Apple 30inch LCD?

[dapperlad]

30 inch - PLASMA?

Would there be any advantages/disadvantages to a Plasma-based display, compared to an LCD display?

 

[CountZero]

LCD display can do much higher fidelity than plasma. Plasma can't do true black (not that LCD does but LCD is more than a few shades better) and the inherent noise level of plasma does not suit static images (i.e. computer display).

 

[nagromme]

Some figures

Some figures...

A 30" 2400x1500 display would be 16:10.

The view area would be 25.44x15.9".

It would be 94 DPI and display 3.6 megapixels. 88% more workspace than the original 22" display.

 

[scarecrow]

I would pay up to $3,500 for that.....

 

[flashfil]

30"er oh yeah!

I posted this around september last year.

I hope it comes true

 

[Flynnstone]

Look at all that un used real estate on the back of the cinema displays. Putting the processor and drives on the back would make a very small footprint computer!
Wasn't there a rumor about a long thin circuit board being quoted?

 

[JGowan]

Why is this too big?

How many people do you know that have dual displays? Tons. I do. A 23"HD and a 21"CRT. I saw on spymac.com recently a guy who had TWO 23"HD displays. The need is there for many graphic professionals who would like more room for all they want to do.

Also, as many have said here, once the day of work is through, just move the chair out of the way, turn the lights down a bit and settle in for a nice evening of movies. A 30" widescreen would replace my 35" panasonic easily.

 

[movabi]

Question about apple flat screens

I have 3 monitors... one is 17" apple flat screen... a 21" crt... and a tv... I'm starting to use my mac as a glorified dvd player. My question is this... while I'm watching my movie, is there any way to turn off the 17" display or sleep it without effecting my tv play through? I have a button on my 21" radius but the power switch on the 17" sleeps the machine... any body know how to do this? It kinda peeves me that apple takes out the manual control of its hardware.
Thanks
movabi

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

Originally posted by Flynnstone
Look at all that un used real estate on the back of the cinema displays. Putting the processor and drives on the back would make a very small footprint computer!
Wasn't there a rumor about a long thin circuit board being quoted?

This is a very good point ,except for the higher cpu speeds but they could allways just mount a fan on the cpu. They have powerbooks so why not a 30 inch Lcd screen that just happens to have the computer built into it. But it would have to be upgradable and then have expansions for the pro user. on 2nd thought this would only work if you were to do another all in one nonupgradable imac like device. We will just have to keep waiting and hope what ever they show will be awsome. ( i'm sure it will)

 

[JGowan]

Re: Question about apple flat screens

Originally posted by movabi
... while I'm watching my movie, is there any way to turn off the 17" display or sleep it without effecting my tv play through?

Hopefully someone can you give you a real way of doing this. What I do is have a BLACK.pct file handy (1"x1"@72dpi) that I pop in as a desktop. Helps a lot.

 

[movabi]

thanks for the tip!

I was kinda thinkin' that direction as well... to bad we have to use a work-a-round. I was wondering if there was some kind of third party app that let's you select certain monitors for sleep / screen effects. It would be a nice set of features if Apple would incorporate them into energy saver (won't hold my breath)...