' display? and faster iMacs? NO. what we need is a proper new iPhone and lots of love.
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Finally planning to buy a Mac desktop... I'm really hoping that they're not raising prices and/or handicapping the entry-level iMac with another Core 2 chip.
The entry level iMac is going to have Core 2 Duo. The reason is simple : If it has Core i3, it's going to have suck for graphics as the entry level iMac uses a IGP these days. Unless they go dedicated on the entire line, which I'd very much doubt.
Look at the Mac Mini and the MB/MBP. It's going to be an nVidia 320M+Core 2 Duo combo.
Secret underground base. No lights. But remote control nuclear submarines...
A dark room and a glossy screen makes a great mirror. (Yes, I've tried it. try looking at any dark image area and there you are, staring at yourself) If glossy is the only way to get true color accuracy, why do high-end color reference displays have matte screens and hoods? Final word: Glossy screens SUCK! That goes for anything except something small and manageable (ie. you can cup your hands around it to prevent glare if needed) like an iphone. If they made an iphone in a matte glass (which Apple could do it they wanted) display I'd buy that too.
I cant believe I'm saying this but PLEASE YES.
So why do games run faster in Cedega and WINE on Linux?
So why do games run faster in Cedega and WINE on Linux?
Huh. On my 27" iMac Aperture's HUD gets pinned quite nicely to the left, the "film strip" pins at the bottom, and my camera's images (from a Canon 40D, so 3:2) fit quite well with very little 'wasted" space in the resulting rectangle. With a more square source image, I'd either crop to 4x6 since that's what we'd print to (when we print) anyway, or I'd give the adjustments bricks a little more "breathing room" and expand that pinned HUD horizontally to take up some of the "excess" room.
I don't know. I think that, in general, interfaces are flexible enough and the resolution on these screens is fine enough that the specific aspect ratio isn't overly important, so long as it doesn't go much wider than 2:1.
I'm in a dark room right now with my Macbook 13" with a glossy screen. Making the entire screen black but still backlit, I don't see even 1 hint of a reflection in it.
IMHO, I don't mind the glossy screens, although I'd prefer matte as well when doing any kind of photo work.
In your dark room, put a real image on the screen with dark blacks and bright whites. Now look at the dark blacks.
If you don't see your own reflection you have some odd vision problem. The reason you don't see your reflection in a dark room with the lights out is that the room is dark. You need some light source, and since in a truly dark room where you are actually doing something on your computer the only light source is the computer, your image will reflect nicely back to the screen and from the screen back to your eyeballs. It's basic physics, no sense debating it!
Inside, glossy screens actually work best in a well-but-evenly-lit room. They work 1000x better outside, too (the matte coating makes it so you can't reorient the display to avoid the glare from the sun; the glossy surface can be shifted so that it is not reflecting the sun and you don't get an off-angle "haze" of reflected light).
Is this still a problem? Last I'd heard it had been corrected around April or so.
I have no yellow tint on my 27" iMac. Went through all the evals right when it came out of the box.
Nope, not seeing it. This browser window is whitish, my background is blackish (deep purples/blues and blacks), making each take up half the screen, nothing at all.
I do see the reflection when I'm in the sun, but in a completely dark room, the backlight drowns it out.