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Gloor

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Hi,
as some of you noticed I have new 30" ACD. It's my first 30" screen and I have few questions I would like to ask those of you who use 30" for some time.

1) I feel a bit dizzy (not much but just slightly) is that normal before I get used to it?
2) I sit around 90cm from the screen - is that enough or should it be more?
3) What color profile should I use? HD cinema or Adobe RGB? I don't do editing as I work with Maya and do animation etc. but I would like to have the best out of this screen so any advice how to achieve that would help. P.s.: I have never done color calibration so keep in mind that I am a noob when it comes to that. :)))

Thanks for help guys.
 
It is a bit overwhelming isn't it? ;)

It took me a couple of weeks to adjust, and I still prefer web-browsing on my PowerBook. I sit about 70-90cm from the screen and I'm fine most of the time. I do use zoom (Command-Option-8) quite often when entering small text.

I use the supplied Cinema Display profile.
 
Weird thing happened and I don't know how to solve it. I was trying your Command-Option-8 thing but I wasn't sure what option key is (alt, control or shift) so I tried them one by one and then pressed all of them. Well, my colors inverted now and everything looks like if I was using Sepia (not sure if its the right filter) and I don't know how to put it back. I tried restart and I tried changing color profiles for the screen but nothing happened. Anyone now what it is???

Pic:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/9975/img0923ab6.jpg
 
Weird thing happened and I don't know how to solve it. I was trying your Command-Option-8 thing but I wasn't sure what option key is (alt, control or shift) so I tried them one by one and then pressed all of them. Well, my colors inverted now and everything looks like if I was using Sepia (not sure if its the right filter) and I don't know how to put it back. I tried restart and I tried changing color profiles for the screen but nothing happened. Anyone now what it is???

Pic:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/9975/img0923ab6.jpg

Pop into 'Universal Access' and there should be an option for high contrast or something like that to turn it off.

I'm looking to get a 30" tomorrow. But these posts give me doubt, is it really that full on and hard to get used to?
 
It took me about a day and a half to get used to my 30 inch screen. I've had my screen for about 2 weeks now, and don't even think about the size.

I sit about 2 1/2 - 3 feet away from the screen.
 
Weird thing happened and I don't know how to solve it. I was trying your Command-Option-8 thing but I wasn't sure what option key is (alt, control or shift) so I tried them one by one and then pressed all of them. Well, my colors inverted now and everything looks like if I was using Sepia (not sure if its the right filter) and I don't know how to put it back. I tried restart and I tried changing color profiles for the screen but nothing happened. Anyone now what it is???
Sorry :eek:
Command-Alt-Control-8 inverts the screen colours which can be handy on pages with lots of white like Google. Repeating the shortcut puts it back to normal.
Command-Alt-8 zooms the screen. Use Command-Alt-+ or - to zoom in or out. Use Command-Alt-8 again to revert to normal.
 
Command-option-8 to zoom? Doesn't work for me either. I zoom by pressing control and scrolling with the mouse scroll ball.

edit: Oh, now I see. Yep, that works. I still prefer the mouse though.

I don't have a 30-inch display but I'd estimate I sit about 60 cm from the monitor (iMac with 17-inch display and 20-inch cinema display).
 
Pop into 'Universal Access' and there should be an option for high contrast or something like that to turn it off.

I'm looking to get a 30" tomorrow. But these posts give me doubt, is it really that full on and hard to get used to?

Nice, thx for help. Colors are normal now :)

I guess I will have more questions as I am new to mac. I switched 5 months ago and it feels weird as I know a lot about PC and I am technical support for all my friends but I feel like a total noob when it comes to macs. I hope I will learn quickly as I want to as good with macs as I am with pcs :)
 
Still waiting to take the plunge on an ACD 30. (any day now)

How's it going for you? Any graphic glitches, dead pixels?
 
Took me a few days. Truthfully, I had the same adjustment period going from a 19" 1280x1024 to a Dell 2407WFP. Couldn't understand how anyone could use all of the 1920x1200 but once you open things up and start moving things around, it quickly gets swallowed up.

The 30" was really hard on the eyes and I even felt like selling it for the first few days. I sit about 2 feet away from the screen and it's perfect. At this distance, I only have to shift my my LoS slightly to see see the whole desktop. It's quite indispensable now.
 
I've only had mine for 2 days and I got used to it pretty quick. I'm trying to figure out how to increase the mouse sensitivity because I currently do a lot of "lift and reposition" of the mouse to get from one side of the screen to the other.

Haven't looked into it in great detail, but there didn't seem to be anything with a brief review.
 
I'm trying to figure out how to increase the mouse sensitivity because I currently do a lot of "lift and reposition" of the mouse to get from one side of the screen to the other.

Goto to the "Dock," choose "System Preferences" then "Keyboard & Mouse" -- Mouse is adjusted via the center button.
 
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